baron von lotsov
22-07-2007, 05:25 PM
Strange times are these but the truth is winning out like it should have done a long time ago.
In the blue corner we have the establishment.
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The winning essay in full
Philip Johnston is this year’s winner of the annual Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award, established in 1986 in honour of the former Editor of The Times. Previous winners include VS Naipaul, Michael Gove, Matthew d’Ancona, Anne Applebaum and Anthony Daniels
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article2104562.ece
Now not that I would call myself such, but that lot could have come right out of my mouth. Actually a lot of it has come out of my keyboard over the last couple of years on the NO2ID site. It was quite revolutionary at the time when people were going on about the cost of ID cards. Now this is the stuff of awards. What is going on?
Has the red corner been uncovered? The Stalinists like John Reid and all the rest of them now in high up positions. Remember to pull it off they must keep the bullshit thick and fast but I really do think people are starting to wake up and even some in high places.
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The strongest argument against ID cards is that they will be unenforceable. It is the strongest argument because it is statistically irrefutable. Assume that all adults, or 80% of the population will be required to submit to them. Assume further that the vast majority eventually acquiesce, and that only 1% of us say "To Hell with you and your ID cards. I'll manage without a passport. Send me to prison if you want." (And I think that it will be much more than 1%, considering that both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, among many other organisations, have declared themselves against ID cards.) Even with 1% refuseniks, that is 480,000 people, or five times the current population of our prisons that are stuffed to capacity anyway. What are they going to do - build camps to put us all in?
This seems to me an argument that even strong supporters of ID cards simply have not addressed. It will be a far worse millstone around their necks than the Poll Tax if they do not change course.
Dr. Keith Anderson, Durham, England
In the blue corner we have the establishment.
quote
The winning essay in full
Philip Johnston is this year’s winner of the annual Charles Douglas-Home Memorial Trust Award, established in 1986 in honour of the former Editor of The Times. Previous winners include VS Naipaul, Michael Gove, Matthew d’Ancona, Anne Applebaum and Anthony Daniels
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/article2104562.ece
Now not that I would call myself such, but that lot could have come right out of my mouth. Actually a lot of it has come out of my keyboard over the last couple of years on the NO2ID site. It was quite revolutionary at the time when people were going on about the cost of ID cards. Now this is the stuff of awards. What is going on?
Has the red corner been uncovered? The Stalinists like John Reid and all the rest of them now in high up positions. Remember to pull it off they must keep the bullshit thick and fast but I really do think people are starting to wake up and even some in high places.
Check this comment
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The strongest argument against ID cards is that they will be unenforceable. It is the strongest argument because it is statistically irrefutable. Assume that all adults, or 80% of the population will be required to submit to them. Assume further that the vast majority eventually acquiesce, and that only 1% of us say "To Hell with you and your ID cards. I'll manage without a passport. Send me to prison if you want." (And I think that it will be much more than 1%, considering that both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, among many other organisations, have declared themselves against ID cards.) Even with 1% refuseniks, that is 480,000 people, or five times the current population of our prisons that are stuffed to capacity anyway. What are they going to do - build camps to put us all in?
This seems to me an argument that even strong supporters of ID cards simply have not addressed. It will be a far worse millstone around their necks than the Poll Tax if they do not change course.
Dr. Keith Anderson, Durham, England