ID cards 'should be compulsory' (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

The Lord Chancellor has said ID cards should be made compulsory if introduced in the UK.

Lord Falconer told the BBC that the only way to get full benefit from the scheme was for people without a passport to carry one.

Prime Minister Tony Blair has said the government backs ID cards and fears over civil liberties are "misplaced".
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Plans for ID cards have been rejected by the Lords, who want to know how much the project would cost.
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more at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4633822.stm

Oh, irony...it's the House of Lords who may end up protecting UK citizens from their elected gov't (and for the wrong reason, too). The Brits need to dump this Bush**-kissing PM.

[roguevalley]

1. Just like internal passports in the Soviet Union. Welcome to hell.

Go lords.

[Greeby]

2. Errr, how?

It wasn't down to us last year, unless one of the 24,000 numbnuts who directly voted for him is a DU'er, which I doubt

[benEzra]

3. OK, what measures from Orwell's book have the UK not intro'd yet? NT

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. Y'all remember Lord Gould's comments

"This is not some silly idea of the phoney left. It is a mainstream idea of modern times. It is a new kind of identity and a new kind of freedom. I respect the noble Lords? views, but it would help if they respected the fact that the Bill and the identity cards represent the future: a new kind of freedom and a new kind of identity."
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/51115-19.htm

(that's Philip Gould, Blair's chief pollster & political strategist who was made a Lord in 2004)

[Selatius]

5. Orwellian.

He may as well have said, "Freedom is Slavery."

[OKthatsIT]

6. the corporate CABAL is making its move...here and in the UK

and I dont believe in so called eco-terrorists...what bullshit.