ID Cards by 2010

The Tory party rolled over today. They are accepting a compromise proposal which means we won't be forced to have a card issued with a passport until 2010. Well the politicians are talking as though it were the idea of carrying a plastic card that is objectionable. If that were the case then ATMs would not be so popular!

The point is that the government wants to create a huge national database with information on every British citizen. This fundamentally alters the relationship between us and the state. We have only vague promises about how this information will be used. Will this national identity database and the Police national database be merged? Who knows the possibilities are endless.

Welcome to 1984.

Why have the British people been so passive, why are we not rioting in the streets against tyranny? I know of no-one who supports this proposal. What is most telling is that the rationale for the project keeps shifting just as the reasons for going to war changed over time. First to prevent terrorism, now to prevent benifit fraud, perhaps in the future they will admit there use for making stop and search powers easier to use. Please remember that these stop and search powers were greatly increased not long ago by David Blunkett.

Say NO to ID cards write to your MP today.

Find his or her address at http://politics.guardian.co.uk and then enter your post code in the ask aristotle box.