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Grumpy old man resents ID cards. Anyone else feel the same?
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receipt from Co-op.
shopping list.
reminder to send Ickle Brother a birthday card.
& that's it.
The function creep is beginning.
The sooner this Orwellian nanny state gets kicked out hte better
You have an NI number, been to hospital or the Doctors you have a NHS number..... Pay your council tax ( no possibly not ) you have a number... driving licence.... passport ... and thats with out all the credit cards and bank accounts... vote at the last election ? they know !
phone number, mobile number, use the internet......
don't know where you live / work, but you have possibly been filmed by over a hundred camera already today.......
It is also security and liberty by obsureity
*waves merrily at CCTV in corner of 'puter lab*
I don't drive.
Don't pay council tax (being a student).
Passport - unfortunately yes.
No mobile.
Internet via uni. I'm sure it's traceable, but Comp. serv. seem more bothered about people downloading porn than politics.
One bank account (have to for student loan).
Student loan means 'they' know all about my family too.
NHS number - yes.
Vote - yes.
BUT at the moment it would be very difficult for them to pick up, say, that at the last election I voted Green hence can be safely shuffled to the back of the NHS waiting list I'm on.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
So they know about you, and your folks.... so why bother moaning about an ID card... they already know all they need to !!!
(OH and it's not difficult for them to check how you voted if they desired I'm sure !)
She'd be the one refusing to wear a number!
:-)
Alas no garden so I can't recycle bath water.
Because ID cards would mean one easy search & everything I do would be traceable.
& I wouldn't object to wearing a race number, because I can always choose to run round the park on my own if I want to avoid handing over details.
I've got a British passport, a German residence permit, an ID card with my fingerprints on that gets me in to work and my driver's license, all of which carry my photo and all of which are registered in somebody's database somewhere.
(Err I was teasing about the working !)
Go on, my profile's got loads more on than yours.