Renew your passport in May 2006 Refuse Compulsory Registration
April 19th, 2006
Why you should renew your passport.
The Identity Cards Act 2006 turns your passport into a one-way ticket to control of your identity by the government. It means lifelong surveillance, and untold bureaucracy. This website, produced by the NO2ID campaign, is about how you can renew your passport and avoid being forced to register on the ID scheme database.
Please renew your passport in May.
Our factsheet [hyperlinks to the right] explains how and why. Download it, pass it on to your friends, or print it out and distribute it.
You can apply to renew your passport online right now at the UK Passport Service website or request that they post you a paper form to fill in yourself.
Act now. Protect yourself later.
If we all act together, we’ll send a message to the politicians and bureaucrats who think that they can take control of who we are, and to the companies that hope to make a fortune — at our expense — helping them.
You may have heard that you’ll be able to opt out of having an ID card if you renew your passport before 1st January 2010. But the card is not the point. Even if you chose not to have it, you would still have to pay for it. And you will get no choice about attending an official interview, producing numerous personal documents to be recorded, and having your fingerprints and eye scans taken for the records.
“Anyone who opts out in my opinion is foolish.”
— Charles Clarke, on the passing of the Identity Cards Act 2006.
Ignore the sneering.
Once you are on the Register, you will never get off until it is abolished. But you’ll be exposed to all the risks and dangers of the scheme immediately. The Home Office is building the most complex and intrusive ID control system in the world. It will certainly go wrong.
Once you are on the Register — with or without a card — you will also be forced to keep all the details that are kept about you up to date (and sort out any government errors).
Once you are on the Register you will face penalty charges for not telling the Home Office if you move house or if any other of your registered details change.
Far from being ‘foolish’, renewing your passport to avoid all this is just plain common sense. In the 10 years that follow, NO2ID and many others will be working to end the ID scheme and keep Britain a free country.
“… anyone who feels strongly enough about the linkage not to want to be issued with an ID card in the initial phase will be free to surrender their existing passport and apply for a new passport before the designation order takes effect.”
— Charles Clarke, on 21st March 2006.
The Home Secretary himself has said you can do it. Don’t delay — he might change his mind….
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http://www.renewforfreedom.org/
Criminal scumbag Andy Burnham has said:
The warning came after The Home Office yesterday said private sector engagement will accelerate over the next few months, so project infrastructure is up and running before the next general election.
Andy Burnham, the minister in charge of the scheme, explained a rapid roll out of its key technologies would make David Cameron’s “throwaway” pledge to “pull it down” irrelevant.
Rebuffing the Tory leader’s remark, Mr Burnham added it would be a “fait accompli” by the 2008 or 2009 expected date of the next general election, The Financial Times reported.
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What this actually means is that the Nazis understand that if the system is either not up and running or not full of people it can be scrapped.
This is why it is absolutely essential that no one registers for any reason whatsoever. A system that is either not online or that is pitifully empty will be much easier to shut down politically. If it is up and running and is full of millions of people, then it becomes an extremely valuable tool of opression, and no government will be able to resist using it for its own ends.