So let me get this right

Charles Clarke (our ever so wise Home Secretary) wants to abolish any compensation given to those who have been wrongly imprisoned by the state. He also wants to raise the barrier at which evidence is acceptable to overturn a conviction making it harder to appeal against the conviction in the first place.

Now surely only a paranoid person would think that was anything worrying about this?

Plus in a little know change to practice the police now routinely take a DNA sample of anyone who "helps them with their enquires." Note this isn't every one who is charged but everyone who they question. Ok you might think I guess that when the individual is cleared they will destroy the sample, no. They currently have 4-5 million samples on a permant database.

So surely only some one who has something to hide would think this is a problem?

In a spirit of compromise the government backdown when the House of Lords objected to their plans for a national identity card and database(containing BioMetric data). The government claimed it was voluntary but compulsory when applying for a passport - oh and the card costs the user 100 of their English Pounds. The Lords said that wasn't voluntary. The government said, ok we will collect the data and add it to the database but not issue a card. The Lords said, oh ok then.

Now only the churlish would think that the objection should be to the database not the card?

Now I don't think i'm either paranoid, have anything to hide or churlish. But I do think my government is taking the piss.