Kirk warning over identity cards
The BBC reports:
The UK Government has been urged to rethink plans for identity cards by a Church of Scotland committee.
Apparently the Kirk’s Church and Nation Committee said that, alongside the cost, it questioned the idea that:
“if all the good people conform, identify themselves and carry cards, we can restrain the bad people”, dubbing this “simplistic”.
Its members said: “The presumption behind the ‘nothing to hide – nothing to fear’ mantra is obnoxious.
“That presumption is that the citizen is answerable, in this sense, to the government. It should be the other way around.
