Surveillance Society - New Labour Big Brother - IT Opportunists Pushing Drive Towards 'Your Papers Please' Orwellian Society

"A blazing row broke out this week between the Conservative Party and the IT industry. Though it has a critically important bearing on the government policy at issue — Labour’s compulsory identity card scheme — this row is really about our unwritten constitution. It is a dispute in which David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, is absolutely right. The information technology industry knows it. This explains its fury. The Labour Party knows it, too. This explains its silence.... At issue is this: Mr Davis has publicly warned the IT industry that in making arrangements with the present Government for delivering a national ID card scheme, it should know that an incoming Tory government would reverse the policy and unwind the private sector contracts that have flowed from it. Opposition to the ID card scheme is, of course, official Conservative policy. The party has already said it would not proceed with it. Mr Davis was simply spelling out the consequences."
A cracking row over ID card lobbying for us all to savour
London Times, 10 February 2007

"The Government is to press ahead with preparations for nationwide congestion charging despite the millionth signature on a petition opposing the idea. An experiment in internet democracy, in which people were invited to place petitions on the No 10 website and vote for them by e-mail, has embarrassed ministers. The petition calling on the Government 'to scrap the vehicle tracking and road-pricing policy' was due to gain its millionth signature last night, less than three months after it was posted on the website. It received 92,000 signatures on Wednesday alone, thought to be a record for a single day."
A million motorists embarrass road price ministers
London Times, 10 February 2007

"Douglas Alexander, the Transport Secretary.... promised that there would be safeguards to protect motorists’ privacy."
A million motorists embarrass road price ministers
London Times, 10 February 2007

Whatever The Current Intentions And Assurances
Any System Which Introduces What For Many Will In Effect Be Compulsory Citizen Tracking Devices
Is Potentially Open To Gross Abuse By Less Well Intentioned Future Governments
And Corrupt 'Security Services' Acting Under The Cover Of 'National Security'

"Harold Wilson's belief that he was the victim of a secret service plot to discredit him is well documented.... The then BBC journalist Barrie Penrose has outlined some of the detail of the new evidence in an article in this week's Radio Times.... Wilson told the journalists they 'should investigate the forces that are threatening democratic countries like Britain'.....Wilson went on to tell them about his distrust of a group of MI5 officers, who he said were trying to smear him by planting stories in the press about him being an adulterer and a Communist spy..... Penrose concludes his Radio Times article: 'You may ask, at the end of the programme, how much of it can be believed. My view now, as it was then, is that Wilson was right in his fears.... in answer to the question 'how close did we come to a military government'. I can only say - closer than we'd ever be content to think.'"
Wilson 'plot': The secret tapes
BBC Online, 9 March 2006

Unlike In Wilson's Time The Vehicle Movements Of Every Adulterous MP
(I.E. A Significant Proportion Of The House Of Commons Given Its Known Track Record - Major, Prescott, Ashdown, etc)
Could Soon Be Automatically Trackable Opening Up New Opportunities For Smear And Blackmail
Including Blackmail Aimed At Influencing Public Policy Positions
And What About Judges And Other Public Servants?

"More than one million people have signed an online petition against plans to introduce road charging in the UK. The petition, which is the most popular on the Downing Street website, calls for the scrapping of 'planned vehicle tracking and road pricing policy'.... The petitioner has been a member of the Association of British Drivers (ABD) since 2001. The ABD has called for a referendum on the issue 'as soon as possible', but it has insisted Mr Roberts acted as an individual and not on behalf of the organisation."
Roads petition breaks a million
BBC Online, 10 February 2007

Forward This Information To Your Friends And Sign The Petition By 20 February
There Is Just A Short Time Left To Push The Numbers Up

"The idea of tracking every vehicle at all times is sinister and wrong."
Downing St E-Petition Submitted by Peter Roberts
Deadline to sign up by: 20 February 2007

[Received as forwarded message]

Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:07 PM

Subject: Your urgent action needed if you want Britain to be free of Government interference in your life

PROPOSED CAR TAX

Forgive the group email, but I urge you to read and act upon the following.

This really is very important.

There are only 15 days left to register your objection to the 'Pay as you go' road tax ‘ which closes to petitions on the 20th February 2007.

The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about it. Therefore at this time only 871,354 people have signed it so far and 1,750,000 signatures are required to stop them introducing it. Once you've given your details (you don't have to give your full address, just house number and postcode will do), they will send you an email with a link in it. Once you click on that link, you'll have signed the petition.

Democracy in action?

The government's proposal to introduce road pricing will mean you having to purchase a tracking device for your car and paying a monthly bill to use it. The tracking device will cost about Â£200 and in a recent study by the BBC, the lowest monthly bill was Â£28 for a rural florist and £194 for a delivery driver. A non working mother who used the car to take the kids to school paid £86 in one month.

On top of this massive increase in tax, you will be tracked. Somebody will know where you are at all times. They will also know how fast you have been going, so even if you accidentally creep over a speed limit in time you can probably expect a Notice of Intended Prosecution with your monthly bill.

If you care about our freedom and stopping the constant bashing of the car driver, please sign the petition on No 10's new website (link below) and pass this on to as many people as possible."

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

Say 'No' To Big Government Before It Takes Away More Freedoms Than Al Qaeda Ever Could

"The failure of Messrs Bush and Blair and the neo-cons to understand Arab grievances has been translated into a 'clash of civilisations' and a threat to Western values 'by people determined to destroy our way of life', as the Prime Minister put it. But there is no clash of civilisations unless we are determined to create one. We are not going to live under a universal caliphate. Osama bin Laden and his gangsters have not the faintest chance of destroying our way of life, unless we do so ourselves..... The misconceived 'war on terror' has made the world a much more dangerous place.... America and Britain should leave Iraq as soon as possible. There are no other options. .... it is the American occupation of Iraq, like the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, that has become the magnet for the international jihadis....."
Lord Norman Lamont, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1990-93
America and Britain should quit Iraq as soon as possible
Daily Telegraph, 10 November 2006