Please - Help Stop ID Cards!
Please - Help Stop ID Cards!
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roadsweeper

Original Poster:

3,789 posts

303 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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I've read a lot on here about PHers being strongly opposed to ID cards, just like me.

So, it's time to put your money where your mouth is and get behind the campaign to stop this pointless and expensive infringments on our civil rights:

[url]"I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge."|http://www.no2id.net/[/url]

This gives you the opportunity to stop something that

[b]WILL[/b]
be expensive and inconvenient
unreliable
forgeable
draw startling parallels with the Nazi 'show me your papers' culture

[b]WILL NOT[/b]
stop terrorism
stop illegal immigration - it hasn't done in other countries where it has been implemented
be the end of the government imposing ever more stringent limitations on our right to privacy and freedom of movement.


Combine ID cards with CCTV (we in the UK are the most watched population in the world), computer facial recognition, satellite tracking of your vehicle and proposals to ban demonstrations around parliament that haven't been approved and tell me we're not living in a police state?....

BliarOut

72,863 posts

268 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Done!

B17NNS

18,506 posts

276 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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done (and forwarded to my address book)

wiggy001

7,351 posts

300 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Done

GingerNinja

3,989 posts

287 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Done.

imperialism2024

1,596 posts

285 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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I would... but where's the one for stopping ID cards in the US?

neil.b

6,546 posts

276 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Done, and forwarded.

andytk

1,558 posts

295 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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done

roadsweeper

Original Poster:

3,789 posts

303 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Great stuff guys.

Current situation:

4,194 people have signed up, 5806 more needed.

Keep it going and please forward an email asking your friends to do the same if possible:

www.pledgebank.com/refuse/email

jesusbuiltmycar

5,127 posts

283 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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done

theexcession

11,669 posts

279 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Bloody Hell, £10 x 10,000....

and might've know BlairOut would be the second poster...

Anyway back OT, Seriously what will £100,000 do?

I think it would be much better if you all visited:

www.pledgeTheExcession£10ToStopBeatingOffToBareNakedLadyPictures.com

Mrs Ex would be most appreciative.



Ex


TripleS

4,294 posts

271 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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Done.

Best wishes all,
Dave.

roadsweeper

Original Poster:

3,789 posts

303 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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theexcession said:
Anyway back OT, Seriously what will £100,000 do?

£100k along with a sympathetic legal team and support from groups like Liberty, etc. might just be enough to fight a test case.

More importantly, did you sign up?!

MrsMiggins

2,867 posts

264 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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4,216 people have signed up, 5784 more needed

Lord Elmo

3,609 posts

265 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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5677 now.
Signed.
Lets live in hope....

tinman0

18,231 posts

269 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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i'm in...

4,245 people have signed up, 5755 more needed

gh0st

4,693 posts

287 months

Tuesday 21st June 2005
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theexcession said:
Bloody Hell, £10 x 10,000....

and might've know BlairOut would be the second poster...

Anyway back OT, Seriously what will £100,000 do?

I think it would be much better if you all visited:

www.pledgeTheExcession£10ToStopBeatingOffToBareNakedLadyPictures.com

Mrs Ex would be most appreciative.



Ex




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TripleS said:
Done.

Best wishes all,
Dave.



roadsweeper

Original Poster:

3,789 posts

303 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2005
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Come on PHers, keep it coming!

Harry Flashman

21,786 posts

271 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2005
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Er - am I the only person who thinks that ID cards could be bloody useful for combatting benefit fraud etc?

It's not like you have to carry the things - only use them if you want to claim benefits/apply for jobs etc...

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

273 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2005
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Harry Flashman said:
Er - am I the only person who thinks that ID cards could be bloody useful for combatting benefit fraud etc?

It's not like you have to carry the things - only use them if you want to claim benefits/apply for jobs etc...

I don't claim benefit, why would I need one?(and many other points)