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UK Government Passes ID Card Bill

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-off-the-inevitable dept.

cowbutt writes "The two houses of the UK government, the elected House of Commons and the House of Lords have agreed a compromise on Labour's ID cards bill, after Conservative peers accepted a Labour amendment. Under the new amendment, anyone renewing a designated document (e.g. passport) will be able to opt-out of getting a card until 2010, but will still have their details put on the National ID Register immediately."

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  1. A work-around by cogg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Living in Northern Ireland, with dual nationality I'll be going for an Irish passport, instead of a British one. If a British Driving license is a "designated document", I might just have to shenanigan enough to be able to get an Irish Driving license too, come renewal time.

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  2. The T-shirt I want to wear through security ... by timothy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I'm at the airport, I want to have the following T-shirt:

    FRONT TEXT: I'm carrying a picture of myself.
    BACK TEXT: Do you feel safer yet?

    "Proper" ID (that is, rigorously checked, hard to fake, and accurate), for all of the good civil liberty arguments against it, might actually prevent certain types of crime. Them's the breaks.

    Would it deter people who don't mind dying in order to obtain a religo-political goal? Well, it didn't deter the September 11 hijackers, at least not all of them.

    The only way to travel free of possible terrorism is if everyone agrees to be schlepped around nude, drugged, and packed in Jello. Including the terrorists.

    timothy

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  3. Re:Uh oh by RexRhino · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yes, we'll still have Bush, but if we can a Democrat majority in Congress, especially a democrat majority with a fucking spine, Bush and them will spend the next two years fighting until we can hopefully replace all of them in '08 and start the long path of recovery...

    You are joking, right? I am no Republican supporter, but you realize that Clinton and the Democrats proposed a National ID Card in the 1990s, and it was the Republicans who opposed it? And the National ID in the UK was pushed by the Labor Party, who would be far-left by U.S. standards.

    Seriously, how twisted by your own propoganda do you have to be to think that Democrats are not rabid supporters of the police state? The Democrats and the Left love the idea of a police state just as much as the right.

    Perhaps if the Libertarians, or the Greens, or someone else got into congress, we could begin reversing the trend. But don't try to pretend for a second that your party doesn't 100% support Totalitarianism, without reservations.

  4. Some Context for the Uninitiated by delirium_9 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Here's a Guardian link with every article and editorial they have on the issue. Lots of good stuff here.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/idcards/0,,1373591,00.ht ml

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