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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, December 07, 2004
You are required to attend the summit of Mt Snowdon at 0300h tomorrow.
Natalie Solent (Essex)
(0)   Identity cards

In a detailed post about about the Identity Cards Bill Chris Lightfoot makes this point:

...Hilariously, they haven't even fixed s.12(4) in which

The things that an individual may be required to do under subsection (3) are--
(a) to attend at a specified place and time; [...]

-- this is the same as in the draft, and they haven't even bothered to add `reasonable' as many responses to the consultation suggested. Presumably if some bored Crapita employee does send out a notice of the form,

You are required to attend the summit of Mt. Snowdon at 0300h tomorrow morning so that we can take your fingerprints; failure to attend will be punished by a civil penalty of £1,000. Do not pass `go'.

the courts will eventually tell him to go fuck himself, but we have to wait to find out.