[id cards] fine fisk on the issue

Cleanthes, at The Select Society, has done a fine fisk on the ID card issue, as Timmy Worstall did on the Stern Report. I think you need to head across and view this report. In it, he takes each point one by one: Illegal Immigration, Crime, Terrorism, Identity Fraud and so on and dismantles it. For example: The case for ID cards is a case not about liberty but about the modern world. Wrong: it’s about both, but it is more about the former than the latter. ID cards have been used long before the advent of the new technologies that we are all busy accessing.