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TORONTO -- A farmer and fundamentalist Christian who's convinced that digital driver's licence photos are the work of the devil is taking the Ontario government to court to avoid having his picture taken.

George Bothwell, 57, cradled a gilt-edged King James Bible on his lap and stared at the floor during a news conference Wednesday as he tried to explain why he doesn't want anyone taking digital photos of his face.

"This technology will allow central control over people's behaviour, which the Bible warns us against," said Bothwell, clad in a tweed jacket with the cuffs of his jeans tucked inside black cowboy boots.

"Ethical and moral control is to come from within the individual, not to be imposed from the outside. It is to be voluntary, not something that is involuntary. It has to come from the heart."

Bothwell believes that biometrics - the use of physical identifiers such as fingerprints, retina scans and face recognition - is specifically cited in the book of Revelations as the work of agents of the devil.

He believes that anyone who allows their image to be archived by an outside agency bears "the mark of the beast" and will "drink the wine of the wrath of God" as a result.

James Mccarten Canadian Press: Government doing devil's work, says Ontario farmer who fears licence photo

Richard Evans Lee
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We call it "Political Correctness." The name originated as something of a joke, literally in a comic strip, and we tend still to think of it as only half-serious. In fact, it’s deadly serious. It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted "victims" groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.

Posted by: whatswronginusa | July 16, 2004 4:39 PM

i believe that its gonna come to pass/and has already to a degree- as Rev says,people telling others how to live their life,and how to raise their children and how to worship,i believe its started already but the worst is yet to come and no one can stop it but God almighty,children not minding parents,parents not careing for their children,people not careing for one another,no one trust much any more, prayer taken out of public places/bible reading any thing that has to do with the word=GOD will be slowley done away with--this is truly sad but ment to be,you can try to stop it from happening but with no luck-for the bible says these things must come to pass,What happen to the good old days when God was number one to almost everyone.children were raised by how the BIBLE said they were to be raised not how men thought they should be raised.people lived by how the bible said not by how man thought they should live their life,time may change but GODS word will never pass away/or change.

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