The Politics of Fear
Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn have been playing politics with the tragic murder of Detective Constable Stephen Oake by a failed asylum-seeker, trying to use it to justify forcing ID cards on everyone in the country.
Compulsory national ID cards wouldn’t have prevented the murder, nor helped uncover the poisoning plot (assuming there actually was one). For a more balanced view of what actually happened, see these articles in The Times and The Register.
April 15th, 2005 at 14:42
Charles Clarke and ID Cards
Charles Clarke is claiming that ID Cards are necessary and citing the recent ricin case as an example. The fact that this chap had already been fingerprinted and was on the system – and this had no part in his…