They were great arguments against ID cards. However, rational arguments cut no ice in this discussion. Is there a  minister with friend(s) on the board of the company that will get the contract?

Any serious criminal or terrorist will get as much apparently legit ID as they need. Probably with our names on…. The average person will get more and more accepting of measures that do nothing to improve their security but add endless potential disasters to the pre-existing pool of potential disasters.

The Franklin quote was most fitting. Are we really so pathetic in the 21st century that we can throw away centuries of basic freedom without even seeing that we are doing it. Cameras everywhere – has the crime rate dropped to zero. “Anti-social behaviour” a new substitute for actually finding people guilty of breaking specific laws, how much of a rant has this become??