ID could be you
Paul Routledge writes in the Daily Mirror:
Foreigners living in Britain who don’t buy a new biometric ID card by November will be fined, thrown out, or jailed.
If they don’t get fingerprinted and iris-scanned they’ll be fined £250, rising to £1,000 for further offences. Expulsion from the UK is the next level of punishment.
This regime will eventually apply to all of us, not just foreigners.
Despite ministerial denials, we will face fines and jail if we don’t walk the streets with a Gestapo-style internal passport.
The Home Office is already working on plans for “coercion” to bully us into carrying one of their fancy new ID cards.
Shami Chakrabarti, head of rights group Liberty, accuses the government of using foreigners as “ID card guinea pigs”. She adds: “Anyone who thinks this will be limited to foreign nationals should think again.” She’s right. They are a test bed for the ID repression of everybody.
You have been warned.
February 29th, 2008 at 21:37
When the fuck are the general public going to wake up?.ID Cards and the National Identity Register will impose upon us all in a very big way,but nobody seems to care !We have a younger generation that doesn,t seem to want or care about loss of freedom,s or their ever eroding privacy.Maybe I am being cynical but perhaps Nu Labour wanted a whole generation of youngsters out of their heads on booze or skunk? Wake up before its too late!
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:22
Now, I wonder about the “Yuman Rights” issue here. If the NuLabor apparatchiks do get their way, the Yuman Rights rules will have been changed in order to permit such expulsions. Given that I will refuse to get an ID card, will I then be able to claim discrimination because they do not expel me from this horrible country? No, I am a male WASP, so am incapable of being discriminated against! Oh well, it was a try.