FW: Proposal to register every human

Refugees meeting hears proposal to register every human

By Maria Hawthorne
Published: Friday December 14
http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/14/FFX058CU6VC.h
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Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and
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registered under a universal identification scheme to
fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined
at a United Nations meeting today.

The plan was put forward by Pascal Smet, the head of
Belgium's independent asylum review board, at a
roundtable meeting with ministers including Australian
Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock this afternoon.

Mr Smet said the European Union was already considering
a Europe-wide system, using either fingerprints or eye
scanning technology, to identify citizens.

But he said the plan could be extended worldwide.

"There are no technical problems. It is only a question
of will and investment," he said.

"If you look to our societies, we are already
registered from birth until death. Our governments know
who we are and what we are. But one of the basic
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problems is the numbers of people in the world who are
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not registered, who do not have a set identity, and
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when these people move with real or fake passports, you
cannot identify them.

[Problem for who again? Note assumption that persons
w/o 'registrations' have 'no identity'. In other words,
you do not have an identity unless the government
chooses to allow you to have one. Bow to the beast
friends!]

"It's a basic rule of management that if you want to
manage something, you measure it. It's the same
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with human beings and migration.
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[manage == control]

"But instead of measuring it, you have to register
them."

Mr Smet said the scheme would give people dignity by
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giving them an identity if their papers had been lost
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or destroyed.

[standard double-speak - black is white, etc]

And he said it would allow countries to open their
borders to genuine travellers or asylum seekers,
because they would be able to prove the identity of any
over-stayers and deport them without argument from
their home country.

Mr Ruddock appeared unconvinced by the merits of the
plan.

"In principle we would be supportive of a system which
would crack down on multiple asylum claims, but a
universal identification system would be taking it too
far," he said through a spokeswoman.