Nuala Reece
Caldari
Starlancers
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Posted - 2009.01.04 23:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Pan Crastus
I have been wondering lately whether they put something in your drinking water in the UK (tranquilizers?) with all the stuff people are enduring there without getting upset, protesting (yeah I know it's not allowed anymore when it would be effective), riots etc. ... Maybe it's just the estrogene from the Pill that made the Brits' balls shrivel away.
Like Robert Anton Wilson said (although not about the Brits but it seems we haven't been too far behind) we've been domesticated, like chickens, to the point of idiocy - chickens still know they should hide behind a bush if there's a threat but they've been bred so stupid they still carry on cluck-cluck-clucking loudly from their cunning hiding place. 
Originally by: Dantes Revenge
We already have an ID card system in place the same as any other country in the world. It's called a passport, why whould we need an expensive bit of plastic as well? The UK gov't has been trying to find more and more ways to make us part with our money and put it in their pockets, the ID card is just another one of those scams. If they really ant us to have one, issue one with no expense to us. If they are so adamant that it will help them combat terrorism and crime, this would be a small price for them to pay. The amount they say they would save on investigation would be worth it.
Jail or not, I refuse to carry one and I have absolutely nothing to hide as the 10 year vetting for my SIA license proved. I have already said I won't be updating that when it runs out, I resent paying ú300 to the government to allow me to work in a job I've been doing for years before the licenses came out. The recent scandal about so many illegals getting SIA licenses proved it doesn't work anyway.
It's just more documents and personal information about us for hte government departments to "lose".
Likewise - every time I've gone for a job in care, or moved positions in my current job, I've gone for an 'enhanced disclosure' where my records are checked for criminal convictions or even allegations that could suggest I'm not a suitable person to work with vulnerable people. This year, though, I'll also be asked to 'volunteer' to go on the ID register - this won't actually add any further protection for the people I work with than is already in place but if I refuse to go on the register I won't be able to apply for my enhanced disclosure and, as a result, would not be able to continue in my chosen profession of the last 15 years. The only difference thi will make is to coerce me into signing up to an expensive and unpopular scheme, gather more personal information from me than I was required to provide for a disclosure and then, at a time of Gordon Brown's choosing, sell that information on to private companies for marketting purposes (unless, of course, someone in the civil services looses it first). It's really a straw too much for me - I spend a good part of my working life encouraging vulnerable children to stand up against bullying and am now facing a situation where my own government is effectively attempting to bully me into their ID scheme. If the government really believe their much used maxim 'if people have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear' it makes me wonder why they feel the need to edge the ID register in with so much sly and underhanded behaviour. Not for me thanks.
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