U.K.: All Kids To Be Fingerprinted

It emerged last month that all 12 million British kids will be monitored via a new $400-million government database that includes information on whether Nigel and Vera eat enough fruit and vegetables.

Well, guess what else the Blair administration has in store for the young 'uns? All those kids now also face mandatory fingerprinting — and access to those data will likely be granted to foreign agencies as well as domestic ones.

From a civil-liberties point of view, this officially makes the U.K. the scariest 'civilized' country on the face of the planet. As also evidenced here, here, and here.