Big Brother Gatsha, he's gonna watch yaSTEFAANS BRÜMMER, Johannesburg | Friday
2/22/02MINISTER of Home Affairs Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Monday called himself a "libertarian" who believes in vigilance "to ensure that once acquired, liberties and freedoms are not placed in jeopardy by subsequent actions of government".
That said, he unveiled Hanis, an information-age tool of social control potentially much more powerful than apartheid's dompas.
Hanis, short for Home Affairs National Identification System, is a R1-billion computer system designed to store and match all South Africans' identity details, photographs and fingerprints.
When an intended complement is rolled out over the next few years - computer-chip "smart card" IDs to replace ID books - the personal information held by the state may include your medical, employment and welfare details, and even some of your movements and spending habits.
South Africans have accepted Hanis without so much as a squeak over the potential invasion of their privacy.
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That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with. It certainly doesn't describe me. But I will say that the name "libertarian" has now been twisted beyond all meaning or usefulness. Credit Bill Maher for delivering the death blow.
Republicans are really basically nothing more than Democrats without the honesty to admit it.
And in many ways, conservatives are statist lifestyle police
intent on forcing their superstitious idea of the good life
on everyone around them. There. That feels better.
Luckily, not all libertarians or conservatives fit
the labels above.