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Thread ID: 10579 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-10-18
2003-10-18 06:50 | User Profile
Thu, October 16, 2003
Photos devil's work: Farmer
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 yesterday 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. "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, retinal scans and face recognition -- is specifically cited in the Book of Revelations as the work of agents of the devil.
But he needs a driver's licence to operate his organic farm and liquid manure spreading business in Owen Sound, 150 km northwest of Toronto, and wants the Ministry of Transportation to exempt him from the photo requirement on the grounds it's against his religion.
The ministry exercises strict control over its photo database, said spokesman Bob Nichols. The only time photos are ever used for anything else is as evidence in a court proceeding, he said. But none of Ontario's other 8.5 million licensed drivers have ever requested a religious exemption, he said.
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2003-10-18 06:59 | User Profile
FB, this is really getting old and tiresome.
2003-10-18 14:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE]liquid manure spreading business [/QUOTE]
Good work, if you can get it!
Walter