On The Road In The Kingdom Of Fear

UK Politics - labour and the house of commons

Do even the ‘disaffected’ Labour MPs care for our liberty? If this analysis (<http://www.revolts.co.uk/Identity%20cards%20II.pdf>) of parliamentary voting from before the election is a guide, even with a reduced Labour majority and focussed Tory and Liberal Democrat opposition we should not expect to escape compulsory registration. The ID card bill - more appropriately called the National Identity Register Bill - will almost certainly pass. And then, on some date in the near future, you and I will be required to queue for recording. Once that is done, the stone will have been rolled to the top of the hill and we will only be able to guess at its future path. When the mechanism of dystopia is brought online, both paranoia and conspiracy are redundant.

The National Identity Register is unprecedented. Its architects hope to assemble a state-wide apparatus in which any citizen, with or without his or her card - and perhaps with or without his or her consent or knowledge - can be scanned and immediately matched to a computerised record. Even without your presence, every transaction you make in which your identity is checked against the register will be centrally recorded. Every life will be written up in a file which only the government will have the discretion to show, hide or alter. Such a device, although in itself difficult and expensive to build, has the capacity to generate nightmares.

There are alternatives. We do not need a central register.

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posted by Alexander Try @ 4:13 pm