Orwell's Britain
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:30:37 +1000
A national database containing confidential details about every child
in Britain is to be set up by the New Labour government. An identifying
number will be assigned to each child so that the authorities can
access their records. The prophecy of George Orwell has come true not
in 1984 but in 2004.
Details of the shock proposals - affecting all 13.5m children in
Britain under the age of 18 - are contained in cabinet papers leaked to
various papers at the weekend.
All parents will receive letters from the government informing them of
the plan, which will be added to the Children's Bill in the autumn.
Drug testing
The central electronic register will hold information on a child's
school achievements, GP and hospital visits, police and social services
records and home address and other as yet undecided information. Along
with these proposals there are also plans in place for the government
to vaccinate all children with new designer drugs that prevent them
getting drug addiction as adults. But this is new technology that has
no testing or track record of safe use. The fact that our government
are about to use our children as guinea pigs for new untested drugs and
Big-Brother monitoring laws shows how far the Labour government has
descended into tyranny.
The information database will also include information on their
families, such as whether parents are divorced or separated and will
probably include details on their parents' known political opinions and
affiliations. It is current practice that children while at school that
are reported for making the most innocuous of so called 'racist'
comments by a NUT extremist teacher are logged on secret files held by
the headteacher and stored in the Local Education Authority offices.
This file is held on the child until they are 24 years old. If the
school refuses to undertake the reporting procedure, as enacted under
the findings of the McPherson report, then the CRE can refuse to issue
them school funds held under control by the CRE. Even though no law has
been passed to legitimise this system of Gestapo like secret reporting
of children, the government has been using it for at least five years.
Sins of the parents
The planned database will also be designed to identify problem
relatives, including aunts and uncles who have a history of alcoholism
or drug misuse. It will be filed under each child's "unique identifying
number". The sins of the parents then become the sins of the children.
The original sin of being born poor, white and working class in a
shattered mining or steel community will now form our part of the
state's control over our children. The secret decision to create a
"universal children's database" was approved by the ministerial
committee on children, young people and families, chaired by Charles
Clarke, the education secretary, last month but kept confidential for
fear of a public outcry.
The government believes that the move will help social services and
police to identify and protect children who are at risk of abuse or
neglect. Though of course the neglect of the state by destroying our
country and our communities that were once vibrant and proud working
communities now derelict and abandoned and that cause our children to
become drug addicts out of despair will not be addressed.
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Restricted minutes of the meeting reveal that ministers have privately
agreed to the national children's database, rejecting proposals for the
system to cover only those children thought to be at risk.
The minutes record: "Turning to the question of who the database should
cover, the minister for children, young people and families (Margaret
Hodge) said that all children should be included. This fitted with the
prevention agenda and reduced the risk of stigmatisation. Information
collected could also be used to support service planning and delivery."
Parents would not have access to the database but will be able to apply
to see details held on their children under the Data Protection Act.
Whether they will be able to change those details if they are wrong is
another matter.
Computer failures - human criminals
Ministers at the meeting, included Margaret Hodge, Paul Boateng, Lord
Filkin, Estelle Morris and Alun Michael, raised concerns about the
technical challenge of setting up the database. The government has been
hit by the failure of several new computer systems, including the Child
Support Agency, Inland Revenue and the Criminal Records Bureau. These
are the criminals that will one day face trial for this vile scheme.
The government has commissioned a feasibility study into the plans and
held negotiations with several companies including Experian, which runs
national credit-checking services. Perhaps someone should investigate
the financial links between Experian and donations made by its parent
company GUS PLC (owners of Burberry and Argos Retail) to the Labour
party election funds before Orwell's nightmare becomes New Labour
policy for children.
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