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Subject: Re: ID cards, my personal view Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:51:06 +0000

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:58:55 +1300, "Jonny"
wrote:

>
>"Andy" wrote in message
>news:c4a43d0c-ed47-4fce-8a10-6574b97931dd@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com...
>>I am not against the idea of ID cards per-se , but I am seriously
>> worried about the cross-linking of them with government (and worse,
>> third party) databases.
>
>Id cards wouldn't be necessary if you had a half pie efficient government.
>It's pretty outrageous that the british government has so little clue about
>who is in the country. You are an Island nation like us (New Zealand), so
>simply make use of this advantage to secure your borders and ID cards won't
>be necessary.

Yes, but you could count all the people in NZ in an afternoon.

MM