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So as part of the consultation process on ID cards, I found this interesting section relating to notifications of changes to your personal details (page 87)2.6 Where a notification of a change is made, the Secretary of State may require the person concerned to do one or more of the following in order to ensure the accuracy of the Register:
- To attend at a specified place and time;
- To allow his fingerprints and other biometric information such as facial biometrics to be recorded;
- To allow himself to be photographed;
- Otherwise to provide such information as may be required by the Secretary of State. This may include for example requests to provide relevant documents such as immigration documents, birth or marriage certificates.
Until people start to feel there's something wrong with the Government demanding that you turn up at a proscribed time and place and submit yourself for photographing, fingerprinting and facial/iris scanning for no crime greater than getting married or changing address these buggers might actually get away with this crap.
They may be trying to soften the pill by subjecting 'non-compliant' individuals - you know, failing to tell the Government you've moved address, for example - to 'civil penalities', i.e., fines, but it is still, in effect, adding an completely pointless layer of jeopardy for most law abiding citizens. Unless of course you can pretend you're too witless to have understood it was mandatory, in which case they'll let you off. Or you can't afford the fine, in which case they'll reduce it. You see, they care about us.
I will not submit. F**k 'em.
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Fuck them indeed. If enough of us just say no. Don't comply, don't pay the fines, don't get a card etc then what can they do? Put us all in jail. Let's make it their poll tax. Our flawed representative democracy has failed us. Our archaic appointee legislature tried to help us. Now we just have to say no. It really shouldn't be that tough.
I gave up smoking because my cornershop started asking for ID.
Now I know I should take it as a compliment that I look young enough to be asked and I should be grateful on account of the health benefits, but they were taking the piss.
I'm not going to pay for the privilege not to be penalised when it just creates a new way to be harrassed.
Especially not after my encounters with the police have removed any trust I had in the institution or the people who are employed within it.
FUCK THEM VERY LOUDLY INDEED.
That's another thing the supporters never explain when I point out how impractical it is. What should be done with me if I'm "against this sort of thing"?
This law would be obscene & would encourage people to have a dismissive attitude towards the law in general & the rule of law, which is a certain road to disaster.
Surely even Camoron has got the sense to understand that.
I shall be fucking them alongside you :)
Especially since apparently there will be neither a civil nor a criminal penalty for not applying for the damn things in the first place, but once you're in the system there are ridiculous penalties for minor oversights. So anyone who isn't on benefits and can get by without a passport would be very ill-advised to get one.
"Homeless people wanting ID cards may be able to give their home address as a bench, bus stop or park where they are often found"
If you think I am joking go to the DT site.
I agree with James. Don't comply.
""Homeless people wanting ID cards may be able to give their home address as a bench, bus stop or park where they are often found"
I know you're not joking. I did wonder at the outset of the 'compulsory ID' scheme how they intended to deal with people of 'no fixed abode' and it appears this is their solution. What a bunch of tools.
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