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National identity cards and freedom.(Editorial)(Editorial)

Quadrant

| September 01, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IT IS ONLY A MATTER of time before we get some kind of national identity system. There will be much debate for and against, much of it irrelevant to any real issues. We can be sure that amongst the most vocal opponents will be the various Councils of Civil Liberties, which are for the most part dominated by people who arepartipris politically, are mostly lawyers, and show little interest in civil liberties when their own particular prejudices or political leanings are not involved. Most of the lawyers are more interested in the defence of criminals according to more and more convoluted obstacles presented to the courts to make convictions difficult, or in the advancement ...

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