Say No ! To Id Cards !!!!!

so to seriously bump this thread back into the twinges of broad day-light

apparently, as i was reading the local Echo (not necessarily the most informed paper but well it tries it's best) this whole ID card thing that most of aren't that chuffed about to begin with is looking to cost the country at least £5.6Billion .. yep that's right 5.6 Billion Great British Pounds from tax dollars and whatever else they can use to scrounge together to formulate their diabolical schemes.

i'm just wondering between that and a *er what was it £284Million Olympic Stadium, no wonder there isn't money to help as many people get houses and such when all the money is being taken away for programs that aren't going to do any good, and to show off to the world just how great London is but er, don't mind the 'gunfire in the background in South London, that's just er ... fireworks ... yah, fireworks sounds convincing right?



oh, and on another ID card topic, I was watching "How do they Do That?" on Discovery and they were showing how they make the ID card reader and this creeped me out a bit. Basically, if these things they are building go through to being mass-marketed along with ID cards, your local Constable that walks down the street would have one attached to his utility belt, and if you are stopped for any reason, you'd have to scan your card in and there's a place for you to put your fingerprint in order to make sure the two match up and make sure you are who you say you are. So yes, it is all in the works my droogies.

This should be something that people fight for, so we all don't end up more of a number in someone's list than we already are. Oh, and forgot to mention after your local constable finished his walkabout with his ID card reader at hand, he goes and docks it in at night and then it pulls all the 'protected' data down from the ID Card scan as well as your biometrics info and sends them all back to the database to check there for in discrepancy's and well to just generally keep a watchful EYE over everyone. ... i mean, it's for the Greater Good, is it not? (where have i read that before)

 

The whole idea of all this scares me, to be perfectly honest. I don't want to grow up and live in a country where I must carry an ID card with a chip and god knows what information on it.
Are they not coming in soon - 2010 or something? People do not seem to be worrying enough, doing anything about it. Are we going to let the government take us over without doing anything? We need to unite and protest against this, but what are words if they aren't followed by action. I can't do much, I am only 14, no one would listen. Someone needs to do something, to start the ball rolling, to get the powers that be realise we should not be taken over like this. It's unnessary and if we allow this to happen, what are they going to do next.

 

Nick Clegg MP has declared he is ready to break the law on ID cards. Who is he, you may ask. Apparently he's a contender for leadership of the Liberal Democrat party.

 

it scares me too.

and well they already have started rolling out as of ... um september i think it was? if you went to get yourself a passport now, you'd have to go through the ID Card process and go to one of their examination centres to be sure you are who you say you are, etc.

they are supposed to mandatory by 2010 for all citizens as far as i can remember. and if you don't bow down and get one they will fine you obscene amounts of money (think it's like £5000) with possiblity of imprisonment.

scary world you are growing up in, eh?

 

Is this true?:stunned:

 

the General Registry Office will join with the Identity and Passport Services office in April 2008. link

note that it is now the Identity and Passport Services office. the info for young adults (aged 16-17) to get a passport is contained on the ID card website for the home office. i know they opened the first examination centre in our area a few months back, as it created a paragraph in the local paper and then no one ever mentioned it again.

and yes, it will be compulsory for EVERYONE to have one. i'm not 100% positive of the date and it's late and i can't go searching for a ton of links at the moment, but i believe it was supposed to be by 2010 that everyone was supposed to have one, and yes, based on what i read before there are exorbant fines for not having one and then if you have one for then not updating your address, etc. i remember expressly that the fine for not updating your address if you move was £1000, because i thought it was absolutely ludicrious, and well what if you travel?


if i can remember to, i'll try to find more links, i know there is a bunch in the pages of this thread.