Britain or Burma?
In Burma, every citizen are finger printed, foot printed at gun point... forced to carry the National ID card everywhere, you can even fart without flashing your ID card... foregin nationals and ethnic minorities get different colour ID cards and they often get singled out at check points and when the army is looking for porter to carry ammunitions to the front line or looking for a group of human land mine sweepers. Police and government officials may enter any home at any time (even at mid night - really no joke) and demand everyone in the house to produce the ID card. Burma is a country run by brutal dictators, who made sure that ID card is very much part of population's dialy lives to ensure their tight grip on the power and to committ attrocities. In such country, this kind of facist ID card serves as a tool to opress its people further... what I dont understand is, Britain, the pillar of Democracy and freedom as so often boasted by your beloved ministers, want to go down the path of Burmese Generals? The only differences here is that the Generals there do it at gun point, here Labour does it with a smile and wink on TV.... like they say in Thailand "same same"!
oh and by the way, the Generals used the same argument about the ID card "It will stop the terrorists, stop illegal immigration and is full of benefit for the people" and they also used the same word "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" - 40 years after the introduction of ID cards, Burma is firmly under dictators boot!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
