Another Step Along The Road

A plan to fingerprint elementary school students when they buy lunch has some parents worrying that Big Brother has come to the cafeteria.

They’re right, he has.

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7 Responses to “Another Step Along The Road”

  1. Adrian MacNair on November 5th, 2006 at 7:29 pm

    Brutal.

  2. SUZANNE on November 5th, 2006 at 7:32 pm

    They spend all this money just to hide which kids are poor? That’s just ridiculous.

    And it does seem a little creepy. Why not a system where you swipe a card?

  3. throbbin on November 6th, 2006 at 2:23 am

    I say Hussein should be brought to the United States, and tried in an American court.

    The reason I say this is because I think alot of Americans need to hear what they so easily forget – that the United States was sponsoring his actions and military build-up for their own advantage, and are at least partially redsponsible or what he did with weapons America gave to him.

    A good trial, even in Texas, would remind alot of Americans of the problems with sponsoring evil people for political, economic, or military advantage. And in Texas, he would still get the chair…

  4. throbbin on November 6th, 2006 at 2:24 am

    Whoops, wrong thread (browser malfunction)

  5. balbulican on November 6th, 2006 at 6:03 am

    I think there has to be an excellent excuse for demanding a permanent biometric fora government database at any age, for any reason; sorry, a labour saving device for monitoring school lunches doesn’t cut it.

  6. stageleft on November 6th, 2006 at 7:28 am

    Yeah, that’s the important part of it all, the cost of setting it up — sheesh…….

  7. Adrian MacNair on November 6th, 2006 at 6:59 pm

    In America, money is no object. Unless, of course, it means spending it on blacks or poor white trash.

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