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If you tolerate this
I'm dead set against ID cards - I've mentioned this before but I'm quite happy to say again. I've signed up to www.no2id.net.
I'm also firmly with my shoulder against the door that lets in a national DNA database - and thats regardless of the killers it may find. Buts thats another blog.
There are many reasons I abhor the introduction of these systems. I'm happy to gloss over my competency in IT and my workings for central government; my knowledge of their incompetence in the same field. I'm happy to walk Las Ramblas and ignore other people's real intent, but identification schemes under the guise of 'security' are a down and out block of mine, your liberty.
Fundamentally, I feel its a base attack on your right, my right, our right to be a citizen in the UK; that the instigation of these things, is an attack on the very concept that fundamentally you, I, we walk these streets innocent. That we allow the government to govern, rather than the government allow us to be citizens.
And don't give me that 'I'm innocent what do I have to hide' line - I see that as a base acceptance of your denial of right to innocence - and thats wrong as wrong can be . The onus should not be on you to forgo your status of innocence to the state, but for the state to prove that your innocence is not valid.
I do not accept that attack on the right of a citizen.
If you were to review newspaper cuttings of the inglorious days of the IRA' Troubles' there was no concept of having to have an ID card, cameras on your doorstep - yet now, now its acceptable for some reason.
But even if we disregard that - your government sees fit to spend millions of your money introducing yet *another* form of identification when we already have passports, we already have national insurance numbers, health numbers, driving license numbers, birth certificates - why introduce another system?!
The recent changes have tempered original proposals, now its "later" before ID cards are introduced. Only some people *have* to have them. But why? Whats wrong with security measures in place now. Will it still be *illegal* for these people to have them? like it was before?
If their introduction is intended to 'stop terrorism' - why only give them to students and foreign nationals? Why waste the money that could be spent on the NHS, or schools, or public transport or ... well just about anything else really?!
I woke up this morning to the sounds of Radio5 live hailing the new refocused id card scheme and I started shouting and possibly foaming at the mouth. I know my beautiful girlfriend turned off the radio until I'd calmed down.
Its late now and I've an early appointment - but if you've been affected by this blog, complain.
Because if you tolerate this ... its your children that will be next.
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Posted: 10:56, Thursday, March 6, 2008 |
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