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I respect your freedom to choose to ID yourself to the state. Do you respect my freedom to not do so. No, I didn't think so.

You're the one choosing the side of tyranny.

Thank God there is at least one person who understands clearly what this is all about; Tyranny.

It makes me sick to my stomach to read the robotic stock replies, "I havent got anything to hide", "They already use SSN, so why not", and all of these other assemply line arguments from these pathetic drones who couldnt think themeselvs out of a paper bag. They are unprincipled, stupid and are very much the cause of the problem, because if they refused to comply with a national ID card scheme, ANY scheme, it would die instantly. The ones I despise the most are the inured from birth saying, "It doesnt hurt me, Im used to it".

Let me spell it out for you; The State is not the definer of your identity. You do not even have one sole identity; that is an artificial idea created by the state; people have reinvented themselvs since man walked on two legs; what you call yourself in your interaction with anyone else is your afffair, and it is not the right of the state to indellably brand you with a single identity, which of course, is entirely for their own purposes.

Anyone that acceps the state being the arbiter of their identity is a servant, a piece of property, and should be flushed down the toliet with the rest of the shit. [...]

"There should be more checks on the use of information collected through supermarket loyalty cards, Home Secretary David Blunkett has suggested.

In a speech, Mr Blunkett said the cards produced key details about people's shopping habits but were accepted because they were run by private firms. People should not distrust ID cards because they are a state idea, he said.

Mr Blunkett later said he had no loyalty cards himself and had borrowed the Nectar card to illustrate his point."

"Such a database would prevent people travelling to America having to pay $100 on every visit for a biometric visa, he suggested."

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Indie label Seed Records says it will be forced to close following the London Underground's cancellation of two shows tonight and tomorrow at Aldwych Tube Station.

The shows were supposed to have been a fourth birthday celebration for the east London-based label, featuring performances from all Seed acts as well as Warp artists and acts such as Coil. However, the shows were cancelled at the 11th hour by London Underground due to "safety considerations".

A London Underground spokeswoman says third party contractors had been carrying out safety improvements at the disused station but had overrun their schedule, meaning it was not considered safe enough to hand back to the control of the London Underground.

But Seed label manager Josh Doherty says the company had known for months the work would overrun yet formal notification - in which Seed was advised to find an alternative venue - arrived via email three hours before the first night was due to open. The night had cost Seed £10,000 and attracted mainstream press publicity.

"The label will go under," he says. "We can't afford this and our reputation has been destroyed. We spent four years building this label up and it's taken a day to destroy it."

Seed specialises in new acts of all genres.

http://www.musicweek.com/news/news_page.asp?newsid=5117

Tweedy: If they succeed, it will damage the culture and industry they say they're trying to save.

What if there was a movement to shut down libraries because book publishers and authors were up in arms over the idea that people are reading books for free? It would send a message that books are only for the elite who can afford them.

http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

WIRED: What's your take on this whole copyright controversy? Is file-sharing out of control?

Its all kicking off today; this article about Numbers Stations was on the front cover of WiredNews, beneath the interview qouted (yes, "qouted") above. Then, there is an interview with the Beastie Boys who are on the cover of the waste paper waster which has the quote emphasized from a former Talking Head.

The infection spreads. The analogies replicate.