Why You Should Resist the National ID Card

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Why You Should Resist the National ID Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why You Should Resist the National ID Card

 

Prison Planet | September 16 2005

 

 

 

This piece focuses on the introduction of the British national ID card

but the same principles can be applied in any country.

 

 

1) A government engaging in escalating criminal actions and becoming

more and more secretive should not be watching and tracking us as if

we're all criminals. The same goes for CCTV surveillance. That's not

freedom. Would you let a convicted murderer and pedophile watch your

child 24/7?

 

 

The often peddled mantra of 'why should you care if you have nothing

to hide?' is manifestly ridiculous in light of the fact that we have a

government that has everything to hide and yet we're the ones under

suspicion.

 

Should it concern us that our government shredded hundreds of

thousands of documents before a 1st January Freedom of Information

deadline? Why should the government care about freedom of information

if they have nothing to hide?

 

But they did care enough to order this mass shredding.

 

We are told by the government to make our lives completely transparent

or go to jail while the government itself becomes more secretive than

ever before.

 

Why should they know everything about me when they won't tell me

anything about them?

 

Would you walk up to a gang of criminals and give them your credit

card and PIN number?

 

 

 

2) The government told us that the ID card would make our information

more secure. Blair said this would protect, not infringe our

liberties. And how did they propose paying for it? By selling the

information of 44 million British citizens to private companies. How

secure is that?

 

 

 

 

 

3) As a perspective on how governing powers use ID cards, consider the

fact that residents of Fallujah in Iraq were finger scanned, given

retina scans and ID cards just to be able to leave and enter the

village. Every citizen is treated as a potential insurgent and is

given an ID card. Is that how our government views us all, as

potential insurgents?

 

So, what do you have to hide? is the wrong question. The question

should be, why does the government need to know everything about me?

 

 

 

4) ID cards will not stop terrorism. Even the Home Secretary Charles

Clarke admitted it after the London bombings. In addition, the Blair

government has been caught faking terror alerts to push through

increased power. Firstly in the case of the Ricin plot that never was

and also an attack on Canary Wharf which was admitted to be totally

scripted. Furthermore, the so-called London bombing mastermind was an

MI6 asset. Reams of evidence point to the bombings being an inside

job, one of the purposes of which was making British people accept ID

cards. Large scale terrorist atrocities worldwide always lead back to

government perpetrators. In this instance it is important to recall

Herman Goering's quote,

 

 

 

" Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders

of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple

matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist

dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or

no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the

leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being

attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and

exposing the country to greater danger. "

 

 

 

5) Top criminologists have gone public to say that ID cards will

actually result in an increase in identity theft, not a decrease as

the government claims.

 

 

 

6) The introduction of the national ID card is one step further

towards the mandatory implantation of ID chips in all British

citizens. Does this sound outlandish? Implantable chip technology has

been in existence for a decade and discussions on ID chipping humans

is in the news regularly. Tommy Thompson, the former Health and Human

Services Secretary in the Bush administration, had a chip implanted

and is now touring the country lauding the virtues of ID chips. During

the the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George W. Bush's

nominee for Supreme Court chief justice, Roberts was questioned by

Senator Joseph R. Biden on whether he would rule against a mandatory

implantable microchip to track American citizens.

 

 

 

7) The purpose of government is to serve the people, not control them.

Any scheme of national registration is alien to the basic fundamental

principles of a supposed free country.

 

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Related: Say No To National ID

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/160905sayno.htm

 

This great song from renowned British artist Ian Brown is a well

crafted tirade against the introduction of national ID cards.

 

 

 

Related: http://www.no2id.net

 

Related: http://www.nocards.org/

 

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