Britain Mulls Tagging Wandering Elderly

What a world we live in when people react to a government official testing an idea for gps trackers on people? I say that it shows that perhaps the people are not asleep, they are aware now of the potential dangers of a gov't with too much control and power and are trying to do something about it. I say that is a positive thing.

A negative outcome for something like this or similar, would be for the event to just go unnoticed, no reaction from either side, or perhaps only reaction from one side on the issue. A complacent population, not caring what new ehhem 'safeguards' were put in place by their gov't.

Some pertinent quotes:

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think”

"The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace."

"The danger is that man could actually be transformed into an unfeeling machine."

mmm

Fascist State UK-Hundreds hit in roadside fingerprints

Britain has been making moves for a while for fingerprint data bases of all citizens, and for biometric ID cards

'Hundreds of motorists have had their fingerprints checked at the roadside in a controversial pilot scheme that has raised fears of a growing Big Brother culture. Drivers and passengers are among the 4,200 people who just in the past four months have been asked to use a hand-held fingerprint reader.

But this is ok for the UK to have fingerprint random checkpoints, because this helps to stop terrorism and crime.

"PAPERS PLEASE!"

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk...

I would give my cautious support to exploring the idea of using GPS to track people with Alzheimers/Dementia.
Before my Granddad went to a secure Dementia unit he was found wondering the streets with no clue where he had come from and where he was going. People with Dementia can also be paranoid and become violent.

I cant see people with Alzheimers/Dementia being tagged for the simple and logical reason that by the time the disease reaches the stage where a GPS tag is needed it is no longer safe for them to be out in public by themselves. So a move to a secure Dementia unit is the best thing in the suffers and public's interests.