This is what the skin of the new tyranny will look like. For all intents and purposes, this looks like an ordinary reciept from the supermarket Waitrose. However, upon close inspection, you will see a single line that separates this reciept from every other one you have ever taken away from a shop. The person who made this purchase, bought a bottle of wine with her groceries, which included bread, fruit, tampons, soap, bacon, soup, mineral water, green beans and a bar of chocolate. Because she bought alcohol, and in this case, paid by credit card, her identity needed to be checked to be sure that she was over 18, and that ‘she was who she said she was’.

That is why the line ‘NIR VERIFIED’ Is in there.

Her ID card was swiped at the till. This means that her unique NIR number is linked to her Mastercard, since she didn’t pay cash and bought alcohol. It means that all her purchases are now linked to her number, as well as being linked to all the RFID tags on each item she bought.
It means that the government has a record of where she was at that precise moment. They know what she was doing; shopping at Waitrose. As she walks up the kings road doing her shopping by credit card, the government will be able to follow her from shop to shop as she spends spends spends.

On the surface, this reciept is as innocent as any other. You will not see the NIR in action as you are verified again and again, but the evil will be there, gradually accumulating the dust of your activities.

Do not register for the NIR. Renew your passport right now. Tell all your friends about this abominable project, and implore them to absolutely disobey.

Or take the consequences.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 19th, 2006 at 1:57 pm and is filed under NIR.