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Two separate articles that clearly and categorically answer the question of whether or not Britain is being run by a dictator under a fascist, police-state regime...

The first article describes how the nation is basically opposed to the ID Card scheme on a variety of fundamental levels.

It also has some quite stunning quotes that tell us much about the government mind set right now:

However, the Home Office insisted that the technology industry was "broadly in favour" of the way it was carrying out the ID cards programme.

The technology industry is in favour of the ID Card scheme is it? Well there is a surprise! An industry destined to make billions of pounds in sales to the government. Think about it...If you ran an RFID supply company would you oppose the government's efforts to roll out the ID Card?!??!

Yesterday, Tony Blair also defended the scheme and insisted it would remain a "major, major plank of the Labour party's manifesto at the next election".

Whoa there...Back up Silver! Part of the manifesto at the next election? So we assume that when the next election rears its ugly head we will NOT have an ID Card scheme in place. The ID Card is due to become compulsory in 2008 and the next election is currently scheduled for 2009. This means one of two things:

  1. Blair (or Labour depending on whether or not our illustrious leader chooses to step down and hand over the running of OUR nation to a politician who has only been elected to local government and whose position as Prime Minister will be COMPLETELY WITHOUT MANDATE AND COMPLETELY WITHOUT ANY FORMAL GUARANTEES OR STATED POLICY OBJECTIVES. This person will probably be Gordon Brown, who has proved time and again that he has very questionable abilities in his current area of work as Chancellor so why he should be any better at running the entire nation is totally beyond me) is intending to call an election prior to May 2009.
  2. Blair is planning on putting the roll-out date of the ID Card scheme until after May 2009.

The final gem from this first article is:

The stated aims of the nationwide ID card scheme are to protect or detect crime, ensure national security, enforce immigration controls, monitor the use of public services.

Ok, let us analyse this, shall we?

Protect or detect crime:

  • Firstly, how do you or why would you "protect crime"?!??!
  • Secondly, how does a 3"x2" piece of plastic kept in a criminals pocket whilst they are performing a robbery (assuming that they even carry the card with them of course!) actually help to detect the crime unless that card is being monitored around the clock.
  • We are told (although, for the record, we are being told barefaced lies by barefaced liars) that passive RFID chips can only be "pulsed" or activated from a distance of 30 centimetres or 12 inches and that active (batteries included) can be read from a maximum distance of 100 metres or 300 feet. So, if either of those statements are true, how do they expect to monitor these chips during a criminal act?
  • Accepting that only one of the above statements can be factual will crime be detected by a card that is constantly reporting your every move to a central system or is it not possible for the system to monitor your every move thus making a fairly useless tool in the fight against crime?
  • What happens when one of these cards is stolen and left at a crime scene? The mind boggles...

Ensure national security:

  • That old chestnut! Ok...Can anybody give me a single potential application in which a nation being made to carry an ID Card will offer us greater protections against those that do not wish for us to be secure? Spain has had an ID Card for decades and they have one of the worst terrorism problems on the planet! Not a great reference, that is for sure!
  • Do suicide bombers fill out the application form and put "Suicide Bomber" in the occupation section?
  • Do they even apply for a card at all?
  • These people, we are told, wish to die and take as many of us crusading christian infidels with them when they go. Do they really care about being spot-checked to see their ID Card?
  • Are they less likely to be able to get these cards forged then they are allegedly able to obtain forged passports? If the tales of 9-11 and 7-7 are to be believed, a number of the alleged "participants" had ID on them, although some of it was claimed to be concrete evidence (a passport on the ground outside the WTC stumbled upon by an FBI agent that was not incinerated in the massive jet fuel explosion that caused the first (and second) collapses of steel framed skyscrapers in the history of mankind) whereas some of it was claimed to be false documentation (when the "hijackers" started turning up alive!)
  • It is claimed that the British security services tracked Mohammed Sidique Khan (the latest person claimed to be the "mastermind" behind the 7-7 bombings) for a year prior to the bombings and decided that he posed no threat. How would an ID Card have made it easier to "spot" him when they were actually watching him?!??!

Enforce Immigration Controls:

  • Passports do not seem to work so what difference a piece of plastic?

Monitor The Use Of Public Services:

  • What?!??!
  • Monitor the use of public services? For what purpose?
  • To tax you more if you use more?
  • To ensure that people are not using their bin for the wrong type of litter?
  • To ensure that people are not using street lights for too long?
  • To ensure that they are only using the police force when it i absolutely necessary in a country where unreported crime is rocketing purely because people realise that the police will not bother doing anything anyway?
  • What possible advantage could an ID Card offer the government in terms of monitoring the use of public services that will not require somebody to pay more for something that they have already paid for?

This whole debate is a lot of hot air, rhetoric and guff! There is not one shred of evidence that suggest that there is one shred of truth in ANY of the stated purposes of the card...

