I was reading with continued disbelief today that the government are still pressing in with the ID card scheme amongst their totally unfounded claims on the benefits: That they will help prevent terrorism and keep illegal immigration under control as well as preventing fraud.
Why is it that our system of government doesn't allow somebody to tell them to stop lying and have a ruling that means they can no longer make misleading statements without independently having them verified. For instance, despite a lot of academic work, many creationists are considered charlatans and misleaders and they have done a million times more homework than the government. How can they be allowed to make statements based on opinion or biased reports, have we not learnt anything? We will sleep walk into ID cards despite the lies unless we make more effort to tell our MPs what we think of their hair-brained schemes.
Terrorism? Well I believe all the people who have committed serious terrorist offences in the UK either have permission to be in the UK or are known to police already. ID cards no use there. Illegal Immigration? Well even without ID cards it is easy to find these people with enough staff and willing, Oh yeah and the ability to deport when caught, none of which is actually true. ID cards make no difference there. Fraud? Well seeing as you will be able to get them made at thousands of high-street places, how on earth do you prevent somebody from doing a little sideline in dodgy ID cards? There is absolutely no way to prevent it. Legal deterrents as we all know do not stop everyone from committing crime, it might persuade a few people if they knew the sentence would actually be passed.
Criminal!!
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