UK Libertarian Party condemns ID card “soft sell”.

mkpdavies · 06-03-2008, 10:18 PM

The UK Libertarian Party - Press Releases

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The UK Libertarian Party today condemned the Labour government's proposals to introduce ID cards through a “soft sell”.
Party Leader, Patrick Vessey, said, “Both ID cards and the accompanying database fundamentally change the relationship between individuals and the state.
“The Libertarian Party is utterly opposed to this cataloguing of the people of Britain.
“In a truly free society, and provided that they harm nobody else by doing so, every person should be able to go where they like, and call themselves what they like, without having to beg permission of anyone else.
“Instead, the Labour government feels justified in tagging and labelling us as though we were mere livestock—bovine automata to be herded and tracked at our masters' convenience.”
The Libertarian Party was launched on 1st January 2008 and launched their first policy—a pledge to scrap personal income tax entirely—on 3rd March. It was the first policy to emerge from the new party's discussions, and forms part of a radical manifesto to be released, in full, later in the year.

Notes for editors

The Libertarian Party was founded on 21 November 2007 and officially launched on 1 January 2008. The party's website can be found here.
Further details of their radical Income Tax proposals can be found here.
Libertarianism is a political philosophy based on support for individual liberty.
Libertarianism is a broad church, but the UK Libertarian Party is broadly minarchist in outlook.

British-Conservatism · 07-03-2008, 10:27 PM

ID cards are very popular but can’t be trusted with this government.
With a Right Wing government however they may well prove useful.

mkpdavies · 07-03-2008, 10:55 PM

They aren't that popular anymore. When people undestand the billions in tax that has to be stolen for them to pay for them, that instantly lessons the appeal. Billions on an ongoing basis to maintain and upgrade the prison state.

Then you see incompetent useless government losing the data, or getting hacked by criminals, to abuse at will. That puts them off a bit more.

Then you get the jumped up little Hitlers who make people jump, because they can.

Then you get the inconvienience of losing them or them not working, which ****** off another chunk.

Then you start to realise that crime is still getting worse and wonder why it only ever seems to be the ordinary joe that gets hassled, or punished for some petty non crime.

Finaly some dictator abuse them to ethnically clense a whole nation. A threat you would think people would be well aware of by now, given the love of such schemes by dictators througout the time.

But it is true, some idiots still think they will stop the immigrants getting them, so throw all sense to the wind.

07-03-2008, 10:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
British-Conservatism Uber Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 2,286	ID cards are very popular but can’t be trusted with this government. With a Right Wing government however they may well prove useful. __________________ http://conservativedemocraticalliance.blogspot.com/

07-03-2008, 10:55 PM	#3 (permalink)
mkpdavies Uber Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Woking Posts: 30,837 Party: Libertarian Party	They aren't that popular anymore. When people undestand the billions in tax that has to be stolen for them to pay for them, that instantly lessons the appeal. Billions on an ongoing basis to maintain and upgrade the prison state. Then you see incompetent useless government losing the data, or getting hacked by criminals, to abuse at will. That puts them off a bit more. Then you get the jumped up little Hitlers who make people jump, because they can. Then you get the inconvienience of losing them or them not working, which ****** off another chunk. Then you start to realise that crime is still getting worse and wonder why it only ever seems to be the ordinary joe that gets hassled, or punished for some petty non crime. Finaly some dictator abuse them to ethnically clense a whole nation. A threat you would think people would be well aware of by now, given the love of such schemes by dictators througout the time. But it is true, some idiots still think they will stop the immigrants getting them, so throw all sense to the wind. __________________ http://brits4ronpaul.blogspot.com/ http://wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com/ http://lpuk.org My ignore list Labour, Blue Labour, Lib Dems

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