Knowing me knowing you (UK ID Cards)

Member Name: 1st2thebar

Product:	UK ID Cards
Date:	14/08/09 (88 review reads)
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Advantages: Westminster may just drop income tax due to I D card income

Disadvantages: 'The Mother of Big Brother' will be watching

Knowing me knowing you
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In the midst of deep recessions, comes the will to deploy fear to the masses to take the focus away from the state of a failing economy. These are folk-lore tactics that I would expect from an administration which is too wrapped up with systematic errors across the spectrum. Charles Clarke was the most industrious cabinet minister to fast-track the emergence of ID cards; his buffoon clumsy grasp of what the ID cards consist of, was a cue sign that the so many billion project won't ever reach production while he was at the Home Office. Since then his role has purely been a Labor rebel, his openness is now refreshing and today his stance has completely changed, this is the formality as a politician. One thing that remains the stance in Westminster is that ID cards are designed to eradicate terror on our shores, selling and promoting it under the heading of counteracting fear, has so many flaws embedded within it's ideology, that getting to the route of it would undermine democratic politics. Fear is everywhere, fear is the reason why people go to work because they don't want to lose what they've already have got. Fear is within our human psyche, so to take it away; it will only be replaced in other means. Fear mutates itself to whatever the environment. You can be more fearful of something that never actually happens.

Professor types jump on the band-wagon of hype and always use the 'fear' card to express a reason why research has to be maintained; for the good of mankind and of course himself. Lucrative deals then are endorsed for another 5 years securing jobs for yet more research. All built on fear. The ID cards other main benefactors are benign to what the public would relate to as being useful. The obvious cause is that it will be easier to manage via a superhighway database, which will be used for absolutely every stream of life details, which will breach the Data Protection Act 1998 - 2000; but by the scheduled ID card release date the terms would have been diluted somewhat for Parliamentarians to build huge roads into our liberty status, which is already a 'nanny state'. The huge database will also be a massive corporate feeding frenzy for blue-chip clients to know everything about everything, from where you shop to how often you top-up your mobile, to how often you change your thongs.

I heard a deluded 'Joe' public statement that if you've got nothing to hide, you shouldn't have any reason for complaints going on the database. That is fine if we all were equals, had basic amenities and lifestyles. The ID card would have benefits; but it isn't the case. We have all very different lives whereby fraud is a growing global trend, and loopholes are mandatory being written by lawyers which become law; only available for the prosperous and tax havened millionaire. Look at the Capital Gains Tax levy, the rich benefit by having it both ways, earlier this year MP's were found to have enriched their earning potential by abusing the CGT system at the tax-payers expense. They were caught with their pants down. What about the cash hungry hedge fund fat-cats who swap accounts globally, to avoid detection? - In a democratic land ID cards are purely a huge cash incentive for the government to bridge financial gaps on a failing 'brand UK'. - Forget all the biometric garbage that thwarts our thinking as if it would be useful for us to have our own iris details on a card. How useful is that? - It is completely useless to anyone. I would understand it, if you needed it to enter buildings via a high security iris recognition system, and anyway we carry our own eyes with us. It's like been sold another mobile at 120.00 GBP which isn't as good as your own which you've had all your life. Not even an Arab who is a Manchester City fan would buy that.

The bottom line is... would you trust the UK government with all your personalised data? - I seriously would fear it, 'oh that word again,' that my own data along with 60 million citizens would be copied onto an USB key and left on a train, to Sidcup; ready for any Syd to pick it up and configure as and when. At the moment the details of legal citizens are on more than 800 databases, which is a good thing when it comes to fraudulent activity. The programmer in Nigeria would only have small parts of your identity, in comparison to a hyper database which stores all of your identity; allowing no room to manoeuvre and you would expect no help from the authorities except a huge phone-bill for ringing up help-lines.

Alan Johnson MP, has been busy trying to package the ID card concept as a means to fight illegal immigrants. I can't see that either working as the reason why they're called illegal immigrants is due to that fact they've gone via other channels to get here in the first place. - The gnome has gone fishing without his fishing rod. Over the years, the ID card legislation has not changed, nor has the intention. - I was for the ID card system back in 1988, as in the EU, the EU nationals have an I D card; but the boat left long ago, with the internet and the digital age, it is open to even higher levels of fraud now. - The good news is that only 3,500 people have signed a petition stating it is a good idea; by expressing true facts against the release of the I D card the numbers are very likely to diminish by 2011. The UK passport has now got to be renewed every five years now so this is become inline with the 2011 plan of having to get an I D card as well. - Typically; it will be posted as a 'volunteered' option, which the authorities will strongly advise you to have with fees to pay if you decline the I D card option.

Our very own bobbies will relish the chance of stopping individuals for random chats and I D card inspection; again, if no card is presented, expect on the spot fines as they try in earnest to hit weekly targets set by governmental bodies. The list is endless when it comes to revenue opportunities for the treasury. So, the fact we are in a recession only adds fuel to the fire when it comes to inventive means of extracting cash from the UK public. The I D card is a red herring; it is the super database that is the Mother of all 'Big Brothers'; that will not protect the innocent, but will be another huge profitable black-market' business for hell-bent crooks who are always ahead of the game when it comes to the bureaucrats. The amount of red-tape grid-lock number punching systems won't make a 'dicken's difference' with any progress of catching criminals of this genre neon impossible; you will get the MI5 team working on 20.12 GBP post-office raids next. -Yet more obscene wastage across the board, of time and money all under the name of bureaucracy, which the I D cards will inevitably create.

The initial Home Office power push came from David Blunket; who gave the first contract to Entrust who are major players in I D card biometrics and fingerprinting. It makes me amused to view the blind Blunket before he realized he had a love-child, or maybe not, to experience the technology available, even though he couldn't see it first-hand; listening to him trying to explain the bio-metric side was like watching two hamsters mating in the snow; completely out of his depth. The fact that he had fast-tracked visa schemes before for fees made me wonder about bungs and all this before the government went transparent of course; tongue firmly lodged in cheek.

I've found the I D card also a pointless 200 Million 'black-hole', as yet more taxpayers money is driven into this hair bear bunch no-brainer. The fee is down to even be a lot more as it is configured to the 'Mother of Big Brother' database; which will install every minuscule of data of all legal beings in the UK. - Johnson even played with the actual design plastic a couple of months ago and revealed that leaving the union jack out of the end product was to not to offend people; especially the Irish. - I suppose this is what you get when a politician muddles about with plastic, they come up with their own 'red-tape' and touch on political correctness; which has in truth stopped children from singing 'Ba Ba Blacksheep' at play-group. Or deciding to make Christmas cards with the words 'Winter festival'. It's so outlandishly demented that a flag is not displayed in which states your own national identity, the idea however bad it is, is like watching Gordon Ramsey without the foul language; beyond pointless.

Out of a poll of 1,731 adults across the spectrum; six out of ten were unlikely to want an I D card, and that was without knowing what the implications of them being on 'The database' would actually mean. The tactics of Whitehall is extremely shady when it comes to all our liberties and human rights on such an old tired policy that is totally dormant in practical use for the UK public.

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Summary: UK ID Cards - The pointless guide