{"id":11615,"date":"2011-09-07T09:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2011-09-07T10:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T14:28:56","slug":"say-no-to-national-id-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/say-no-to-national-id-card","title":{"rendered":"Say No To National ID Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;ll be watching you.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a totalitarian police state with a snake at the head.  If you thought &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bladerunnerthemovie.warnerbros.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bladerunner<\/a>&#8221; couldn&#8217;t happen here, think again. Frank &#8220;snake&#8221; Wilson&#8217;s pet police poodle, Keith Bell, recently suggested to an audience at the Rotary Club of West Nassau, that if the PLP gets back into power they would consider introducing a National ID System.<\/p>\n<p>Scary stuff, especially given Mr Wilson&#8217;s track record for business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, a Birth Certificate, National Insurance Card, Driver&#8217;s License and a Passport aren&#8217;t enough?<\/p>\n<p>Next step is little micro-chips implanted in our heads.<\/p>\n<p>This would make it real easy for government, which has proven itself unworthy of our trust in so many instances, to keep tabs on us in a way that is downright frightening.<\/p>\n<p>Reminds one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cEnJDaqT3-0\" target=\"_blank\">song by Sting<\/a>, &#8220;Every breath you take, Every move you make, Every step you take, I&#8217;ll be watching you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank &#8220;the Snake&#8221; Wilson&#8217;s pet police poodle wants to know where you are and where you are going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[93,40,60],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}