ID Cards

[Annie]

I know, not strictly 911, but I felt it appropriate to post it as this is yet another result of the ensuing "war on terror".

Annie


Subject: Compulsory ID Cards

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 License and an ID Card
will be no different to that. What you have not been
told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and
what it will mean to you personally.

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. 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 withou further Acts of Parliament.

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'.

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 =A399 at your branch of Nat West, 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. Restaurants and
off licenses
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.

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 license
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.

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.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID
Card that shows your
name and face.

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.

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 wether 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.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favor
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
any case, is small compared
to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will
be measured in billions according to the LSE. 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.

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. The
Bill has
proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate
and complete
information on this proposal being made public. Hand
to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone
who receives this passes it on.
Please make sure you do this.

[sonic]

Good reminder from Annie!

Bear in mind too that you can be refused large withdrawals from you bank account without your ID card.

Maybe free speech will suffer and folks who stand for truth will have their ID cards withdrawn!

What does all of this mean???

If you ask me it's completely Orwellian.

We seem to be entering a new era of fascism (maybe we're already there)?

Peace,

Sonic.

[Dr Hemp]