ID Cards

As per Reynolds post on the subject, I find myself incredulous that Jackie Smith alleges that people come up to her, “eagerly wanting to sign up for ID cards as soon as possible“.

My statement of intent with regard to ID cards is the same as that of Reynolds…

I refuse to carry any national ID card that is based around a national database and would rather go to prison than submit to this attack on my privacy and security. They will have to get my biometric data* by force and I will shred any ID card of this type that I am sent.

*Which is still hideously flawed and throws up too many false positives and negatives.
To be fully informed please visit No 2 ID.

ID Cards are a huge white elephant. I can’t think of a single terrorist-driven event where ID Cards would have been at all useful – well, except for (supposedly) easily identifying the victims of said event and/or the perpetrators after the fact.

Would ID Cards have stopped the london bombings on 7th July 2006? No.
Or the idiots who tried to blow up Glasgow Airport? No.
Or the idiots who tried that car-bomb in London? No.
Or the events of 9/11 ? No.
Or the IRA’s truck-bomb in Manchester? No.

So go on, tell me, just what fucking use are ID cards in their purported ‘anti-terrorism’ roles?