“Sticking microchips in people has been considered for a long time....it's very, very scarey. I find it incredible that any sane person would actually willingly sign up to this scheme; do they really know the true implications? There would be a mass move by government to force people to use their ID for everything; from buying a bus ticket, to buying food, driving a car and just generally living.....in other words, if you aint got an ID card then you die.

If debit and credit plastics are replaced by a compulsory ID card then I will willingly starve to death for lack for food.
I believe the major problem lies not so much with the card but the sheer amount of PERSONAL information that the government wants to put on them. With huge databases underlying the whole thing, we would all be tracked like rats in the UK maze. Utter control, total obedience. He who controls data controls the people. Control the people, rule the world. My God, what are we coming to?”

“To understand both the present and the possible future you have to understand two things. The first is that this government is employing vastly more consultants than any government before. These are employees of the same firms that are likely to make vast fortunes from the roject. These people are unlikely to recommend that the project had no worth, they would be unlikely to stay in employment long if they did.
The second point is that any organisation tends to accrue power to itself. It is part of being an organisation. Commercial concerns tend to want to create monopoly situations, governments try to annihilate the opposition. Information is power. If you have tabs on what everyone is doing the temptation to use it to suppress opposition will be irresistible. There will always be the excuse that ¿I know best, therefore anyone who opposes me is bad ¿ I have a duty to stop them.¿ We have developed rules of law and democracy to be able to boot out those who get above themselves but modern computer systems, and other techniques of surveillance are a new dimension that we do not have the tools to deal with. I have no argument with the ID card as such, it is the database and is all encompassing scope that I object to. The whole point of this database is to share all this information amongst all those who can make a case to see it that is the danger. The temptation to use it for purposes the people, as opposed to the government, would not regard as benign will become irresistible.”

“I'm pleased to see that many others share my concerns about the "wonders" of the ID card and "National Identity Register". You can read all about it at no2id (google it).”

“Chris, I think you're ALMOST right. The Government knows that ID cards won't work, but if they can get the populace to accept the idea of a central database that holds all vital information about you,, they can then turn around and say that cards are too easily forged, and therefore, you must accept a microchip so that fraud isn't so easy.

We're seen by the Elite as Sheep that need to be herded from one pen to another. The easiest way to do that is through fear, in the same way as the sheep dog serves up big dishes of it for sheep. Make us scared of 'terrorists' to make us more compliant, then collectively move our psyche from one pen to another.

Law-abiding citizens DO have something to fear. Even peaceful protest is now classed as political dissent, and when these systems come into force, woe betide anyone who objects to the manufactured socialist state-of-quo.”

“I've got a feeling this dopey government knows ID cards will be a waste of money but to actually listen to opinion goes against the grain and would be seen as losing face. So here's an idea for them. Tell us all the idea is being shelved in view of the expense and the current economic situation. We can all forget about it then until some other dopey government official brings it up sometime in the future.”