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State of Denial. Having come full circle in half a century, today British citizens stand on the brink of having their 'fundamental rights and freedoms' enshrined in the plasticated chip of a compulsory ID card. But what, asks Martin Twomey of the Hackney NO2ID Group, is this card for exactly and whose interests does it serve?  This man walks into a bar... a bar I happened to be in a few months ago. The conversation turned to identity cards and he told me about his elderly parents’ recollections of WWII identity cards. They spoke of the British public a few years after the war ended becoming fed up with growing intrusion and harassment, with every jobs-worth official from post office clerks to railway porters, bus inspectors to bobbies on the beat constantly demanding people’s identity cards. They told of people gathering in the streets to burn their cards in defiance of what had come to symbolise an overbearing and ever more intrusive state. http://www.metamute.org/en/State-of-Denial |
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