"In just 24 hours there have been three sit-up-and-take-notice examples.
The first, and probably the worst, is this planned health and lifestyle survey, courtesy of Kevin Rudd.
According to this concept, 50,000 people will be required to answer intimate questions about what they eat, what they drink, what they weigh and how many times they can run around the block without keeling over.
If previous surveys are repeated they may be sent a book with pictures of different-sized spoons and plates so they can report whether they are anorexic or a glutton.
Effectively, they will be asked by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to hand over everything of personal importance except their first-born.
And it will be compulsory. If you are selected in that mysterious way bureaucrats select such things, you will do what Kevin from Kirribilli says or you will be fined $110 for each day you refuse.
They would also like to weigh you, take your blood pressure, collect your blood and have you leave a sample of what is usually left as a sample in those sterilised little bottles.
That part is not compulsory, but good luck if you object.
The Heart Foundation and the Australian Medical Association support the survey because they like nothing more than a book full of statistics to justify their existence.
But the problem, as with the Census, is that you have no option. It's compulsory."
I hope that people in our country,and elsewhere, will not become so over- governed, restricted and locked into a technological world, as to lose all their freedom and the ability to think and act as individuals.
centuries...... I think we're already there!
