Mad Old Geezer Internet Mobility Danger Flu Bollocks

That about sums up the level of intelligence of someone like former Home Secretary John Reid, who has come out with this:

"Now you have a completely mobile world. So the great questions of mass migration, international crime and international terrorism were much higher than they were previously."

The result was "far more sources of insecurity than ever before", made worse by the advent of the internet which increased the interdependence of the world.

He said: "We have to recognise that on the net you can practically get the full DNA of the First World War flu that killed 24 million people."

Right. So now I can manufacture the flu virus that killed millions after the end of the Great War - because the information is available on the internet? Crikey, that's a worry.

Sounds like a good reason to let the government take it all over so we can't do anything wrong. That seems to be the reasoning.

Think of recent noises from government - Blears on blogging, Mandelson on Nominet - and the incoming EU legislation to log all our phone and internet activity - and do you get the feeling they're up to something?

Reid is leaving parliament at the next election. Good riddance to him. Pity all the other authoritarian, useless bastards don't follow him.