Mobile finger printing

A news story today said that when the cops stop people when they are driving, they get about a 60% rate of people saying they are someone else.

I can’t believe the figure is anywhere near this high, but anyway, the cops now have some techy device that can take your fingerprints at the roadside.

Now we may first want to contemplate why so many people are breaking the law, (assuming 60% to be correct) I would start with a review of why we have criminalized quite so many people.

Second, I will not give the cops my finger-prints on the roadside. If they stop me, in a car registered to me, I see no reason to further “prove” who I am. Indeed this changes the fundamental relationship between citizen and state if I now have to prove my innocence.

Last, the fingerprint records will apparently be “kept” whether you are actually guilty of anything or not.

This is just one more step down the road to authoritarianism, one I will NOT be taking, they can bloody well arrest me.
“If you’ve nothing to hide you’ve nothing to fear” they will trumpet. Saddam Hussein could have said that. Trouble is, it seems like more or less everything is against the law in some shape or form nowadays.