ID Cards: the death rattle
November 7th, 2008Yesterday there was a deluge of PR paid propaganda – bullshit if you will – trying to sell the ID Card with the hideous prostitute Jacqui Smith making outrageous claims.
The lying lickspittle bastard repeater journalists at the BBC tweaked this first article during the day for maximum impact and under orders. We grabbed both pages.
First we have this:
12:20 GMT, Thursday, 6 November 2008
and then we have this, later in the day:
15:57 GMT, Thursday, 6 November 2008
The title of the page changed from ‘Shops may take ID card biometrics’ to ‘People ‘can’t wait for ID cards’. The first title is obviously more pertinent, more astonishing and alarming because of the implications of shops taking Biometrics. Later, it was changed to a pure and very cheesy propaganda headline after pressure no doubt from the office of that kebab eating monster. There have been seven versions so far.
The facts of the matter remain unchanged however.
HMG actually plans to allow people to enroll in the ID Card scheme / NIR from inside Tescos.
Do you know what this means? It means that the NIR is going to be full of bad entries. People will be able to go to Tescos and get themselves onto the NIR claiming to be someone who they are not, maybe even you, which is the absolute opposite of what the government has been saying all along was the purpose of this vile and pointless database and its associated card. Perhaps that is exactly what they want – you to be frightened of someone getting there first and stealing your identity. “Claim your identity now before someone else does!” will be the call.
This ugly, chinless, subhuman, totalitarian garbage actually claims that people ‘can’t wait for ID Cards’; this is the sound of sheer desperation my friends. Look at the comments on BBQ’s ‘Have Your Say’. I think Jacqui Smith is a delusional liar and the only people she has been speaking to are figments of her insane and deeply troubled mind:
Added: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:38 GMT 07:38 UK
Not one bit! And I won’t be buying or carrying one!
This is another snooping measure from the NuLabour Gestapo state. I make this appeal to everybody to refuse to buy or carry this insidious document. If you receive a communication from any department of the Fascist NuLabour apparatus about it cut it up and send it back, unstamped, to some government department!
Let us call time on this now!
Robert Phillifent, Whitley Bay
Recommended by 266 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:12 GMT 09:12 UK
ID cards:
– nobody wants them
– they won’t make us any safer
– the government will lose all the sensitive information anywayHokey Cokey, london, United Kingdom
Recommended by 257 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:13 GMT 09:13 UK
Why dont they just tatoo or brand us all? We could all be marked with a number at birth to make sure we were all identifiable.
Hold on, something in the back of my mind tells me that a similar method to this may have been used before?
How did that turn out?
[Free_Scotland], Grangemouth, Scotland
Recommended by 204 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:11 GMT 09:11 UK
Remember everyone – it’s not just a piece of plastic, it’s the vast database behind it too… all your data, addresses, accounts, policies, pensions, all of it nicely formatted and ready to be left on trains, in car parks, in brief cases, lost laptops etc etc
Chris Chris
Recommended by 201 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:49 GMT 07:49 UK
I do not think these cards will do much to improve security. Instead, we will have one card which proves who you are, and when this is cracked and cloned by organised crime (and believe me it will be) it will make avoiding detection and stealing identity much easier for them.
Matt Gallop, Brighton
Recommended by 181 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:49 GMT 07:49 UK
ID cards for the whole population once again punishes the general population for the lack of control of immigrants. When will the government target risk groups & stop wasting everybodys time by monitoring the activities of everyone.
John Doe, United Kingdom
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Added: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:12 GMT 09:12 UK
What is it in the words ‘this ID card system would be unworkable’ does Jacqui Spliff not understand? Security specialists have stated that it would not work and cards can be cloned.copied or falsified with todays technology. Aftter the many fiascos of data going missing, how many times is it now? Would you trust this lot with digitalised information about you? No chance. With the billions wasted on useless IT systems by this government I wouldn’t trust them to run a raffle. Forget it Spliff.
Maximus, Boxgrove UK
Recommended by 168 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:36 GMT 07:36 UK
Yet another money wasting scheme from our illustrious Government.
They are not listening to the electorate, nobody wants ID cards, and as far as I know, nobody has been able to make them “secure”.
Plus can we trust them with our data? Based on countless examples over recent years its obvious the answer is no.
At a time when the UK needs all the money it can get, to pay its billions on previous commitments, you would have thought that schemes like this would have been postponed.
clive hamilton, woking
Recommended by 163 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:08 GMT 09:08 UK
This is not about terrorism! It’s about controlling the population and keeping tabs on them and their movements. Liabor are control freaks and they want to micro-manage every aspect of our live’s and that includes us. We should say no to this and do all we can to stop ID cards from becoming a reality. Is there not already enough information about each and every one of us in their databases? Do I not already have ID we carry? Why should I pay for something I don’t want or need?
