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UK ID Card Scheme Has Not Been Defeated
Déjà vu as mainstream media announces
the demise of the identity card scheme for the umpteenth
time
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"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant
struggle." - George Orwell.
Headlines everywhere announced yesterday that
the British government has been defeated on ID cards, and that
a great victory has been won for civil liberties. The problem
is that we have heard this several times before and it is simply
not true.
A batch of typical headlines follows:
UK
dumps plans for compulsory ID cards
ID
card plan climbdown is a victory for commonsense
Last
rites for ID cards read by Johnson
The
end of ID cards?
However, if you read further than two paragraphs
into the articles you discover the truth of the matter.
"The announcement means that the only people
for whom it will be compulsory to have an identity card will
be foreign citizens. However, the Government is to press ahead
with creating a national identity register that, from 2011-12,
will include the details of everyone who applies for a passport."
reports the London
Times.
Next week will also see a debate on legislation that will seek
to make it an offence to withhold details of a change of address
or name from the government's register.
Indeed, the government is actually accelerating
the roll-out of identity cards in the UK.
As we have constantly highlighted, the threat is not the actual
ID card itself, but the biometric
database.
In essence, nothing has changed, the cards will still be introduced
and the identity register will go ahead as planned.
(Article continues below)
The mainstream media began to promulgate the headlines yesterday
after jumping on the comments of the new Home Secretary, Alan
Johnson, who said that ID cards "will never be compulsory"
for British citizens.
However, Johnson also said "There will be significant
benefits to individuals from holding an identity card, which
will become the most convenient, secure and affordable way of
asserting identity in everyday life."
This is key. Yes, the card will not be compulsory, you will
have a choice. However, as soon as cash machines, supermarket
checkouts and other everyday items are linked in with the ID
card database, it will become virtually impossible to live without
one.
Furthermore, if you wish to hold a passport, which you need
in order to travel anywhere beyond the border, you will have
to be entered into the ID database.
The government never openly admitted to the compulsory nature
of the ID scheme in the first instance anyway. It was only via
suppressed Whitehall papers,
released under the Freedom of Information Act, that the agenda
for compulsory uptake was ever discovered.
The government has been caught lying and misleading on the
ID issue so frequently that it is now clear that anything they
say about it cannot be trusted and is usually the exact opposite
of the reality of the situation.
If this current defeat of the ID scheme all feels familiar,
it's because it is, this has all happened before, several times.
In
January 2006, headlines around the country
announced that ID cards had been defeated in The House of Lords.
In reality, the Lords simply
held off the compulsory element of the scheme by voting for
an amendment requiring a separate Act of Parliament be passed
to make this so.
In the months that followed,
the issue went back and fourth between the House of Commons
and the House of Lords and was "defeated"
no
less than five times.
Now here we are again, three
years down the line having the same endless debate.
It is clear that ID cards and
the national biometric Database are part of a long term agenda
that has been mapped out into the distant future by influential
powerbrokers that will always hold sway with the government
in the UK, whichever party it is represented by.
As proven time and time again
by history, the attempt to erode the freedom of the people by
government will never be "defeated", it will only
ever be held off by permanent vigilance and action to the contrary.
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