:D It`s neither racist or sexiest its just plain stupid. Who says everybody is stupid or unintelligent ? What makes you so intelligent that you think nobody else is ?
Democracy is about majority rule. Politicians will have to come up with policies & ideas that WE the public will have to agree to. Intelligence has nothing to do with it.
Its true to say that the politicians have completely failed the nation & that they arn`t coming up with any policies or ideas worth voting on, it`s one of the reasons people dont vote.
As for ID cards. Dont be a Dog & get led round by the nose !!
ID cards will not protect you from terrorism, crime or anything else for that matter. Its a statement of fact that the 9/11 bombers all had ID cards. Its the main reason they were allowed on the planes !!!
The July bombers here in London would have also had ID cards as they were all British subjects.ID cards are about Governments wanting to control your lives, NOT about anti terror or crime.
It doesn`t work out that only people that have something to hide will not want ID cards. Its about the fact that what i do, were i go, what i read, what i listen to, what i think & what i say are my own Decisions & choices & have nothing to do with this or any Government. Whether your smart enough or not my life is my life & i`m entitled to my privacy whether you like it or not or whether you agree to it or not !
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Did I say anywhere that everybody is stupid or unintelligent? No. On the other hand, intelligence has, in a sense, everything to do with it, since it is so mind bogglingly obvious that certain minorities are more intelligent than the majority. Politics, just like everything else that's imortant, should be handled by people who know and understand what they're talking about. Most of us (myself included) simply don't when it comes to politics. Although some of us to occasionally have the sense not to complain (or even campaign) about what we don't understand. And no, flicking through private eye every few months does not constitute understanding politics. It is a sad fact that democracies have endorsed slavery, capital punishment and all kinds of attrocities at times when there were individuals who thought differently. Majorities are not always correct, in fact it might be reasonable to say that they rarely are. The prime minister's job should be a lottery prize, that'd be a better way of doing it.
And I don't care about terrorists. I care about pubs and I care about keeping 16/17 year olds out of them. That's why I didn't say anything about terrorists, and why I did say something about pubs, and about keeping 16/17 year olds out of them. It'd be nice if this didn't get heated, but maybe it'd help if you actually read my posts rather than reiterating irrelevant (and probably uninformed) nuggets of trivia.
Also, perhaps you'd forgotten but there is still a dusty old piece of legislation in effect which says that what you do, where you go and what you say actually have quite a lot to do with the government. It's called the Law. Perhaps you've heard of it? I don't get people who complain about the government telling them what to do at all. It seems immensely hypocritical, almost like "The government can tell everyone else what they're not allowed to do to me and I expect that to be enforced rigidly, however I am free to do as I like." Why is it that 'majority rule' seems so preoccupied with the individual?
The public are not stupid? Explain glasgow, then. Surely you must accept that the average member of, say, the prometheus society is better informed and more intelligent than the average member of the public?
^ ^ quick note about point 6, if fines are really going to be thousands of pounds, surely the net cost can't be all that much?
