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Government's active measures introduce new means of control such as identity cards and surveillance cameras, the passive measures such as weakening of double jeopardy and presumption of innocence.


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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
A Future Fair For All?
Trevor Mendham (The Chestnut Tree Cafe)
(0)   Identity cards

Worrying words from Blair's conference speech:

"And in a world of mass migration, with cheaper air travel, and all the problems of fraud, it makes sense to ask whether now in the early 21st century identity cards are no longer an affront to civil liberties but may be the way of protecting them."

I don't mind him asking the question, I just wish he'd listen to the answer.


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I'll be one of the one in fourteen....

Posted by: Mark Ellott on September 30, 2003 07:17 PM
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