Friday, February 04, 2005

No2ID newsletter

The latest NO2ID newsletter is now available.

Whos said:

"I believe that the requirement of an internal passport is more objectionable than an external passport, and that citizens ought to be allowed to move about freely without running the risk of being accosted by a policeman or anyone else, and asked to produce proof of identity"

It was government spokesman Aneurin Bevan MP, in 1947 when there was a debate in parliament about the ID cards that had been introduced on the outbreak of World War II.

Monday, 21 February 2005, is the 53rd anniversary of the abolition of those ID cards by the government of Winston Churchill.

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