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ID Cards and the National Database – Compare and Contrast

You all should know by now where I stand on this, so I’ll offer links and quotes to two articles

Charles Clarke, Current Labour Home Secretary

Identity cards would not have stopped the London bombings which killed more than 50 people and injured many more, Charles Clarke has said. But on balance, the home secretary says, he believes ID cards would help rather than hinder the ability to deal with particular terrorist threats. He also suggested that in future civil liberties might have to be curtailed. Consideration would need to be given to checks on people boarding tube trains, ID cards and data exchange, he says.
Link: BBC News

Michael Portillo, Ex Conservative Home Secretary (Yes that Portillo)

We are in 1987. The prime minister has just won an election with a reduced majority and is celebrating by handbagging the European Union. As problems at home well up, she diverts attention by striding the world stage. Immediately after polling day, the government promised to listen to people more carefully, but it has lost no time in trundling out a piece of misconceived legislation that will bring it to the brink of catastrophe. The prime minister will not survive to the end of the parliament and neither will the new law. In 1987 Margaret Thatcher occupied Downing Street and her ill-fated bill enacted the poll tax. Today Tony Blair presses on with identity cards. I have seen this movie before and I know how it ends.
Link: The Sunday Times Comment

Link: No2ID

July 8, 2005; UK National Database and ID Card;

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