ID rather not, thanks.
February 22nd, 2006
Actors (from left) Waqar Siddiqui, Rizwan Ahmed and Arfman Usman with Michael Winterbottom and detainee Rhuhel Ahmed
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The actors who star in movie The Road to Guantanamo were questioned by police at Luton airport under anti-terrorism legislation, it has emerged.The men, who play British inmates at the detention camp, were returning from the Berlin Film Festival where the movie won a Silver Bear award.
One of the actors, Rizwan Ahmed, said a police officer asked him if he intended to make any more “political” films.
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‘Excuse me sir, is that your beard? Come with me, please.’
The idiots stopping people like this do nothing but exhibit themselves as stoopid, blinkered bigots.
Feeling safer now?
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I have been wondering about my freedom to travel in the near future. I just got a new passport, valid until 2016. Under current proposals, I won’t have to submit to the NIR until 2016 when I renew this passport. Voluntarilry, of course!
So when I get a new passport, I assume I will be able to opt out of ID carding, as the system is voluntary.
Except we all know I won’t be able to opt out, as voluntary is only a word bandied around to appease the spineless gimps on the Labour backbenches who apparently cannot distinguish between ‘voluntary’ and ‘must submit to data-rape if you apply for a passport’.
So, it’s voluntary unless I wish to leave the country.
So far so clear. Now, we all know I won’t be getting an ID card. But where does that leave me regarding international travel? Is my government, the people who serve me, going to keep me under ‘home-nation arrest’ until I let them scan my retina and sample my DNA?
Does this infringe european human rights legislation?
Is an passport any less of a valid travel document just because it has an arbitratry expiration date? One day in 2016 I can go where I like, the next I am a prisoner.
This post is vague. It was in my head as I couldn’t sleep last night.
Bu tit’s the thought that counts.