[Infowarrior] - UK gov to 'coerce' Brits into national id card

[Richard Forno]

(PDF document at the article site)

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/29/leaked-uk-govt-doc-r.html

Phil from the UK anti-ID-register group NO2ID sends in this nugget -- note
the call to action there. We've got a sensitive government document
revealing the British government's plan to trick us into a database state
and we need as many copies as possible, as quickly as possible!

If you mirror this document, please add a link to it in the comments for the
post.

    UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across
the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British
government intends to go about "coercing" its citizens onto a National
Identity Register. The 'ID card' is revealed as little more than a cover to
create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating
what NO2ID calls 'the database state'.

    NO2ID's national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom
lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the
annotated document on their site.

    "The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British
public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to
dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own
identities."

    "Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician's flourish to cover the
biggest identity fraud there has ever been."

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