ID card rebels offer £1,000 for Brown’s fingerprints
Jamie Doward writes in The Observer:
Two of Britain’s leading civil liberties groups are to offer a £1,000 reward for the fingerprints of the Prime Minister or Home Secretary – a move that could leave both groups open to prosecution for incitement.
The anti-ID cards group No2ID and the campaign organisation Privacy International will this week take out spoof ‘Wanted’ posters in tube stations and pub lavatories offering the cash to anyone who can lawfully obtain either the fingerprints of Gordon Brown or Jacqui Smith. An initial print run of 10,000 has been commissioned.
The posters, resembling those issued by US sheriffs hunting outlaws in the Wild West, are backed by an internet campaign and accuse Brown and Smith of ‘identity theft’. They stipulate that ‘the fingerprint must be obtained lawfully and can be located on a beer glass, doorknob or any object with a hard surface. Corroborating evidence is required to ascertain the identity of these thieves.’ The £1,000 reward will then be paid to the charity of the ‘bounty hunter’s choice’, as the posters put it.
The poster can be downloaded here.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:57
Prosecuted for incitement to what? If, as the posters claim, capturing these people’s fingerprints is not illegal, how can planning to do so be illegal?
Or have they passed some law making it an offence to treat politicians the way they treat us?
Some of those people’s attitudes seem to be getting dangerously close to those of King Charles I and Marie Antoinette – and look what happened to them. (Or am I committing one of the thousands of new offences created by this government by saying that?)
April 18th, 2008 at 23:25
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