Revised ID card plans unveiled

Revised ID card plans unveiled

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Non-EU nationals will be issued with compulsory ID cards this year, airport baggage handlers and people in other sensitive security roles will get them from 2009, with students to get them from 2010.
The government had previously planned to take biometrics - including all 10 fingerprints - of everyone applying for a new passport from 2008.
The National Identity Register . . . will contain dozens of personal details of every adult in this country [U.K.] in one place.

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I am vehemently opposed to any sort of national identity scheme such as this. It is the modern equivalent of the 'show me your papers' attitude of the USSR, and once these cards are introduced, bad as they are, no doubt they will only be used as a stepping stone to enforce increasingly invasive forms of identification. A nation-wide DNA database, for example.

The effectiveness of a few thousand ATSers and whatever other informed members of the public that try to get the word out on these cards are hardly going to be even worth mentioning when 60-odd million people are concerned, especially when those people are so used to intrusive surveillance and monitoring already.
And what if you fight? You get labelled a terrorist and thrown behind bars without any sort of charges being laid for over 12 weeks (if PM Brown gets his way as he disagrees with the current 28 days), as these ID cards are here to help weed terrorists out, so they say.
There really isn't much we can do about this, short of forgoing society altogether. By the time anyone realizes the path these ID cards are leading them on, they will be so ingrained in the infrastructure it will be too late. For example:

[The Home Secretary] will also announce a rollout to students - with the thinking being that they will be the most willing to accept them as they could help students do things such as open bank accounts.

Already, before they've even been introduced, it's been suggested an ID card would be 'helpful' in opening a bank account. A few years after they've been brought in, I'm betting you won't even be able to buy bread and milk without one of these.
There won't be any calls of 'what happened to freedom' and 'what happened to privacy,' as the implementation of these security measures will be engineered to be gradual and unobtrusive. Already, as the article notes, accusations have been levelled at the government of trying to bring the cards in ‘by stealth.’ The freedoms and privacy provided in the future will not be recognized for what they really are; phoney proxies, not even a faint shadow of what people deserve. Freedom is being able to go to the shop without your purchases being logged in a government computer and multiple photographs of your face being taken (well, half of that is already lost), or being able to exercise your right of free speech without being watched and recorded.

It’s quite depressing to see where our modern society is going, where violent revolt is the only thing that can get us back our basic rights and liberties, where a few men hiding in caves have caused the superpowers to suppress their own citizens.




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Looks like they backed off the biometrics for a while, like the U.S. backed off RFID in our state cards (but not U.S Passports).

Too much oppposition right now.

But after a few attacks by terrorists holding the new ID, it will be easy for governments to implement stricter security measures.

If you issue legit ID's to known terrosits, finger prints and RFID won't help any.

hmmm just read this and as an Aussie and due to this, I will not work in the UK or visit now:

UK to bring in ID cards for Aussie workers:

By the end of this year Australians living or moving to the UK will be required to get a British identity card, after the the British Government unveiled new plans for the roll-out of its national ID system.

The British Government will make it compulsory for all foreigners from outside the European Union to have identity cards if they want to live or work in the UK. The cards will be rolled out in November.

They will be followed next year by the first ID cards for British citizens.

Scarey stuff, so UK become the first country to implement the ID cards?

Perhaps it is only a matter of time for all other countries to follow suit?

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It's just a matter of time before we have to do this in the U.S., we'll all end up obeying because it is in our best interest. Sure people will protest about it, have some pointless debates but in the end, we will all do as we are told. Stop dreaming that you will be able to wage war against the nwo, not gonna happen. You can always move to some obscure third world country, other than that just shut up and conform.