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UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents
craigavonite, writing "It's looking like the UK is in for biometric ID cards within the next few years, despite widespread protest from groups such as 'NO2ID,'" excerpts from an article at the BBC describing a UK identify card to be issued starting later this year: "The biometric card will be issued from November, initially to non-EU students and marriage visa holders. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the cards would allow people to 'easily and securely prove their identity.' Critics say the roll-out to some immigrants is a 'softening up' exercise for the introduction of identity cards for everyone."
this is just the first part, sooner or later everone will have one, so your argument is null and void. As well as pretty stupid.
For now you can claim that you don't need a card. This will pass with time. That is the entire plan. Start small, then slowly get everyone to have to ID themselves.
Sometimes you wonder how the goverment can introduce such schemes without people protesting and then you see people like you and you know why. The voter is stupid.
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I would be totally impressed, judging by the sheer incompetency of the UK government, if anything like 1984 happens.
Sure they may try, but frankly, its just not going to happen.
Allow me to break your spirit. I personally believe if there is any nation that will achieve 1984-dom first then it's Great Britain. What says "Not Orwellian" about this:
4 Million surveillance cameras (avg. person gets filmed 300 times a day)
Citizens have to agree to full biometric scan and filing in order to apply for a passport (quote by government: If you don't want to give us your prints that's fine, you don't NEED a passport, you can stay at home).
Engage in terrorism (call me what you want but that the 07/07/07 attacks on the London commuter busses overlapped with a terror training session on the exact same day, in the exact same place at the exact same time according to the government speaks of an inside job to me, at least they knew what was going to happen) and torture (if all "Allied" forces in the Bush coalition used the CIA flights and EU torture prisons why would the Brits not do so?)
To me that all sounds very much like an upcoming police state, sure they don't YET force people to work for government businesses and undergo brain washes but that can't be too far off in UK security policy.