Even ignoring the privacy, civil liberties, and "Big Brother" aspects of the ID Cards scheme (& more importantly, the National ID Register), I do not see how anyone could possibly be in favour of an ID card scheme such as this when it is being brought about by our current incompetent Government.
How many massive Government IT projects have had cost overruns? [and how many have actually delivered what was promised?]
How many times have we read stories regarding
yet another data cock-up (HMRC Benefit data, DVLA, etc.)?
Can anyone seriously trust this Goverment to actually successfully implement & run such a grandiose scheme as this? Really?
And when you do then couple that with all the civil liberties issues, and with the complete & utter lack of any actual justifiable need for ID Cards & the ID Database (how many times now has the Govt changed its tune over exactly what the purpose is?), I really fail to understand how anyone could possibly be in favour of this harebrained scheme.
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Originally Posted by jkat
"youve got nothing to fear" keep hearing this a lot recently or words to that effect lol  |
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Originally Posted by Martin Niemoller
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
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