DNA Database Errors

August 27, 2007 Civil Liberties, General News 3

Typical of just about every piece of technology touched by government, the DNA database is as incompetent as the people who mastermind it:

Civil liberties campaigners and MPs have raised doubts about the national DNA database after the Home Office confirmed it contained more than 500,000 false or wrongly recorded names.

And these authoritarian arseholes want to sneak us all onto it. Over my dead body.
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3 Comments

  1. You know, I’d be actively frightened of this government if they were at all competent in any way, shape or form. Now admittedly they have way more scope for really cocking things up in an expensive manner than previous regimes (Hitler and Stalin didn’t have computers, so had to be content with central planning, deranged leaders and governmental over-duplication), but they really take the prize for organisational stupidity.

    Part of this can be laid at the door of one Gordon Brown, who as part of the Gordon and Tony show spent much of his time ensuring that he would be unchallenged when Princess Tony finally arrived at his “Ides of March” moment.

    I reckon that Gordon deliberately manipulated the Home Office funding so as to underfund the prisons system and overfund the Home Office bureaucracy, thus letting the Home Office grow like a weed on a muckheap and at the same time be unable to solve the growing crime problems of the country by locking up criminals.

    This ensured that as political hopefuls climbed up the ranks of Government, they would land in the Home Office tarpit and emerge smelling of failure or get sacked for incompetence, thus disposing of potential leadership rivals.

    Now that he’s the bossman though, Gordon has a problem. He wants loyal lackeys, and way too many are politically suspect Blairites, or hopeless muppets, and he simply hasn’t got enough talent available to clear out the Blair-induced red tape even if he wanted to, which he very likely doesn’t (he’d prefer to have his few years in the sun before the Tories boot him out for good).

    And so we have the New Labour legislation machine, still running at full production, trying to out-do the European Union legislation machine. Reams and reams of laws, regulations, rules and strictures and pretty soon nobody’ll have the least idea what we can and can’t do so the whole bloody lot’ll be largely ignored for the gormless tripe it undoubtedly is.

  2. Longrider,

    you just don’t get it do you? The State is a) acting in our best interests and b) effective at doing so and c) would never do anything nasty or wrong or ever make a mistake or anything.

    Oh wait….

    Seconds till Neil tells us we’re Nazis.

    3… 2… 1…

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