Cut Off My Nose... ID Cards - Again

Original posting, January 2006 Here is a point that has just occurred to me. If I refuse, on principle, to pay for an ID card, then I could end up being sent to prison. This, by itself, is something I would consider doing. To push a middle finger up to Blair and his contemptuous government. But, Blair will be long gone (to Hell?) by the time my passport officially expires. Unless the 'rules' change. However, if I am in prison I am in no position to defend my rights, my family or anything associated with me. I would be a criminal, even if forced into it (and my DNA sample would be - legally - taken. Extracted under protest, perhaps). This, it would be argued, is my own choice. My own fault. I would become a member of an underclass. Or is that a sub-class: the dissident, the protester, the objector, the dissenter. I would be walking right into the Blair trap. It’s a true Catch 22. Between a rock and a hard place. I can only hope that Blair’s government fails. Little hope of that. Of all the cock-ups his Orwellian lot continue to make, they are still... ...IN POWER.