Comments on: What’s so bad about ID cards? http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards Fri, 11 Nov 2011 01:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Fool http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards#comment-1263 Fool Mon, 11 May 2009 16:21:45 +0000 http://www.learnedfool.com/?p=399#comment-1263 So far, we've had responses from native Britons regarding ID cards and neither like them. However, for you, the ID cards are optional, not mandatory. For non-EU nationals, the ID cards are mandatory. How do you feel about that? Are they worth having? Will they prevent illegal immigration, etc.? So far, we’ve had responses from native Britons regarding ID cards and neither like them. However, for you, the ID cards are optional, not mandatory. For non-EU nationals, the ID cards are mandatory. How do you feel about that? Are they worth having? Will they prevent illegal immigration, etc.?

]]> By: Chris Tolmie http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards#comment-1258 Chris Tolmie Mon, 11 May 2009 12:53:50 +0000 http://www.learnedfool.com/?p=399#comment-1258 I do not want to share my Id with the government. I do not like being spied on by unseen security teams running CCTV cameras. I do not want to have to prove who I am. Please do not force me to have or to carry an Id card. I live in a free country (thanks to my dad and many others in the 1940's). Chris I do not want to share my Id with the government. I do not like being spied on by unseen security teams running CCTV cameras. I do not want to have to prove who I am. Please do not force me to have or to carry an Id card. I live in a free country (thanks to my dad and many others in the 1940′s).

Chris

]]> By: Fool http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards#comment-856 Fool Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:32:02 +0000 http://www.learnedfool.com/?p=399#comment-856 Oh, yes. I remember fuming about Abu Qatada. But it's not just terrorists, it's also the other thugs and criminals - you know, the ones we paid to leave jail early. Oh, yes. I remember fuming about Abu Qatada. But it’s not just terrorists, it’s also the other thugs and criminals – you know, the ones we paid to leave jail early.

]]> By: an ex-apprentice http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards#comment-854 an ex-apprentice Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:49:33 +0000 http://www.learnedfool.com/?p=399#comment-854 European Human Rights Act. The thing that stops us deporting people like the Afghan hijackers etc. European Human Rights Act. The thing that stops us deporting people like the Afghan hijackers etc.

]]> By: Fool http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards#comment-850 Fool Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:00:15 +0000 http://www.learnedfool.com/?p=399#comment-850 I guess that's why it's hard for me to understand this ID issue. It shouldn't be mandatory for everyone, but it should be available for those who do not hold a driver's license as a means to prove identity. Immigration is a big problem that needs to be addressed pronto - I totally agree with that. But you've lost me on the reference to EHRA - what's that? I guess that’s why it’s hard for me to understand this ID issue. It shouldn’t be mandatory for everyone, but it should be available for those who do not hold a driver’s license as a means to prove identity. Immigration is a big problem that needs to be addressed pronto – I totally agree with that. But you’ve lost me on the reference to EHRA – what’s that?

]]> By: an ex-apprentice http://www.learnedfool.com/whats-so-bad-about-id-cards#comment-822 an ex-apprentice Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:24:57 +0000 http://www.learnedfool.com/?p=399#comment-822 The main purpose of the ID card is to act as proof of entitlement to the benefits of the welfare state and thereby to prevent the 1 million plus people who have arrived here illegally over the past 12 years from gaining access to that to which they have no right. The argument against is very simple. Why should I have to carry an ID card I do not want in order to address by the back door a problem which the government not only refuses to address at the front door, but have actually made much worse by such foolishness as the EHRA? The main purpose of the ID card is to act as proof of entitlement to the benefits of the welfare state and thereby to prevent the 1 million plus people who have arrived here illegally over the past 12 years from gaining access to that to which they have no right.

The argument against is very simple. Why should I have to carry an ID card I do not want in order to address by the back door a problem which the government not only refuses to address at the front door, but have actually made much worse by such foolishness as the EHRA?

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