Comments on: Slippery Italian Slope http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielcwarshaw.com%2Fslippery-italian-slope&seed_title=Slippery+Italian+Slope I'm a Christian leftist eccentric. You figure it out. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:36:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ploafmaster General http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielcwarshaw.com%2Fslippery-italian-slope&seed_title=Slippery+Italian+Slope#comment-5873 Ploafmaster General Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:59:31 +0000 http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/?p=1152#comment-5873 @chriswho: The reason why it alarms me is not that it's a fingerprint census, but that it's restricted to one ethnic group, 90% of which are citizens of Italy. That would be like our country requiring a fingerprint census of an ethnic minority in this country, and nobody else. If it was a census for everybody, it would be more palatable. I'm sure privacy advocates would still take issue with collecting everybody's fingerprints, though, but that's a separate issue. @chriswho: The reason why it alarms me is not that it’s a fingerprint census, but that it’s restricted to one ethnic group, 90% of which are citizens of Italy.

That would be like our country requiring a fingerprint census of an ethnic minority in this country, and nobody else.

If it was a census for everybody, it would be more palatable. I’m sure privacy advocates would still take issue with collecting everybody’s fingerprints, though, but that’s a separate issue.

]]> By: chriswho http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielcwarshaw.com%2Fslippery-italian-slope&seed_title=Slippery+Italian+Slope#comment-5872 chriswho Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:42:21 +0000 http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/?p=1152#comment-5872 While it may prove to be a slippery slope, I wouldn't jump to such conclusions yet. I don't have any issues with a fingerprint census. If you don't commit a crime, there is no concern. When/if they start rounding up the gypsies, housing them together, etc, then there is cause for concern. If you would like to be concerned about that, look at China. A friend of mine who is a missionary there told of the "sanitation" the country has been going through for a couple years now prepping for the international exposure for the Olympics. Literally rounding up and jailing all homeless OR handicapped (mental or physical) before olympic representatives came through and viewed the city (talk about a strange public relations campaign). Amazing. While it may prove to be a slippery slope, I wouldn’t jump to such conclusions yet. I don’t have any issues with a fingerprint census. If you don’t commit a crime, there is no concern.

When/if they start rounding up the gypsies, housing them together, etc, then there is cause for concern. If you would like to be concerned about that, look at China. A friend of mine who is a missionary there told of the “sanitation” the country has been going through for a couple years now prepping for the international exposure for the Olympics. Literally rounding up and jailing all homeless OR handicapped (mental or physical) before olympic representatives came through and viewed the city (talk about a strange public relations campaign). Amazing.

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