Tuesday
(0)NO2ID is launching its activities publicly:
Saturday, 18 September 11:00am - 2:00pm
The Corner Store
Covent Garden
33 Wellington Street,
London, WC2E 7BN, Map
There will be a couple of speakers before lunch, including a Labour 'rebel', Neil Gerrard MP followed by campaigning around central London, i.e. handing out leaflets, setting up stalls on the street in a number of locations until mid-afternoon.
Please join them to Stop ID Cards and the Database State!
The NO2ID Coalition, who are trying to make sure Blunkett fails in his attempts to introduce mandatory ID cards, argue that:
- An ID scheme won't stop terrorists
- An ID scheme will not control illegal immigration
- An ID scheme won't enable you to have anything you do not already have
- An ID scheme will cost billions in taxpayers money and achieve nothing
- An ID scheme will mean your most intimate details will be controlled by the government forever
- An ID scheme will cost everyone £75 every year
Cross-posted from White Rose.
...An ID scheme will cost billions in taxpayers money and achieve nothing
Well, nothing except (a) allowing the government to control all your most intimate details, and (b) collect £75 from everyone every year.
Sounds like a winner to me!
Posted by Walt at September 14, 2004 02:14 PM
Any campaign that can bring together the Libertarian Alliance, the Lib Dems and the Scottish Socialist Party must have something going for it !
Posted by Julius at September 14, 2004 06:29 PM
Used on me last night, and presented for the delectation of Samizdata readers, Bad Pro-ID Argument of the Week:
"If you are against ID-cards you must be a criminal. People like Liberty are dangerous to the British way of life with their suport for criminals when our forces are in action. We should trust the British Establishment--look at its record."This may not be a perfect summary. I was pretty much dumbstruck. But it was repeated sufficiently many times that my initial hilarity at what I thought must be a wind-up was replaced by panic-attack. People with responsible positions in civil society (as he had) think like this?
Posted by Guy Herbert at September 15, 2004 08:39 AM
