ID CARDS - Not compulsory, just entitlement.

The government are attempting to peddle the ID cards through a "soft sell" route. According to Sky News, dire Home Sec. Jacqui Smith is trying to soft sell us the idea of ID cards.

The indications are that she will try a new approach to convincing the public to support the proposals.

Forget the 'hard sell' - it looks like the Home Office is trying the 'soft soap' instead.

A source who has seen a draft of the speech has described the tone as "conciliatory".

Instead of government ministers and police officers talking tough and insisting they need Britons to carry ID cards to beat terrorism, the emphasis will shift to persuading people they be missing out if they fail to sign up to the scheme.

Thanks all the same but every instinct tells me that you and the rest of this government - unable to keep our information safe - are not to be trusted, so I will pass if it's all the same.

"Entitlement" seems to be the buzzword and the card is being portrayed as the way to access state benefits and public services.

The timetable for implementing the cards is much clearer too.

So lets get this right, their arguement is that we need to pay for an ID card to access services that I am already entitled to and have already paid for through my taxes over the years! An of course when people start using the cards you can bet that every agency will start brow beating its "customers" - thats me and you, to start using the ID Card to speed up the process.

Despite the fact that both a driving license and UK passport are fine for dealing with the private sector, both are photo ID and both suitable for 99.9% of agencies and private companies.

The UK Libertarian Party's Leader, Patrick Vessey said:

“Both ID cards and the accompanying database fundamentally change the relationship between individuals and the state.

“The Libertarian Party is utterly opposed to this cataloguing of the people of Britain.

“In a truly free society, and provided that they harm nobody else by doing so, every person should be able to go where they like, and call themselves what they like, without having to beg permission of anyone else.

“Instead, the Labour government feels justified in tagging and labelling us as though we were mere livestock—bovine automata to be herded and tracked at our masters' convenience.”

Livestock, the perfect word for how the communists of New Labour see the UK public.

Another aspect is the shifty fucking dealings by a former cabinet minister and former Home Sec. David Blunkett who keeps very quiet about how he has since last March been chairman of the international advisory committee of Entrust Inc, the Texas based security company which hopes to provide software for the UK ID cards system.

Why so quiet about that one? He bangs on about how an ID Card would make us all safe from moslem terrorists under the bed, despite the fact that his own government lets in radical clerics and has failed to enforce controls on inward migration.

Then claims that if we were all on the DNA database, that we would all be safer from criminals. This from his government that jails OAP's for failing to pay council tax and yet lets out serious criminals early. I fact if they go to Pencoed Open Prison just up the road from me they can - and do - walk out the front door!

Yet not a word about vested interests for Mr David Blunkett.

So thanks all the same but New Labour can stick their ID Cards up their arse. Not compulsory, well unless you want to do any of this lot:

• Travel
• Get a bank account
• Get a loan
• Prove who we are to the police
  
• Buy property

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