ID Cards are bad, MKay?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 at 1327

Say No to ID Cards, please, before it’s too late.

Don’t bother coming back at me with “If you don’t do anything wrong you have nothing to hide” or “It’ll help reduce crime” etc. Look hard at yourself if you’re thinking that and you’ll swiftly realise it’s propagandist nonsense. The Nazi’s of WW2 gave people papers. They set fire to anyone who’s paper said “Jewish”, so don’t tell me that everyone having an ID will somehow make the place safer and more just. It will simply sacrifice more freedoms to the God of Government in the name of “Security”, allowing them to shut-down and discriminate against anyone they please. Super systems are great if you can trust the controlling entity with your life (Because lets face it, that’s what is at stake here) but the truth is, you can’t. You cannot, absolutely CAN NOT turn over control of your identity to a faceless and heartless organisation. That’s like asking a random guy in the street to hold a loaded gun to your head before hurling obscenities at him.

What, exactly, are people thinking when they decide to place such power in the hands of an electorate that wasn’t even democratically elected? Are they thinking at all? Gnah.

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2 Comment for “ID Cards are bad, MKay?”

mmKay Said this on June 1st, 2005 at 1729
If you don’t do anything wrong you have nothing to hide
Denyerec Said this on June 1st, 2005 at 1741
Nonsense. I’m sure you must be someone I know because I’ve heard that arguement before, though it’s a common one that I used to subscribe to until I woke up. Putting such a level of power into the hands of a 3rd party doesn’t mean you have no worries if you’re innocent, because your innocence is no longer your business. They can now make you guilty, should they so choose. The governments of the world are already moving the goalposts with respect to what is “Legal” and what is “Illegal”, though they usually dress up anything they want to illegalise as aiding, or actively being terrorism. You download music, you’re funding terrorism! You listen to heavy metal, you must be a dissident! You won’t submit and be controlled, you are a radical and an extremist!

*Sigh*