Now is the time to reapply for your passport... before they open the 'Investigation Centres'.

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Misty

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 12:36 AM

Now is the time to reapply for your passport... before they open

the 'Investigation Centres'.

 

 

Nigel Farage: Now is the time to reapply for your passport...

before they open the 'Investigation Centres'.

 

 

If you value your freedom, your privacy and your dignity, now is the

time to reapply for your passport " , said Nigel Farage MEP. " The

Government in the guise of the UK Passport and Identity Service is

opening what it calls 'Interrogation Centres' across the country " .

 

On March 26th the Government will be opening the first group of

'Investigation Centres'.

These centres will be used for what the government is calling

" Authentication by Interview " .

 

The interview will demand; official numbers, addresses for the last few

years, your educational institutions.

 

That information will be used to look up everything that can be found

out about you on all the government and private sector databases they

can lay their hands on: school records, social services, police, credit

checking, family details. All this to build a single dossier on you

containing personal information. This procedure can be described as

" Data-rape " .

 

Over the next year every new applicant will be called in to their

nearest interrogation centre. There you will be fingerprinted and

photographed , and put through what they describe as an " intrusive

interview " to check that you can give answers about private details of

your life that agree with the official ones. If you can, you'll get your

passport. If not... it is not clear, but trying to get a passport under

'false pretences' - if the computer says " no " - could be quite serious.

 

The government has already estimated that 1 in 4 people who apply under

this new procedure will have to cancel their trip because they don't get

their passport in time.

 

" It is true that the Labour Party is the only one that supports the ID

cards, " said Nigel Farage, " but anybody who applies for a new passport

between now and the end of this government will have their files kept

forever. The answer is simple. Apply for a passport now, or risk the

government holding all your information on file " .

 

ENDS

 

Notes for editors

The campaign against the interrogation centres is being run by No2ID

http://www..no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php#wher