A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 3rd President of the United States
Unfortunately in the case of ID cards the rebellion was too little (BBC News).
So I turn to the words of Thomas Jeffereson’s predecessor.
Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right… and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.
John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd President of the United States
We can only hope that the unelected House of Lords are more questioning of the ID card bill than the majority of the Labour Party MPs in the House of Commons. The Government’s claims that their ID card proposal will solve many serious problems facing our society simply do not stand up under analysis.
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