ID CARDS?

[user3289]

Taken from the "other site"...


Just like the 24 bits of info sent to the US of A every time you fly
>anywhere - so that , for example, they can deduce you're Muslim if you
>order a halal in-flight meal. Scary - particularly in the hands of
>principleless megalomaniacs like Dubya and bLiar ...
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>INTERESTING READING
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>A WORRYING READ!
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>This was written originally by Frances Stonour Saunders.
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>Frances Stonour Saunders is the former arts editor of The New Statesman,
>author of The Cultural Cold War, Diabolical Englishman and The Devil's
>Broker and was awarded the Royal Historical Society's William Gladstone
>Memorial Prize. She lives in London.
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>"You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a
>crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not
>something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport
>and Driving Licence and an ID Card will be no different to that.
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>What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and
>what it will mean to you personally.
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>The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will
>be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register),
>where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the
>unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the
>back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth
>will also obviously be stored there.
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>There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status,
>and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited
>space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can
>be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.
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>By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be
>wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your
>identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you
>present it to 'prove who you are'.
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>Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every
>pharmacy, and every bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like
>the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can
>be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is
>made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This
>means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you
>withdraw more than £99 at your branch of NatWest, who now demand ID for
>these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your
>card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR.
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>Restaurants and off licences will demand that your card is swiped so that
>each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this
>was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.
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>Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you
>want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If
>you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card, or a supermarket
>loyalty card, or a driving licence you will have to present your ID Card
>for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone
>or an internet account.
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>Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases
>of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR, just as every other
>business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to
>store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel,
>phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your
>unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage
>device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally
>or illegally. It will then be possible for a non-governmental entity to
>create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government
>will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a
>complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw
>from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the
>level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique
>number in a Central database.
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>This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name
>and face.
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>Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the
>proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to
>them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.
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>The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR
>and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew
>your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your
>eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you
>want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you
>will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your
>passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to
>revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to
>withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that
>requires you to present your government issued ID Card.
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>The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be
>easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a
>compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate
>benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical
>cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the
>LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total
>surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen, and it
>will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer
>systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.
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>If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before
>and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this
>country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give
>it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know
>and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of
>accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public.
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>Together and hand in hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who
>receives this passes it on."



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[shepster]

:shock: fook :shock: