I’m beginning to live in fear of the state
In an opinion piece in the Daily Telegraph, Vicki Woods writes:
What I care about is that [Tony Blair] is taking away my freedom to be who I am. The ID card lunacy alone should have the free citizens of Britain pouring into the streets à la poll tax riots. The state database is only one of Tony’s assaults on freedom, but it’s the biggest, the stupidest and the most illiberal.
He – Tony – will never, ever be stopped by some snotty youth 10 days out of Hendon Police College and asked to “identify himself to the authorities”. You and I will.
“No one should fear correct identification,” said David Blunkett. Oh, yes? Via a biometric card linked to a leaky government database? We should fear it mightily. It won’t be “correct”, any more than any other hastily got up and cockamamie government IT programme. And its purpose is not to enable free citizens to “prove” who they are, but to enable the Government to know who they are, where they are, what they are doing and what they have done.
September 2nd, 2008 at 15:21
So relieved to hear,Vicki speaking out. Its good that someone can claim to be English and trying to abide by an ‘Englishmans standards of decent Government……Thank you Vicki! Lets hope you get the ball rolling again (Cricket ,you understand!)You’re right! They must ‘GO’
Pete Short