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Baroness Williams plans to refuse to cooperate with the government’s obsessive ID cards legislation:
And you won’t be able to escape from it because the ID card which will be checked against your credit card will be a record of exactly where you’ve been, what you’ve done, who you’ve talked to.
My view quite simply is that the ID card will undermine individual liberty so seriously that one’s entitled to say one won’t co-operate with it.
I have not suggested I would use violence. I am suggesting I wouldn’t co-operate with it, nor will I.
Quite right, too.
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
Quite right, too. The state does not own me, my body or my identity and I’ll allow it no access to any of them beyond the minimum necessary to conduct business – and the less of that, the better.
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Absolutely, old chap.
I have often said that I won’t co-operate with either compulsary ID cards, or a compulsary DNA database, using non-violent means.
The issue will be ~ what does one do when the State uses violence in order to try force one to comply?
“The issue will be ~ what does one do when the State uses violence in order to try force one to comply?”
Amongst other things:
Ensure the media records and broadcasts the use of such violence. Ensure that your friends relations and neighbours are on hand to record the use of such violence.
Post said recordings to youtube and send links to samizdata, our chum longrider here, and any other high profile blogs that you can think of.
Post links to said recordings to comment is free whenever the topic arises.
This is the reason why freedom of the press and freedom of speech are so absolutely vital.
Good to see people in public positions stepping up to the plate. More please.