Be prepared for LHR security to body scan your children

Enterprise_1701C

The sooner they introduce more of these the better.

Why should we be upset about being scanned? Only those that have someone to fear are worried about it.

Same as with ID cards, I was all in favour of them but there will always be those that object as they have plenty to lose, normally they object under the guise of "human rights" but really the last thing they want is to have to identify themselves.

As far as I am concerned they should develop a scanner that envelops the whole of the airport, it will take a few years and will probable involve emitters being built into the walls, but anything that makes it safe for everyone to travel is good.

PeacefulWaters

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Same as with ID cards, I was all in favour of them but there will always be those that object as they have plenty to lose, normally they object under the guise of "human rights" but really the last thing they want is to have to identify themselves.

My objection to ID cards was that I had ID coming out of my ears and the government wanted to charge me £30+ for an extra pointless piece of plastic.

peachyprice

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

My objection to ID cards was that I had ID coming out of my ears and the government wanted to charge me £30+ for an extra pointless piece of plastic.

Which is less than a passport or driving licence, which not everybody wants or needs and are the only other two pieces of photographic ID widely accepted.

Murphy_The_Cat

PeacefulWaters wrote: »

My objection to ID cards was that I had ID coming out of my ears and the government wanted to charge me £30+ for an extra pointless piece of plastic.

My objection was that the the decent folk of society would get one, at an ever increasing cost (who the State isn't bothered about), but the dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals (who the State would like to know about) wouldn't bother and would duck out of the system.

peachyprice

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

My objection was that the the decent folk of society would get one, at an ever increasing cost (who the State isn't bothered about), but the dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals (who the State would like to know about) wouldn't bother and would duck out of the system.

It's compulsory to carry your ID card in many EU countries, if you don't you can be arrested, seems a good way of keeping tabs on those 'dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals' to me.

Ganga

Pollycat wrote: »

At least I managed to spell it correctly. :rotfl:

Pollycat wrote: »

If you have nothing on topic to say, why pick up on a spelling or grammar mistake? :huh:
Actually it was just a simple transposition of two letters next to each other on the keyboard.

You were saying?:rotfl:

Murphy_The_Cat

peachyprice wrote: »

It's compulsory to carry your ID card in many EU countries, if you don't you can be arrested, seems a good way of keeping tabs on those 'dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals' to me.

& of course the dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals all follow what they should be doing ?

p.s. not been into the continental eu for many years and probably won't for many years to come. Its not my country - what rules they make up to suit themselves is up to them. I'm much more interested in what happens within the UK.

peachyprice

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

& of course the dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals all follow what they should be doing ?

No but making the carrying of ID cards compulsory means that they can be stopped and asked to produce at any time, no ID card = trip to the police station, none of this namby pamby PC nonsense we have now.

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

p.s. not been into the continental eu for many years and probably won't for many years to come. Its not my country - what rules they make up to suit themselves is up to them. I'm much more interested in what happens within the UK.

Then you can't complain that we have dross, scum, low lifes, wasters & illegals wandering around with no consequence when ID cards would go a long way to helping the situation.

leylandsunaddict

I'm another that was in favour of ID cards. No passport to travel within the EU and no need to carry your passport around with you while there either.

PeacefulWaters

peachyprice wrote: »

No but making the carrying of ID cards compulsory means that they can be stopped and asked to produce at any time, no ID card = trip to the police station, none of this namby pamby PC nonsense we have now.

Give me namby pamby freedom over Nazi style "show me your papers or I'll lock you up".