Neil, Brighton
Recommended by 147 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:39 GMT 07:39 UK
How many times do we need this same debate? According to the government itself, the checks that should be performed for airport workers are much more stringent that those for the ID card.
In what was does that improve security of the public?
Once again, the government presses ahead with projects to catalogue every citizen and no-one appears willing to stop them in their tracks.
RJ, Zurich
Recommended by 147 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:11 GMT 09:11 UK
So, I have a birth certificate, photo driving license, passport credit cards and more and yet I need ANOTHER piece of ID. Can someone tell me why?
Unless this would replace the driving license and passport, it is, in my opinion, a ridiculous waste of time and money. As for fighting terrorism…..is having an ID card going to stop someone making a bomb? The logic escapes me.
Hard Working, Bracknell, United Kingdom
Recommended by 143 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:46 GMT 07:46 UK
To try to kid us that this is not a Gestapo act, Clown says, we must have an ID card but will not have to carry it at all times. So when a terrorist is asked to present his/her card at the police station within a week……!!
Yes I think that will definitely deter terrorists from blowing up Britain.[anotherjames]
Recommended by 125 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:48 GMT 07:48 UK
Don’t they already have ID cards or security checks for “people working in specific sensitive roles or locations” in airports? I’m pretty sure that there is already an ID systetm in place for airport workers.
This is just a sneaky way to try and tenderise public acceptance towards nationwide cataloguing. You give an inch…
Blue-eyed cyclops, Norwich, United Kingdom
Recommended by 125 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 07:40 GMT 07:40 UK
ID cards are just a scam to take an ID card fee from every adult in the UK. They’re a stealth tax, nothing more.
anon., UK
Recommended by 119 peopleAdded: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 09:07 GMT 09:07 UK
The only way I can see ID Cards helping in the fight against terrorism is if they have sharp corners, and you can jab them in to someone’s eyes to stop them blowing something up.
Or maybe – if they were really big and made of metal and teflon – you could hold it up in front of you to protect yourself from a bomb blast.
Or you could jam them in a door to stop it opening and letting in a person with a bomb…..
The possibilities are endless!
[angelholme], Blackpool, United Kingdom
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Methinks that the argument is lost Jacqui, you piece of trash. Almost all of the comments are violently against the idea of ID cards and this database.
The first comment is one of the best, and it is what we have been recommending for years; simply do not respond or react to anything that is sent to you. If everyone does it, the whole system dies, and that is that.
As we pointed out before, the unions are finally waking up to this problem and are going to cause trouble:
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The Unite union, which represents airport workers, has said staff are already extensively vetted before being given airside passes.
Airport unions have been resisting the scheme, saying workers would have to pay £30 for a card to do their jobs.
However, it is understood that the cards would be issued free during the evaluation period.
Airlines including British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and EasyJet, also spoke out against the plan, saying it was “unjustified” and would not improve security.
On plans to involve retailers and the Post Office in the ID cards scheme, a spokesman said it would be “more convenient” for people than the government’s original plan to set up enrolment centres in large population centres.
The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) would continue to carry out enrolment at its offices but a spokesman said it also wanted to “drive down costs using market forces and competition” and was talking to a “range of high street retailers and other organisations”.
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I see. They will issue them free for the testers. Last time I checked, when you test something for someone, you get PAID for doing so, and ‘free’ is not paying. It does however mean that they have to eat the cost of rolling out this test because the reaction against the ID card has been so hostile. Finally.
Don’t you think its interesting that IPS wants to “drive down costs using market forces and competition”? If the market can be used in this way to drive down costs, why not let the market take care of the entire ‘problem’?
What we would have is a market response to the problem of ID, and we would get the most efficient solution, in the same way that the market has provided the most efficient solution to the provision of universal and dirt cheap cellular telephone coverage and access.
The problem with letting the market solve the ‘problem’ of ID is that there is no ID problem to be solved in the first place. Business can carry on totally successfully without ID cards; in fact, ID cards are a form of friction, slowing down commerce, not facilitating it in any way.
Only the government wants ID cards. Business doesn’t need them (like the absurd fascist nonsense of having to produce a Passport or ID to get a SIM card), the public does not need them or want them; only the chinless, foul toothed fascists like Jacqui Smith and her equally repulsive predecessors want them, because they are bereft of imagination, fascist in nature and on the payroll of the venal vendors who are in line for billions of pounds for generations.
Now on to the next, most revolting, astonishing and inexplicable article from propaganda central, AKA BBC News:
Foreign students: Identity cards
The UK Border Agency is to issue the first identity cards to foreign nationals who officials say are most at risk of abusing immigration rules – non-EU students and those on a marriage or civil partnership visa.
But how do foreign students feel about carrying identity cards and being targeted as “risk” categories?
WON JAE, 20, FROM KOREA, STUDYING PSYCHOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL)
Won Jae from Korea, studying at UCL
I think it would be OK to carry an identity card, so long as it wasn’t discriminatory.
