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Tuesday June 28, 2005
Id cards bill to get second reading
Today we get the second reading of the ID cards bill.
The Home Secretary claims there will be no compulsion to show the ID on the street. Odd that the bill does not actually rule that out.
The claim is that this will “tackle serious and organised crime, although not street crime”. Are we really being asked to believe that serious crime is being perpetrated by people who the authorities can not already identify, and that a plastic card, that you don't have to carry is going to change that?
I'm left wondering what the real reason for introducing the cards is. It's not to prevent terrorism, it's not to prevent street crime, it is not so save money and I just don't by the serious crime claim either. Unless we are moving to a society where every transaction with the government will require the card, and while you are at it, to get the money launderers every transaction with a bank. Then the scheme would have some merit. Obviously civil liberties would be lost and we would live in both a socially and financially poorer society, but the politicians could keep a track on us.
Just what we want, and well worth £100 a head, or not.
tags: Id Cards
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