I D cards a good thing .What do you think?

Question

During WW2 all had ID cards including children, I saw no problems unless you had something to hide. Interviews on TV with citizens of France Recently have said they consider it a National DutyTo carry Id cards. As criminals Fraudsters and terrorists have changed their appearance by minor surgery, make up, wigs, platform shoes, clothes? uniforms (even police) specs, dressing as women. they often use different names at different times. Operating in various parts of the country and abroad. ID cards would give us more prorection. What do you think.

Answer 1

I personally have no problem having one and being required by law to carry it.
As i have absolutely no reason not to.
I understand people feel uneasy about it, but the things genuinely do help combat crime and identitiy thefts.
The majority of people who dont like the idea are normal citizens and not law breakers, but they just dont like the feeling.
But then these people are all of the mindset that the country owes trhem something.
They should be looking to help their country.
Not bad people just generally selfish.

BUT and its a big but
YOU KNOW OUR GOVENRMENT ARE CRAP
and wil mess it up., they will try to make us pay for it.
and they will be useless and easy to copy and flimsy ets.

if they want to do it properly they should make it an all in one card making life easier for us the BRITISH CITIZEN
they should be a driving license, a national insurance, donor card.

Answer 2

That was a different world altogether. And what trouble people were in when their houses were bombed and they lost all their paper work! I think that with compulsory ID cards people would live in fear of being mugged or burgled and having their card stolen, or simply being careless and losing it. I know how neurotic I feel about having to carry a passport around when I need to do so. Moreover, one would apparently have to apply every year for this ID card and pay a lot of money for the privilege -- and all for what? Even the Labour government haven't been able to produce any convincing argument in favour. How would this have any effect whatsoever upon terrorism? It appears to be one more of their revenue raising and job creation schemes, as well as one further move towards uniformity, as we join a system adopted by other European countries. We can probably look forward to having Euro identity cards, just as we have Euro passports. This is all a far cry from the trading arrangement we signed up to 36 years ago.

Answer 3

During WW2 all had ID cards......... correct, but, imagine the war had gone a different way, pretty easy for Hitler to weed out the Jews, Mentally ill, Romanys etc; just have to lift their names and addresses off the main frame!
We all have some form of ID whether it be driving license, passport, doctors card etc etc ALL of which have been faked! Why would an ID card be any different!
If the police have REASON to stop me and Require me to identify myself I will, otherwise I will not.
Just to conclude; NO terrorist action has ever been stopped because a particular country has ID cards! [eg Spain] Even in London/New York ID cards would have made no difference to the outcomes, so I guess I'd need a lot more convincing.
A British television show got hold of prototypes of every single possibility of ID cards including fingerprint readers and Iris readers and were not only able to fake them but were able to track the holders and read and change the contents, from a distance using electronic methods...... better the devil you know!

Answer 4

It's not the identity card itself i object to I still have mine from when i was a child. it is the computerised information on it. No one likes to have every detail on display and the authorities often get such things wrong. it is not a question of i have nothing to hide the law can be changed so that you in your innocence find you have. remember most draconian laws are passed maybe for good reason and then are extended by governments bit by bit until you are free in name only. it will only be a matter of time before you will need a permit to go from one part of the country to another. the chip in the ID card would be able to show if you were carrying it and where you are. And joy of joys the real criminals and terrorists lioke dear old Osman Bin Laden and his crew have already found a way round the technology

Answer 5

I really don't have a problem carrying an ID card. Liberty etc claim that it is against human rights, but if you think about it we all carry ID with us all the time (driving licence, etc, etc).

I do however think that if it is not going to be compulsory to show it to access services or anything then it really is a waste of time as most of us already carry ID in one way or another.

My only major objection is the cost- 91 pounds was the last figure I heard. How can they justify this. My husband is from America and their ID cards cost $3 for a year. How can the UK government justify the amount they want to charge?

Answer 6

I have lived in countries who have national ID's. They only open the door to future misuse. One country that has these ID's require each person to get permission to go to the next town, let alone more distant places. If the person in charge doesn't like you for some reason you are allowed to go nowhere. There is a great deal of crime in that country. I see that the ID helps nothing at all.

Answer 7

As a law abiding, hard working, tax payer and a British citizen
I am dead against the idea of me having to have an ID card.
I have a national insurance number, a driving licence with a photo on it, a passport, I'm a home owner with a mortgage, I have a bank account, I have several vehicles registered to me at my address. I have an NHS medical card, I have a good credit rating. I have never been in trouble with the law. My identity is not in doubt.

I don't see why I should be forced to report to a government establishment on their instruction to be interrogated,finger printed, iris scanned, have my DNA taken and then have to pay upto £95.00, all for the privilege of living in my own country of birth, and risk being prosecuted and criminalised if i refuse, as well as losing my right to access services such as NHS health care,public library's, public swimming pool's, public leisure facilities etc.

Those who say if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear are living in cloud cuckoo land, you should fear a government that will force it's established citizens to have to prove their identity and then tell them that it's for their own good and will protect them from terrorism.

Answer 8

the id card in itself is OK; however it is the information they want to have on it.

your entire life will be stored on it. this just collates the info in 1 place for the crims to steal it.

they say only government bodies can scan it hmmm yeah right.

they say chip and pin technology is secure yet it is so easy to clone cards and steal info.

so i guess I'm saying is that if the technology is there to read the info on the card then the technology is there for the criminals to steal what is on the cards.

also terrorists for the most part are martyrs so how is an identity card goint to stop them???.

it is just another form of population controll; i wouldnt be surprised to find out that there is traking chips in them aswell

Answer 9

I have no problem with it. If you have nothing to hide, then what difference would it make carrying an ID card. The only problem I see is thay when the illegals sneak in from Mexico they will carry a fake ID card and a welfare application.

Answer 10

IN UK, a complete waste of time. We can't even get drivers to carry their driving licences. And what do you do if somebody doesn't have one with them? Lock them up while you check their identity? No thanks.
Give it about six months and there would be a flourishing illegal trade in bogus ID cards.