Nationality - it's in the genes
Or so the Foreign Office think. In an effort to be able to return illegal immigrants to the correct country, they plan to use DNA "evidence" (sic) to identify where to return someone who is to be deported.
Given that a DNA test will identify only ones' parental origins, and not ones' most recent residence, the scientific ignorance is startling.
Perhaps the Customs staff will start relearning the lost skills of Anthropometry and Craniometry, so expertly misused by the KKK and the Nazis, in an effort to identify criminals, recidivists, dole scroungers and Tory voters before they are allowed into the country. And lets just go the whole hog and rename them the preCrime squad.
Sitting MPs have their brains removed
Given that a DNA test will identify only ones' parental origins, and not ones' most recent residence, the scientific ignorance is startling.
Perhaps the Customs staff will start relearning the lost skills of Anthropometry and Craniometry, so expertly misused by the KKK and the Nazis, in an effort to identify criminals, recidivists, dole scroungers and Tory voters before they are allowed into the country. And lets just go the whole hog and rename them the preCrime squad.
Sitting MPs have their brains removed
9 comments:
...the scientific ignorance is startling.
No more so than that of a Comhairle which thinks that windfarms are a 'good thing'....
At least using DNA for the stated purpose isn't going to cause massive environmental destruction for no benefit--no, I take that back, those who get er, what was the term?--something to do with 'financial incentives to procure a favorable decision'...
Ah, yes: 'community funds/grants'. Yes; those councils who, er, 'accept community funds/grants and allow their decisions to be swayed thereby' will benefit. Nobody else will. Except developers, of course.
Which brings me back to the point: councils, and ex-councillors, are the least qualified to rant on about 'scientific ignorance' (not even good English, by the way), when they themselves have demonstrated so conclusively their own ignorance of scientific fact (correct usage of English, by the way).
Or perhaps they are well aware of the facts, but just don't care. Eh?
This is the pro-nuclear loon from before, now with added zionism. God, you really attract them Angus.
Any facts to back up your insults? or is that what passes for intelligent debate in your small mind?
Whats this got to do with wind farms, it's now in the hands of the executive and whatever the decision is some people are going to be disapointed.
Back to the main point
This obsession with immigration is becoming quite frightening, at the end of the day we are all a bit of a mix and nationalism like religon is more an accident of birth than a philisophical decision.
By the same criteria would most of the folk in the Western Isles have to jump back on the Birlinn?
DNA testing for distant/rough ancestry is cheap, quick and easy nowadays.
Birlinn comment: if it was found that the majority of people in the Outer Hebrides had Norse ancestry, would that mean that these islands could leave the UK and apply to be part of Norway?
Which would be fantastic, as Norway takes care of its outlying rural areas and has a substantial lead on energy, transport infrastructure, knowledge economy and above all education, over most of the rest of the world.
Doesn't matter that we are geographically closer to the UK. Jersey and Guernsey are a stones throw from France but are part of the UK, so it works both ways.
Imagine, our dispora are sent home with all that intelligence, business acumen and success and outstanding ability, and we then take THAT to Norway.
Unfortunately, we might also get Mr Trump.
Norway...? £8 a pint? think i will stay where I am, thank you very much
Aye, cheap booze is the solution to all our woes.
isn't the full quote "ah, alcohol the cause of, and solution to all of lifes problems..."
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