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Old 27th Aug 2014, 06:32
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So do you want to have the 'Pass Law' reinstated? Or police stopping people at random demanding "Ihre Papiere, bitte!".
If you're referring to Pass Laws in South Africa and using it to have a cheap jibe at me on the basis of an assumption that I was in favour of apartheid and its peripheral laws, then ...........no.

If you mean should people be accountable to the authorities for their legal status, then yes. Given that many countries are flooded with illegal aliens who are unaccountable, it would be a step towards making the rest of us safer, and it would reduce the abuse of resources paid for by taxpayers.

Stopping at random? Maybe, but I would prefer to see profiling, but of course that's an unmentionable as it's not PC. Who is more likely to be a criminal, an 80 year old lady hobbling back from drawing her pension at the Post Office and with a loaf of bread in her bag, or a 22 year old with dreadlocks driving a Renault Clito with booming music and blackout windows?

Finally, excuse my ignorance, but what's a 1250?
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