Have You Seen This White Man? January 13, 2008
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The Boston DEA office wants to give him a free stay at the Federal graybar hotel. And they say he’s white.
What’s the Point of Prisons Then? January 13, 2008
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Prisoners ‘to be chipped like dogs’
Ministers are planning to implant “machine-readable” microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.
Amid concerns about the security of existing tagging systems and prison overcrowding, the Ministry of Justice is investigating the use of satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor criminals.
But, instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scanable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record.
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The move is in line with a proposal from Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), that electronic chips should be surgically implanted into convicted paedophiles and sex offenders in order to track them more easily. Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is seen as the favoured method of monitoring such offenders to prevent them going near “forbidden” zones such as primary schools.
So if the RFID rice is supposed to be implanted into pedophiles and sex offenders in order to create more space in British jails, then what (or rather, whom) are the jails for? Or rather, if those kinds of very dangerous criminals need to be kept out of prisons to free up room for others, then what are the others?
Answer: White right-wingers who utter conservative rhetoric on race and other matters (i.e. “hate criminals”).
