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Anti-identity card group to hold meeting



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THE Scottish National Entitlement Card will be among the topics addressed at the next meeting of a group of campaigners fighting plans for identity cards.
The Edinburgh branch of NO2ID is holding its next meeting on November 27 in the Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Terrace from 7pm.

New plans mean passport applicants from 2008 will have to obtain an ID card.

The meeting will also involve a screen of the film "Taking Liberties".



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  • Last Updated: 17 November 2007 10:02 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Identity cards
 
1

alex paterson,

embra 17/11/2007 13:51:51

If you say no to the ID cards you must have something to hide,so maybe no sunny hols for you lot.

2

an interested party,

17/11/2007 14:25:25

ID cards will solve nothing and cost a fortune

3

adogcatcherwearsauniformto,

suffering from global warming? 17/11/2007 14:28:00

alex doesn't need an ID card, everyone knows he's an arse

4

James (1),

17/11/2007 15:34:50

#2 Why do we care about wasting money now? ID cards would stop some crime and fraudulent claims.
Why is it some people feel it's ok to have a passport but not an ID card.
We let any Tom, Dick or Harriette into this country to sponge off us. Let's start by finding out who is in this country. Make them have ID cards is the first step to finding out.
If you have something or nothing to hide I personally don't care.
Either way I want the people in authority to know who you are and ID cards would go SOME WAY to doing this.

5

alex paterson,

embra 17/11/2007 15:35:45

#3 Unlike yourself with loads to hide.

6

Jim Fraser (Cpt),

EH1 17/11/2007 16:06:37

#1 Alex....If you say no to the ID cards you must have something to hide,so maybe no sunny hols for you lot.

On the face of it, a reasonable position to take. The other side of the coin is that the government has indicated that the public will have no right to see what information about them is held on the proposed card, some of which could possible be in error. So, if the government of the day has nothing to hide, it would have nothing to fear. Or would it?

7

The Daleks,

17/11/2007 20:28:50

Only Big Brother and his idiot clown siblings want ID cards.

8

James (1),

17/11/2007 20:52:06

#8 That was a well constructed argument against ID cards! Now let go of the tree and type why you think it's a bad thing?

9

The Daleks,

17/11/2007 23:33:07

#9 James

"of the tree"

Meaning what, old chap?

Honestly not clear on what you're driving at.

But to push my own point.

If I thought for one nano-second it would stop illegal immigration, I'd mount a one-man campaign.

Unfortunately, it won't.

It's not about spongers, or immigrants James, it's about 1984.

10

is it me?,

Edinburgh 17/11/2007 23:33:29

#9 James 1
If an ID card is to be blindly accepted as proof of identity, (which is their raison d'aitre), they will promptly be forged by those who have the means to do so and may make things even easier for fraudsters, terrorists etc.
They can already copy driving licences, passportts, credit cards. You name it.

11

is it me?,

Edinburgh 17/11/2007 23:46:00

"passports"

12

James (1),

18/11/2007 19:39:36

#10 I apologise. Like your reasoning my writing is flawed. Please delete the word "of".
ID cards will NOT completely stop crime or illegal immigration. I wish that were true.
What is will do is CUT it. Any reductions is welcomed. To do nothing is not.

There are too many unwelcome people in this country. Your Orwell 1984 crap does not make a case against it.
Will you be quoting Enoch Powell anytime soon? I am sure I could find something from Nostradamus proving Orwell was mad.

I do not know where opponents of the ID card get this idea that the selling point, if it were introduce, is that "all" problems will be solved.
#11 is a prime example of this cack eyed belief.

He/She is under the impression they will be taken as the ONLY form of identity. Don't know where this belief came from.
ALL items of identification can be copied. What happens is newer technology comes along to replace it. Bank cards, then bank cards with chip and pin. They are not fool proof and will be replaced. So what if it costs money as long as we make it more and more difficult for criminals.
Why is it a passport is seen as acceptable but not an ID card?
The opponents of ID cards will no doubt have passports?


 

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