The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Now this is what we were hoping for

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Scrapping ID cards is a momentous step | Damian Green | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.
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This is a beginning, at long last. Wouldn't it be interesting if someone Wikileaked the names of the people who signed up voluntarily to Labour's ID card scheme? After all, it would be a handy list of some of the very worst people in Britain. What a valuable resource to have the self-selected names of the 12,000 fellow-citizens most likely to serve as state stooges, stool pigeons and snitches.

Free men and women could sleep easier in their beds if such data was public. And it might even help the people listed, by showing them how foolish they were to entrust any of their data to the state.

5 responses to “Now this is what we were hoping for”

  1. JohnRS Avatar
    JohnRS

    …but all the databases that were going to be integrated with the ID card system are still in place.
    Many of them have their own info feeds and arent going anywhere. Cross linking them (which is underway) gives the State nearly as much as the awful NID would have done, after all they still have all our passport info online so biometric info is there as well.
    This makes good headlines but doesn’t exactly change a lot.

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  2. Alex Avatar
    Alex

    http://twitter.com/#!/lukepollard

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  3. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    Agreed. It’s only a beginning. Let’s hope more follows fast.

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  4. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    I think I could have guessed that name!

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  5. Martin Keegan Avatar
    Martin Keegan

    Actually, the 12000 should be required to pay for the cost of the destruction of their personal information, pour descourager les autres

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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