At the moment if I go anywhere off campus I have to carry my passport as my identity, for example if I am buying alcoholic drinks, so it would be better to have a card. So long as it’s not discriminating me against UK people, it’s fine.
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First of all, every student except two (one from the US and one from Nigeria) on that page comes from a country where they have state issued ID cards, and have had them for decades. These people are the most sheepish, inured sad slaves imaginable. Won Jae is very well trained in double think:
I think it would be OK to carry an identity card, so long as it wasn’t discriminatory.
Well done Dear Leader in training! 2+2=5!
And you absolutely do not have to carry your passport to buy alcoholic drinks you moron. Learn something about the country you are studying in, it might help transform you from a slave into a human being.
What can you say to a parade of people like this?
Britain is a country where you used to be able to show, just by living here, that you do not need to have a totalitarian system of constant checks to create a thriving and tolerant society. All the Europeans who cannot imagine living without an ID card could be shown the 4th largest economy in the world doing very well, in fact, better than them, without ID cards and a police state.
Since when is the policy affecting the British public the business of foreign students? For sure, these students (wether they know it or not, and clearly this Korean does not) have rights and should never be compelled to carry an ID card; but since their acceptance of an ID card would inevitably lead to pressure on every British person to have one, why on earth are they being consulted at all, as if their opinion actually matters?
This page from the BBC is one of the most revolting, ill conceived and traitorous that I have ever read. To use foreigners from totalitarian states in this way to apply the force of opinion and change the outcome of a critical battle in the UK is treason, full stop. These people have no intention of living in Britain, and their approval of ID cards, once used to shoe-horn them in would still be here after they have left.
This is a sickening article. It made me so angry that I had to get up and go away for many hours.
The opinions of these people are absolutely irrelevant.
Should we have brought in ID cards in the ’70s because some ignorant Spaniards living under Francisco Franco ‘had no problem with it’ or as this young lady says
MI-YOUNG PARK, 24, KOREA, ENGLISH AT OXFORD HOUSE COLLEGE, LONDON
I think we need identity cards to buy things like alcohol or cigarettes. I have tried to show my Korean card, but they won’t accept it, so I have to carry my passport around with me which is really dangerous.But I’m not staying in London for much longer, I’m applying to Emirates to be a flight attendant.
I think not.
ID cards are morally wrong. It doesn’t matter what anyone’s opinion is, in the same way that murder is wrong no matter who says otherwise. People like Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith do not have any morals, and so they can mass murder and tag everyone like cattle without breaking a sweat, sleeping soundly every night. Those ignorant, annoying students might not have any understanding about ID cards, and may even want them; that does not mean that they are right, or that these foul instruments of totalitarian control should be introduced to Britain. What the Koreans do in their own country is their business, and I do not care about how they choose to live, and their way of life should have no influence or sway over what happens in a free country or in Britain.
To digress for a moment, none of these students seem to understand that if they take this card, it will mean that the police will be stopping and checking them just because they ‘look Korean’. They will be stopped and checked, and everyone else will be stopped and checked for these cards. These students are the trojan horse for this racist nightmare, where everyone will be profiled by what they look like on the spot. We have already been through this many times in the twentieth century…and this is the problem; all of these pathetic students are very young and have no memory or knowledge of the racist Suss Law (UK) and Pass Laws (South Africa) that caused so much friction and problems. They should all know better. They should all have better self correcting self preservation skills that ring alarm bells when someone wants to harm you or your fellow man. But then again, when you are born into a police state, you know nothing but the police state – its the same for the Spanish as it is for the Koreans and the Belgians.
The BBC, by putting on this parade of idiots has sunk to its lowest level ever, and as usual, there is no named person or editor to point the finger at for this scandalous, treasonous, infuriating article.
I have to say that despite all of this evil being thrown in our faces, that I am greatly pleased by the outpouring of hate against the ID card and Jacqui Smith / Neu Labour. It seems that we are actually very close to or on the tipping point now. There is no one left who is saying ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’ except the evil glove puppets in the pay of the vendors and HMG.
This is going to be abandoned completely, and shortly after that, ContactPoint will be scrapped. Gordon Brown has admitted that they can never keep data safe. That means that the children of Britain can never be kept safe once they are on ContactPoint. It means that they can never keep the personal details of these stupid students safe once they are on the NIR. It means that no one will be safe, and this is quite separate from the social ills that will arise from this evil mania for registers.
Once again, the first commenter had it precisely right:
If you receive a communication from any department of the Fascist NuLabour apparatus about it cut it up and send it back, unstamped, to some government department!
This is the only response needed. Make sure that you tell everyone exactly what you are doing and why, and encourage them to do the same, for the sake of themselves and this great country.
Many people died so that we would not have to carry ID cards. I will not dishonor them by giving in like a subhuman.
And neither should you.
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