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BERNARD GUSSET -
AFTERTHOUGHTS (Updated... now and then)
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UK ID cards are a waste of time and
an excuse for more stealth tax
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| February 19th 2006 | |
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ONE A PENNY, TWO A PENNY, I.D. CARDS
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 Spot the phony! |
'Come and get, get your
lovely ID cards here, fresh today, just off the presses. Going cheap!!!'
That's just about how it will go. Back street forgers will have them up and running faster than it takes a government think tank to spend millions designing them. The ingenious Chinese will have them copied and on the black market before the rest of us have seen the design. It's all a racket,a way for Gordon Brown to claw yet more revenue from a nation already taxed to the hilt. A necessary burden on the population as Gordon sees it, to replenish the nations coffers straining under the weight of his ambitions for the third world, and money already spent beyond his means - something he believes the rest of us should be careful to avoid. Well we would....if we had more money in our pockets Gordon, but you keep taking it off us and spending it luv. |
| Do you really think this ID
card will cut down the risk of terrorism? Not a hope. The forgeries
will pop up like magic mushrooms and those who they are supposed to
catch will carry immaculate replicas complete with forged biometric
data and carry on as normal. Why? Because ID cards will not be as well
scrutinised as are passports, not without more expensive technology
which people will be reluctant to install - as happened in America when
they tried to introduce explosive detecting equipment in airports. Nobody
wanted to spend the money. Plus many people who are not used to having
to prove who they are will forget to take their cards with them so it's
either a case of "present your card at a police station within
three days" in which case terrorists will simply vanish, or on-the-spot
fines, yet another tax on the people. No doubt that one has already
been factored in for a later date. Then there will be more fines for not getting them on time, having the wrong sort or some other means of taxing the nation through the ID card. Just watch how many other ways of raising money they come up with connected to ID cards once they're on the statute books. No it's about tax, not security. It's a money making scheme to bail the Chancellor out of his current fiscal mess. If it was about security, it would be more complex. It would need to be. It's bunkum, hogwash, crap on a grand scale and wide open to corruption, fraud and forgery. It just won't work. Most of us know it but the government are hoping to frighten the population enough to bring it in because they need it and they need it in place before Brown's fiscal pack of cards crumbles. When they caught Ramzi Ahmed Yousef the supposed mastermind behind the World Trade Centre Bombing he had a dozen or so forged ID cards. What good were ID cards then. They caught him thanks to a tip off and a two mill' reward! |
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