UK: BIG GAY BROTHER

All right, lame headline but I couldn't think of any other way to marry these two stories...

First up, the UK legalizes gay marriage. Yep, the country we rebelled against legalized gay marriage before we could. I think they should rebel against us, just on principle. Read about [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gays22dec22,1,6802247.story?coll=la-headlines-world|Elton John's marriage] at LATimes.com.

So, you might be thinking how great it must be in Britain right now--freedom so great, gays can get married!

Well, hold your horses! If Elton and his man had gotten married in 2006 instead of 2005, the UKG could track where they go after the wedding--no, it's not an anti-gay thing, but an anti-freedom thing.

Here's a clip from [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/transport/article334686.ece|an article] at Independent.co.uk that will explain it better:

Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles on the roads are recorded. A new national surveillance system will hold the records for at least two years.

Using a network of cameras that can automatically read every passing number plate, the plan is to build a huge database of vehicle movements so that the police and security services can analyse any journey a driver has made over several years.

The network will incorporate thousands of existing CCTV cameras which are being converted to read number plates automatically night and day to provide 24/7 coverage of all motorways and main roads, as well as towns, cities, ports and petrol-station forecourts.

OK, they now need to rebel against themselves.

This is the most absurd thing I've heard in a while--all right, since [http://thepete.com/bush-spying-the-press-what-a-mess/|Monday], but the point is, why do you need to map EVERY Briton's movements??

Besides the fact that Al Qaeda is not a threat to your country, why track EVERY person in your country when 99.9999% of them are law abiding citizens?

George Orwell, wasn't he from the UK? Guess he had a few things right...