http://www.pledgebank.com/refuse2

The Government have not yet passed the Bill as it stands. Compulsion via the link with the passport or other designated documents is by no means guaranteed to make it into the law (if this Bill does become law).

On a practical point: if you want to buy yourself 10 years freedom to travel while you continue to oppose this piece of New Labour / Home Office cyber-Stalinism, then renew your passport NOW. As an added bonus, it’ll save you at least �50 – once the ID card scheme kicks in, the price of a passport (with compulsory ID card) will rise to �93+.

If you’re still not comfortable refusing to register, then for God’s sake support those who will – sign the resist pledge. And join / make a donation to NO2ID, if you haven’t already.

NO2ID have, from the outset, opposed ID cards and the National Identity Register. If the Government do win the Parliamentary battle (and with a 66 majority, it’s quite telling that they’re cutting this so fine), then there are all sorts of other things that need to be done – for instance, challenging the new law in the courts. The very fact that you _might_ have to ‘give up your passport’ because you refuse to be registered for an ID card is a principle that cuts to the very heart of English (and Scottish) law, Royal prerogative, and a whole host of ECHR/HRA principles.

Get active locally, and tell people about the Register – and the 50 categories of information stored on it, including the ‘audit trail’ of every time and place you use the card, building up a detailed picture of your public and private life – and the NIRN that, when used by other bodies (e.g. banks, insurance companies, NHS, private health) in *their* databases, will hand Government (and other identity thieves) the ‘key’ to your life.

We have research, and some polls already show that public opinion drops ANOTHER 20% when people hear about the database.

When 75% or more of the country is against this, the ‘Poll Tax’ scenario will be a reality. No matter how crafty the Gov’t have tried to be, their plan has one fatal flaw: it requires 43 million British citizens to report to a processing centre, and line up to be photographed, fingerprinted, iris scanned and submit to a detailed biographic interview. Then *pay* for the priviledge!

I submit that showing the Government NOW (before they’ve even passed the Bill) that there are tens, even hundreds, of thousands who will not comply indicates the millions more out there with whom they will be in conflict, should they proceed. As a form of protest – just considering the media coverage we’ve received on it so far, let alone what the 11,000+ can achieve later on – I consider this to be both practical and effective, and urge you (and Boris!) to join us.

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We need to consider ways of protesting that are practical and effective.

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Resist pledge (still taking signatures):
http://www.pledgebank.com/resist

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This bill is going through whether we like it or not. I’d like to believe that those of us who oppose it will continue to oppose it, and refuse to carry one. I’d like to believe that Boris and other prominent political figures will remain defiant, even unto facing the wrath of the state. But somehow I don’t quite believe it. Not when the next holiday in Tuscany’s in the offing, and the old passport needs renewing.

I think then (as the government has quite clearly and deviously calculated) we’ll all just think ‘sod it – everyone else has got one so why should I put my neck on the line?’

Here’s another reason we might not want to resist: because by then the banks and the Inland Revenue will have tied up the connections between identity and personal finance that none of us will be able NOT to carry an ID card: we’ll need them to pay for food.

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Put me in the house Boris, I’ll tell git face just how naive and stupid he is in words of one syllable!

(said jaq, softly and delicately)

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“If we’re NOT headed for a fascist dictatorship, why did so many people get arrested under the prevention of terrorism act whilst PEACEFULLY protesting near the Labour Party Conferlecture?”

This may be due to

(a) the report being exaggerated
(b) the police going beyond their brief on this occasion possibly because they do not know if they are coming or going
(c) ………………

So it is perfectly possible for this to happen and not be heading towards a fascist dictatorship. Condemning unwarranted authoritarian spats (and there are warranted ones) is the duty of every liberal. Confusing such tendencies with incipient fascism is to make a serious mistake. By clouding the issue you make it more difficult to clearly show what we are opposing at present. They used to call Mrs. Thatcher a fascist. I can’t say I ever liked the old dear but fascist she was not. Don’t forget that there are people affiliated to real fascist organisations like the SWP, Communist Party and various Islamacist organisations who would like to bring down the government ostensibly on civil liberties issues but in practice to establish their own unique dystopia, where it is redundant to call anything authoritarian.

I get the Times several times a week and I don’t get the impression that it follows the government line. It’s not packed with the Polly Toynbee types who loath being British, although there are a couple.

Yes, it is rather sickening to hear the BBC journalists appearing to support the government rather than doing their token bit of not being Islington dinner party goers, more so than the usual PC stuff they serve up. But since they seem to think that being ‘balanced’ means being sycophantic to the governement for five minutes before going back to the usual sycophancy to the PC brigade. No I haven’t suddenly supported the governement on ID cards. I just think that the desperate ‘ant-ism’ that seems to pass for critical thinking in some places is no way to solve the problems we face.

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