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finger prints taken to renew passport

Posted by LordHawHaw on Monday, 19 February 2007 14:42:10

Am I alone in being horrified to hear that Labour will now require everyone to have their finger prints taken to renew their passport? I realise we live in dangerous times but surely this is going too far. If particular countries require finger prints to have been taken before entry is granted then that should be part of their visa process. This is a backdoor attempt to introduce indentity cards. I hope you will oppose it?

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Posted by tony44 on Monday, 19 February 2007 15:06:36

this is only to creat more jobs for civil servants//// nothing more,nothing less---------we used to call it jobs for the boys........no doubt they will make an arse of it as usuall..hope it never happens.

Posted by DaveGould on Monday, 19 February 2007 15:59:38

Not just your fingerprints, your bank statements, your tax records, your benefits records, your DVLA records and the ANPR database which has been tracking your car for the last year or so. Chances are you'll be issued with an ID number at the same time so that your medical, ISP & phone records etc can be included.

Yes, it's all part of the totalitarian Identity Cards Act 2006, which designated documents (eg passport) for compulsory (and secret) registration on the ID mother-of-all-databases.

https://www.webcameron.org.uk/blogs/form.aspx?id=2627

It's part of ICAO and passport legislation here isn't subject to Parliamentary scrutiny!

BTW, I strongly recommend you renew your passport early. It'll have one of those chip things in it, but they tend to break easily. They'll be doing the same trick with driving licenses and CRB check certificates soon so to keep one step ahead of their Big Brother state, read the NO2ID mailing list:
http://www.no2id.net/

Posted by SteveSussex on Friday, 23 February 2007 19:59:52

This is more insidious Labour intrusion into the lives of the citizens of this country. Not only will the population be criminalized under this scheme but the cost to the individual, not only in terms of travelling excessive distance to an interrogation centre, but in terms of the humiliation of being fingerprinted and questioned as if guitloy of some crime. The only thing we are guilty of is being unfortunate to live under teh present government.

I hope the Tories scrap this at teh first opportunity or better still oppose it to the point of still birth.

Posted by stevejnb on Saturday, 24 February 2007 07:17:48

I am quite stunned that the British people in general are complacent about losing their freedom to this communist government. Many years ago when Maggie introduced the ever-so-unpopular Poll Tax, there were riots on the street. Such international embarassment that the government had to withdraw. That was about taking MONEY out of the pockets of the public, yet when it comes to taking away FREEDDOM, it's only a few harsh words on a web site (which by the way I enjoy reading and commenting on occasionally). So freedom is worth less than money in your pocket?

Bliar is looking to go out on a high. The best send off you can give him is to riot, a riot so large that internationally, he will be embarrased beyond the wildest dreams of anyone in opposition politics. Civil disobedience is the only answer, before the civil right to protest has been removed....and some would argue it already has.

New Labour is really Old Labour which is really the Communist Party....and guess what? They're getting what they always wanted.

Posted by DaveGould on Saturday, 24 February 2007 19:37:12

How can the public be complacent about something they don't know about?

The newspapers are only just starting to understand what's going on and TV is at least a year behind.

When the public does find out, they'll need leadership. That's where NO2ID comes in:
http://www.no2id.net/

Posted by webcameronator on Saturday, 24 February 2007 21:05:03

If my question at;
https://www.webcameron.org.uk/blogs/2648-David-When-you-Scrap-ID-Cards-will-you-also-scrap-the-underlying-National-Identity-Database
remains at the top spot on "Ask David" then David Cameron will tell us if interviews for passports - requiring things such as fingerprinting, addresses for the last 10 years, disclosure pseudonyms (including internet handles?) - will be continued under a Conservative Government.

I phrased my question to try and elicit if David Cameron's Conservatives' policy to scrap ID cards is a headline grabbing gesture or if there is substance to it.