Friday
10Nov2006
Identity fraud
Friday, November 10, 2006 at 12:58PM
I have no doubt that latest warnings from Mi5 are genuine, however I also have no doubt that the continuous discharge of security warnings are politically motivated.
John Reid likes to suggest that the British people are behind Identity Cards, but this is unsubstantiated, and I'd wager, utterly mistaken. The constant ramping up of fear among the population is a deliberate attempt to create a complaint atmosphere for more illiberal and draconian legislation. Blair and his string of hardline Home Secretaries are playing to a willing media. Britain's predominantly rightwing press are becoming more and more openly prejudiced when profiling Islam. Deliberately muddying cultural differences with the overall threat of extremism.
It's disappointing that the intelligence services are increasingly becoming a political tool, to be wielded by those in power to further invoke a climate of fear. The argument for ID cards is however, almost utterly without substance. Our already porous boarders would not be plugged by documentation. Only manpower can do that. And anyway, we already know who we suspect, most are British subjects, so what difference with a few inches of plastic make?
John Reid likes to suggest that the British people are behind Identity Cards, but this is unsubstantiated, and I'd wager, utterly mistaken. The constant ramping up of fear among the population is a deliberate attempt to create a complaint atmosphere for more illiberal and draconian legislation. Blair and his string of hardline Home Secretaries are playing to a willing media. Britain's predominantly rightwing press are becoming more and more openly prejudiced when profiling Islam. Deliberately muddying cultural differences with the overall threat of extremism.
It's disappointing that the intelligence services are increasingly becoming a political tool, to be wielded by those in power to further invoke a climate of fear. The argument for ID cards is however, almost utterly without substance. Our already porous boarders would not be plugged by documentation. Only manpower can do that. And anyway, we already know who we suspect, most are British subjects, so what difference with a few inches of plastic make?
Reader Comments (4)
I'm in total agreement with you here, Tyger.
Any thinking person, with any moral sense, can no longer trust the 'USK Blush Machine' (UK Blair+US Bush).
So, Blair has a huge problem of credibility - whatever he says nobody believes - even if he told the truth.
Fear and pain are the only 'control mechanisms' left for 'Blush'.
We are not listening to them anymore. Perhaps we will be made to listen...
They are intent in creating fear, that is for sure. There were more dead and wounded in Spain, but the politics of the Socialist government is not to increase the fear initially created by the Right wing government of Aznar. Spain little by little is forgetting and trusting the police in its fight against real dangers to the state.
it's good though the the public has some figures to work with, as revealed by the MI5 lady.
Yup. They won't be happy until they have a nation of informers peering through the net curtains and informing on each other.
Already tried and tested in my part of the world. Thing is, it failed the test at the time and has caused nothing but trouble since. When its time has passed, the then government will be able to create another climate of fear basd upon suspicions concerning who was and wasn't an informer under the previous 'regime'.
And so the cycle continues.