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Say No To ID Cards!!
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Started by The NO2ID Campaign onÂ
August 10 2007
Hi my name Is Phil Booth, National Co-ordinator for the No to ID campaign. We oppose the ID schem and the database state. We still have no clear picture about how the ID process is going to be. You will have to answer many personal question, you will have to be fingerprinted and have your eyes scanned. You will also have to spend hundreds of pounds on lost cards, card renewals and stolen cards.
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added August 10 2007
ID cards will make it so much easier for identity theft. Instead of having to provide 2 or 3 methods of identity to obtain finances, goods, credit/debit cards, etc., just 1 item will suffice, your ID card. And it will be so easy to do believe me. Dont let it happen.
added August 13 2007
ABSOLUTELY! The "so-called" justifications for the scheme are as spurious as they are myriad. It is critical that we dont lose sight of the fact that it is the National Identity Register i.e. the database that sits behind the identity card that's the most worrying aspect of this whole scheme. It's a massive honeypot for identity thieves; it allows us to be tracked by virtue of the way the data is used by the government and commercial entities. And, to compound these concerns, we have government's appalling record when it comes to implementing IT solutions. Not forgetting of course that no identity management system of this scale and complexity has been implemented - by the public sector or otherwise.
added August 13 2007
Well said! The ID scheme is an outrageous encroachment on our privacy and our civil liberties - and yet appears to offer absolutely no benefit whatsoever. We will be required to attend interrogation centres. Required to tell the government every time we move house. Required to provide our ID details every time we wish to access health care, or open a bank account, or apply for credit - with the details being stored on the audit trail of the National Identity Register. And why? ID cards didn't stop the Madrid train bombers. ID cards never did anything to prevent organised crime (the Mafia!) operating in Italy. ID cards have not had any effect on immigration in other European countries that have them (most of whom had ID cards imposed on them by fascist dictators, of course). The ID card scheme will be the new poll tax. Do the government really believe that we are all going to keep telling them what we are up to every day - and paying them for the privilege of updating our details. Please Sir, where can I get the forms in triplicate to let me stay at my friend's house for a month? Big Brother gone mad! Refuse. Resist.
added August 13 2007
The government wants us under its thumb, and they'll do it with ID Cards, the National Identity Register, and all the dozens of interlinked nosey databases. If you do something they dont like - being late with child maintenance payments for instance - and they'll do something you dont like: they'll take your ID Card away so that you can't travel, get a job, take out a loan, live your life.
added August 14 2007
Here, here. We are on the verge of a "papers, please" society. People used to say "it's a free country" - well it really isn't any more, and if this scheme becomes an acutality, any pretence that it is will be gone. The ID database and card MUST be resisted.
added August 14 2007
ID cards are a great idea and the sooner they’re introduced, the better! We live in a very violent world today. A world riddled with mass movement of unknown people of questionable character and intent, terrorism dressed up in a Doctor’s coat and evil people prepared to kill, maim and slaughter innocent victims irrespective of their race, creed, colour or culture. The UK is already brim full of CCTV cameras so to a certain degree, our daily lives are already monitored. In fact, we are the most filmed nation on earth. It is not for any Big Brother reasons that the Government wants to keep a track on us. It is because of the lawlessness and violence this nation has turned to as a national pastime! ID cards would be a perfect adjunct to CCTV - an antidote to illegal immigration and potential terrorist threats - and would help the police no end in their ceaseless fight against crime. I, for one, would not have any problem in providing personal details if and when ID cards hopefully become mandatory. In fact, I’d go one further. I say that all children should be DNA’d at birth. In time, this would help to eliminate crime altogether. Remember, if you abide by the law, you have nothing to fear. Break it and you should face punishment for your wrongdoing.
added August 17 2007
What happens when some crazy political party gets elected in the future (it has done before, and it will do again) which starts taking a dislike to minority groups or sexualities? It will harvest the ID register for information and lash out with horrible efficiency.
added August 17 2007
it suits the purposes of governments to put the fear of God (or crime or drugs or terror...) into it's citizens to frighten us into giving up all our freedoms and liberties eg the right to silence, jury trials, the right to demonstrate etc. we DO NOT live in a democracy. in a democracy we would vote on our laws and on our annual budget. we live in an elected dictatorship that merely allows us to vote on which corrupt, lying, sleazy politician gets to tell us what to do (and, realistically, we only get to choose from two people). unless the citizens of the UK stand up for our rights we shall sleepwalk into a police state. organizations out there are fighting for our rights eg no2id, elect the lords and Liberty and if you are unhappy with the way the government is running things, join them and pressure the govt into listening to us.
added August 17 2007
So Barry, if ID cards will eliminate crime, why is there still crime in countries that already have them?
added August 17 2007
Blair began the ID Card nonsense as a knee jerk response to terror crimes, saying that ID Cards would provide better security. As this was disproved, his reasons shifted and we are left with an expensive and useless programme. It is now time for Gordon Brown to dump this item of Blair rubbish.