tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post6961435609485570551..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Banks in Bad CompanyNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-92111799284250630232008-12-03T20:55:00.000+00:002008-12-03T20:55:00.000+00:00The most telling statement ever made about the mis...The most telling statement ever made about the misuse of state power was Kafka's The Trial. A very chilling statement, the sense of oppression was overwhelming. The system is unbeatable, closer and closer this cloud creeps towards us, cloying, nauseating, the sense of helplessness grows. We sit at the door to the law and wonder, what, when, is this for us.<BR/>In Michael Dobbs book Winston's War the little Jewish barber, his life ordered and sliced by mindless bureaucracy shrugs and says it's the system.<BR/>After years of misuse by people, he points to the abstract.<BR/>Today, do we head down there, the road of destitution, to a land of abstract unaccountability.<BR/>All here know the short journey from idiocy to madness, others do not, it may yet be our downfall.<BR/><BR/>Then Brit decides to have haircut.maltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-64897169724480043642008-12-03T20:15:00.000+00:002008-12-03T20:15:00.000+00:00Thanks for the link to the Standpoint piece Nige, ...Thanks for the link to the Standpoint piece Nige, I especially liked the reference to Revelation (chapter 13):<BR/><BR/>16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark<BR/><BR/>If the introduction of ID cards does become increasingly likely, I'd like to think the public will become more skeptical. I doubt it though. After I've refused to give Jacqui Smith my fingertips and eyeballs, spare a thought for me when I'm detained without charge for 1000 days as a Threat To National Security.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-23098700700281187922008-12-03T17:12:00.000+00:002008-12-03T17:12:00.000+00:00It all seems rather complicated. Why not appoint a...It all seems rather complicated. Why not appoint a drunken benefit cheat to the chairmanship of the now National Bank plc (the National Westminster, as was). That way you could deal with the problem in a single Bill rather than three. My local supermercados are stuffed with cheap booze offers in every aisle - almost a competition as to which company has the most effective suicide strategy, via fizzy cans, big cider bottles or industrial vodka, your choice. The supermarkets aren't going to pay the slightest attention to any new Bill. I suppose the government must have deluded itself that they will.<BR/><BR/>With you all the way on the ID card stuff. Nasty ideas from nasty people, imho. We can only hope the whole thing falls apart due to incompetence.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-5304106336699068792008-12-03T16:02:00.000+00:002008-12-03T16:02:00.000+00:00And you can always say 'Don't you know who I am?' ...And you can always say 'Don't you know who I am?' can't you Dick? Not a card I can play...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-60397935544169908562008-12-03T15:19:00.000+00:002008-12-03T15:19:00.000+00:00ID cards are an abomination for the very same reas...ID cards are an abomination for the very same reason I always refuse to fill in those forms asking about my ethic origin, gender and sexual orientation. It's none of their damn business.Uncle Dick Madeleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01124053234469634414noreply@blogger.com