They are control mechanism and nothing else. They are to be implemented so that the government can track you, tax you and control you.

And the best part?

YOU DO NOT EVEN WANT THEM!

However, despite the fact that nobody actually wants the ID Card and the government WORK FOR US, the card will be thrust upon the nation anyway...

You do not believe me?

Then here is the quote of the day. it comes from the second article, it is tucked away, almost out of sight, and it goes a little something like this:

And in relation to ID cards he insisted: "Don't be under any doubt at all, that goes forward."

Do not be under any doubt at all...Blair is a dictator, the government is out of control and your wishes do not matter. The majority of the UK does not want the ID Card but they are going to force it upon everybody regardless. That IS a dictatorship. There is no requirement to play with the meaning of the word, it is what it is.

And YOU are letting them do it.

Friday 4th August 2006 | politics,co.uk
Original article entitled "Public 'lack confidence' in ID card plans"

Plans for a nationwide ID card scheme "lack clarity" about how much the programme will cost and what it is meant to achieve, MPs warn today.

The Commons science and technology committee says a lack of transparency on the government's part has led to a loss of public confidence in the project, which aims to introduce biometric identity cards from 2008.

In a critical report, it also says it is "sceptical" about the government's financing estimates, noting that the current predictions of £584 million a year in running costs do not include the start-up and technology costs.

Shadow home secretary David Davis said the report proved the entire identity card project was a "shambles", and highlighted a "reckless lack of attention to detail" among the officials running the scheme.

However, the Home Office insisted that the technology industry was "broadly in favour" of the way it was carrying out the ID cards programme.

Yesterday, Tony Blair also defended the scheme and insisted it would remain a "major, major plank of the Labour party's manifesto at the next election".

The report praises the government's "good practice" on planning to introduce the ID cards scheme incrementally, and for setting up the necessary advisory committees and risk management strategies.

But it criticises the way ministers used scientific evidence, noting that they chose which biometrics would be used in the new cards - fingerprints, iris scans and face scans - without testing them out first.

It also warns there is an impression "that the government still does not know precisely what it wants from the identity card scheme", noting that the public arguments for ID cards have varied considerably over the past few years.

The stated aims of the nationwide ID card scheme are to protect or detect crime, ensure national security, enforce immigration controls, monitor the use of public services.

But the Department of Health (DoH) appears unsure whether ID cards would be used in the NHS, and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) was recently criticised by the information commissioner for failing to make public what it planned to use them for.

"This lack of transparency and reticence to share information regarding cross-departmental uses of the scheme damages public confidence," the MPs warn - although they also note that negative media reports about ID cards have further undermined trust.

Public support in the scheme has also been damaged by fears over cost, the committee says. While the government estimates £584 million a year running costs, the London School of Economics' has said it could cost up to £19 billion over ten years, including start-up costs and technology.

Mr Davis said the report was a "shocking indictment" of the whole ID cards scheme, adding: "It beggars belief that the government is prepared to waste £19 billion of taxpayers’ money on this plastic poll tax when the project is already in such dire straits."

Home Office minister Joan Ryan said the department would "consider very closely" the committee's recommendations and give a full response at a later date.

Thursday 3rd August 2006 | ePolitix.com
Original article entitled "Domestic agenda will be carried forward"

Tony Blair has insisted that the domestic agenda is still at the forefront of government thinking.

Speaking to journalists at his monthly press conference, the prime minister outlined a raft of policies which will receive attention over the coming months.

In the autumn a white paper on local government will deal with the powers devolved to councils and give local authorities greater control over their own affairs, he said.

And Blair will launch a document on social exclusion in September that will set out a new approach on how to tackle the "hardest to reach" families.

Despite initiatives like the New Deal and Sure Start, which have been lifting people out of poverty, Blair accepted that "there is an element of the population we are not reaching".

On business issues, planning and regulation will see new proposals, in addition to work towards a framework for the development of bioscience and technology in the UK.

The programme set out by home secretary John Reid on the reform of the criminal justice system will also be pushed forward, the prime minister insisted.

In education and health, a block of new academies will be announced in September and the government hopes to reach the one millionth person to use the NHS 'choose and book' system.

Proposals on pensions and energy will be carried forward as well.

"There are two elements to what we are trying to do," Blair said, "to modernise this country in the face of a rapidly changing world... and to do that on the basis of the principles of fairness and social justice".

"The purpose of the reforms... is to make our society fairer, to make it more equal in the opportunities it gives and to ensure that people can access the best public services irrespective of their wealth and based on their needs."

Facing accusations that government policy is a "bonfire of U-turns", he told the gathered journalists this was "absurd".

"Across the piece on policy we are moving forward probably in a more radical way than we have for ages," Blair said.

And in relation to ID cards he insisted: "Don't be under any doubt at all, that goes forward."

He also said the identity card programme would be in the party's manifesto at the next election.