Beware Charlie the Safety Elephant
In an article in The Times justly condemning Charles Clarke for limiting the restitution paid to people falsely found guilty of crimes, Tim Worstall also writes:
On the subject of identity cards [David Blunkett] once said: “No one should fear correct identification.” Those words always remind me of one the more distressing details of the Eichmann trial: how he told his executioner that the fate of those killed in the Holocaust was sealed by their answers to the 1939 census on religious background recorded on paper for a Hollerith machine, an early mechanical computer. Quite literally, their cards were marked.
(Thanks to No2ID for the tip.)
pax et bonum
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