I hear that a great travesty is yet again to be foisted upon the people of Scotland and mainly because it's been done many times before and we took it. So we'll take it again and just like before it will then be rolled out to the rest of the UK. I can only hope that since we have a nationalist party in power in this country, that on this occasion they'll tell Westminster where to stick it.
I know I'm being elusive so far, but what I'm talking about here is ID Cards. Just as Poll Tax and the Smoking Ban were tried out in Scotland first, rumour abounds that the ID Card will come to us first. I know that other countries already have ID card schemes in operation, But in our case as with the US, the ID card will only be a small part in a much larger surrender of civil liberties and of course terrorism is the stick with which they'll beat us in to acceptance.
I read that the Scottish Labour Executive brought in legislation (either section 52 or section 57, can't be certain) over 2 years ago, which basically allows them to keep personal details on every Scots person, and I mean every detail; bank, health, employment, property, criminal... everything! Of course, any vigilant person will notic that President Bush has also just recently awarded himself the same powers, although he's been collecting info since 2001.
The question of course is what will they do with that info? Well, they really want to bring in ID cards, so that they can tie your personal details to a biological data bank. Once they have all that on you, they will be able to crush you instantaneously if required. It could be for something as trivial as attending an anti-government demonstration. The way the laws are being shaped right now, something like that could brand you as unpatriotic, anarchic and a terrorist. Of course, terrorist suspects can be held for a long time without being charged, and they could do that again and again. That's where we're heading, don't think they care about you, you're just a number, a statistic, and if you become a negative statistic then you will serve no purpose for them any longer!
