Thread: Registry to stay??

Originally Posted by 308

Good and fair point but I fear that the truth will be somewhat obscured by a Daily Mail style PR wave of lies
Once the government (any government) has decided to build something like the register it takes on a momentum of its own - people have budgets to spend, quotas to fill, jobs to protect

I am put in mind of the famous quote from Robocop-

Dick Jones: I had a guaranteed military sale with ED209! Renovation program! Spare parts for 25 years! Who cares if it worked or not!

It is difficult for a bureaucracy to admit that it has made an assumption error and go back to the drawing board. Twinning that drive with the fact that it is hard for the minds of government people to say something like"You know what? we actually want less control over and information on our citizens. Let them have more personal freedom"

I doubt that we will be able to flush the turd that is the register (although I will not stop arguing for it to be so)

I note grimly that given that streak of piss's actions against innocent Muslims in Chch two points seem to have been ignored
1) "lone wolf" style attacks are almost impossible to defend against
2) Tarrant armed himself with the help of incompetent staff in the vetting office not doing sufficient background checks into his referees - surely there should have been a boost in funding and training for back office police staff to stop this happening again?

The register is a politically driven idea that is almost completely pointless and arose from the desire for some of these poll-driven fruitcakes to be seen to be doing something

Perhaps a cartoon is appropriate
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That cartoon is so on point