NATIONAL ID CARDS

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side: Aristotle

"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions." Sir Leslie Stephen - (1832-1904), literary essayist, author Source: The Suppression of Poisonous Opinions, 1883

Lisa only knew too well by now that many people have many agendas. She respected that fully however it was when their agendas sought to control and track her life from cradle to grave that her ire was raised.

If governments weren’t secretive and intrusive enough, she noted the globalist callings for national security cards in many countries.

Once again those behooven to the Big Brother mindset chanted their mantra “If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear”.

But wasn’t Orwell painting a definite and purposeful picture in his 1984 book?

Lisa heard often about innocent citizens denied flying because of faulty government data bases. She heard of elderly women being strip searched under the reasoning they were terrorist suspects because they fit the terrorist profile. But the most amazing doublespeak Lisa had ever heard came from a government when it said that it never published the names of terrorists on its ‘no fly’ list because that would let the terrorists know that ‘we’ are onto them.

She was stunned by the brazenness. Not only did this mean that terrorists were free to fly as they pleased, it also meant non terrorists were not allowed to fly. Once one sees the game, the signs are everywhere.

And those blacklisted against flying have no recourse or methods of redress against the government.

Bank accounts and transactions were monitored along with phone calls and emails.

Yet all this was still not enough for the government. Now they wanted ID cards to help fight the terrorists.

But very few people gave much thought to life under an ID card. The masses thought of the system as another clever way to foil the dastardly deeds of terrorists. That unseen, unproven manufactured threat. Whereas the real threat was from within.

And the masses even couldn’t consider just saying NO to such unwarranted and invasive nonsense.

Lisa imagined a world that demanded a card to travel, to shop, to use hospitals, to open bank accounts and to interact in any section of life. And she imagined all the existing forms of identification she already needed to possess.

And she imagined life if she lost or misplaced her card. No travel, no health care, no access to her money. She would become a non person in her own suburb.

Her entire future would be in the hands of bureaucrats in far away cities.

Her own credit history report was corrupted by clerical error a few years ago and she recalled the months and cost it took to fix the problem. She shuddered with hopelessness to think of trying to redress an error by a government. Governments often made mistakes and were notoriously slow to correct them. Without a card she would starve. She would be unable to shop for food.

Current cards, passports, credit cards and licenses already had a world wide black market of copying and producing false ID’s. This was just another but far more troublesome and far reaching curtailment to civil liberty and movement.

Lisa was reminded of the phrase “locks only keep honest people out”. The introduction of ID cards had no bearing on security issues. It never has and it never will.