by Rick Lowe
The Punch had an interesting editorial on Monday November 10, 2008 in which they advised the government to abandon the idea of electronic anklets for criminal suspects.
They quoted Mr. Wayne Munroe of the Bahamas Bar Council as saying "There is no point in investing millions of dollars in this garbage anklet system."
Well I'm ambivalent about the anklets but wonder what's more dangerous for our civil liberties, electronic anklets for suspected criminals or finger prints to obtain a Bahamian passport?
What do you think?
Rick what is wrong with both, my vote is for both. The are to many criminal suspects out on bail committing additional crimes. If our judicial system will not keep suspects behind bars then lets know where they are when free. As for fingerprints to obtain a passport, the bigger the fingerprint archive the better. I have no problem with my fingerprints being on file, the only one that will have a problem are persons with something to hide.
Why would you think that only people that have something to hide would object to their finger prints being taken?
I am not a criminal so don’t want to be treated like one.
This news article might help change your mind:
http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2014900.0.routine_fingerprinting_at_heathrow_provokes_outrage.php
Rick, I read the story in the Sunday Herald and still don’t see an argument for persons fingerprints being kept in a data base. I don’t know why you associate having your finger prints taken as treating you as a criminal. To me it is just another means of identifying someone just like having your mug shot on your passport and on file. Anything that makes it easier to apprehend a criminal is fair game to me.
Fair enough for you to put your faith in the state Don’t.
I for one understand that the politicians and bureaucrats are humans just like us, and the less centralised all our personal info is the better for individual sovereignty.
Thanks for stopping by as usual.
I think we should put ankle bracelets on the Politicians until at least one of them shows an interest or, at the very least makes an effort to fixing the so called justice system in the Bahamas !