“ID cards will make our private lives impossible – [Sunday Herald]:
Muriel Gray argues that the introduction of identity cards will not help prevent such atrocities as the Soham murders, instead they will make the lives of law-abiding people a nightmare”
This illustrates perfectly the arguments I’ve been trying to make for years but have been unable to articulate effectively. Needless to say, I’ll be directing friends towards it.
During the non-event which was the government’s “consultation period”, I wrote to the home office to express my views – in a nutshell “when you can convince me that the information will not be abused by the current or any future government, then I’ll consider it” – I was fed the hateful line that the above article mentions – “if you have nothing to hide….”.
Does a black woman living in Tower Hamlets have anything she’d like to conceal from her BNP councilor? The lovely Mr Blunkett seems to be taking a very short term view of the whole thing. This information, once collected, really can’t be “uncollected”, can it?
No mention is made (in public, at least) of the fact that Spain has had ID Cards in place for years, but that didn’t prevent a terrorist attack on Spanish soil. I wonder if the democratic Spaniards who were in favour of the ID card scheme are as happy now that a socialist government is in power.
As a closing note (or parting shot, if you like 
), I read recently that the government are planning a UK wide “child database”. Bearing in mind that in twenty years time todays children won’t be children any more, this looks like the same legislation via the back door, in case sanity prevails in the commons. I, for one, will go to jail before I allow my children to be fingerprinted.
Must have put the fear of God into the bloke before he leapt out of a first floor window to escape 
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