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I think this is a good idea for all of our local police departments.

Only some classes of immigrant needs to carry an ID card. When challenged by “authority” a non-immigrant who looks like an immigrant is scuppered. The concept is insane and the idea that giving some immigrants ID cards would do anything positive is incomprehensible.

Like you say, how are people supposed to be able to visually determine if someone is an immigrant, and therefore be required to carry an ID card?

The only thing I can think of, is that this part of the stealth plan. After a while people will get fed up of being accused of being an immigrant they will apply for an ID card to prove they are not immigrants…

You say: “if I was an immigrant and challenged by “authority” I would simply say I wasn’t an immigrant.”

You can and they might believe you (I know nothing about you so this is a guess..). But if you were my colour and spoke like I do (not with any kind of “British” accent), you would probably go to jail 🙂 Just like in monopoly.

This is why when people tell me ‘oh this immigration thing is not against Indians any more but against the Polish’, I want to ask them how can they tell! Have they surveyed all those who fear immigrants are snatching their jobs? And how can THOSE people tell Polish people from themselves if it is only through visual inspection?

It is not intendedly racist – if I believed that about the UK, I would leave – but a fear of the different is universal and this government is shamelessly exploit it. Heck, I would even vote Lib Dems in if they promised to repeal the ID cards thing.

The crap that chick made up about the new ID allowing us to identify those in authoritative government positions is kind of ridiculous. “Mr. President, can I please see your ID? We’re required to perform a ‘clone check’ to make sure you’re the real President.” Aha! And then a national bulletin goes out celebrating the importance of the new ID because we wouldn’t have discovered that the President was being cloned without it. Or that Arnold Schwartzenegger really is a machine wearing a human suit. Geez! What would we do without the new ID?

Another movie that comes to mind is, “Gattaca”.

The U.S. goes round-and-round with the same BS laws and “efforts.”

It all reminds of the movie “V for Vendetta.”

Absolutely spot on.

There was also lots of talk on the news of how young people are going to be first up against the wall to benefit from the new scheme, as it will be well nigh impossible to get a student loan without one.