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UK's Blair Dismisses Online Anti ID-Card Petition
An anonymous reader writes "Prime Minister Tony Blair has responded personally via email to 28,000 online petitioners opposing the UK's planned identity card scheme, and has closed the online petition. The email reads: 'We live in a world in which people, money and information are more mobile than ever before. Terrorists and international criminal gangs increasingly exploit this to move undetected across borders and to disappear within countries. Terrorists routinely use multiple identities — up to 50 at a time... ID cards which contain biometric recognition details and which are linked to a National Identity Register will make this much more difficult.'"
Who says democracy in the UK is dead?
27,964 signatures... naaah, we know better right Blair? They're really 559 new and improved terrorists with "up to 50 identities" each!
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
Introduce ID cards in Baghdad then. If the mortars stop falling and the bombs stop going off we'll know we're onto a winner won't we? won't we?
If it had anything to do with welfare he would say that he needs it so he can make sure that if anyone doesn't deserve welfare (namely, everybody who either works and therefore doesn't need it and everybody who doesn't work and therefore is too lazy to live) he doesn't receive it.
Umm, isn't that exactly one of the proposed "benefits" of the ID card - that it will reduce benefits fraud?
what is he going to do, shooting all tourists?
Not all tourists, only Brazilians.
At some point, somewhere, the entire internet will be found to be illegal.