{"id":157,"date":"2006-03-29T19:31:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-03-29T19:31:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:31:22","slug":"the-guantlet-has-been-thrown-at-your-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"The Guantlet has been thrown at your feet…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So now there is no choice. You must take a stand. Will you continue to be a free man, or submit to being a numbered citizen?<\/p>\n

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ID card deadlock comes to an end<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Labour’s manifesto promised ID cards would be voluntary<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The battle over the government’s controversial ID Cards Bill has ended after peers accepted a compromise deal.<\/strong>Under the compromise, anyone who renews a passport will have their details put on a national ID database – but will not have to get a card until 2010.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“The amendment preserves the integrity of the National Identity Register by ensuring that everyone who applies for, or renews a passport or other designated document has their biometric information and other identity details placed on the register,” he [Burn’em] said.<\/p>\n

“However, it also goes towards meeting the concerns of those who have argued that the card itself should not be compulsory at this stage by allowing those who apply for or renew their passport before 1 January 2010 to ‘opt out’ of being issued the ID card itself, even though their identity details will be entered on to the register.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Do you see yet? The Lords, for all their worthy bluster, cannot prevent ID cards when the government agrees to abide by the exact wording<\/strong><\/em> of their manifesto. A card will not be compulsory, but you will<\/em><\/strong> still be tagged.<\/p>\n

You know what to do. You have been told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now there is no choice. You must take a stand. Will you continue to be a free man, or submit to being a numbered citizen? ID card deadlock comes to an end Labour’s manifesto promised ID cards would be voluntary The battle over the government’s controversial ID Cards Bill has ended after peers accepted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}