O flautista de Hamelin II

New technology and greater scrutiny to feature in anti-fraud strategy

BENEFIT cheats will face lie detector tests and have their shopping habits tracked under plans to tackle the massive abuse of a welfare system that David Blunkett last night conceded was "crackers".
The Work and Pensions Secretary will unveil an anti-fraud strategy later this week which will include controversial measures such as cross-checking utility and credit card bills and voice recognition software to detect when callers are lying to government agencies.

Deve ser assim que começa o totalitarismo, nascendo da ma consciência de social-democratas iluminados. A besta de que fala Steve Mallory em “The Fountainhead” é isto.

...Listen, what's the most horrible experience you can imagine? To me-it's being left, unarmed, in a sealed cell with a drooling beast of prey or a maniac who's had some disease that's eaten his brain out. You'd have nothing then but your voice-your voice and your thought. You'd scream to that creature why it should not touch you, you'd have the most eloquent words, the unanswearable words, you'd become the vessel of the absolute truth. And you'd see living eyes watching you and you'd know that the thing can't hear you, that it can't be reached, not reached, not in any way, yet it's breathing and moving there before you with a purpose of it's own. That's horror. Well, that's what's hanging over the world, prowling somewhere through mankind, that same thing, something closed, mindless, utterly wanton, but something with an aim and a cunning of it's own. I don't think I'm a coward, but I'm afraid of it. And that's all I know-only that it exists. I don't know it's purpose, I don't know it's nature.

Foi isto que Rand disse pela voz de Mallory em The Fountainhead. Profético.