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Article: Will ID cards make us safer?
- Article from:
- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- September 25, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright 2001 The Northern Echo. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IN the long and bitter battle against an enemy who would stop at
nothing, they were accepted with a resigned shrug of the shoulders.
Along with blackouts and ration books, identity cards were just
another restriction on freedom.
And the years since the end of the Second World War have seen a
number of attempts to re-introduce them, the perceived solution to
all manner of social problems - from rising crime to football
hooliganism. All have so far failed, squashed under the twin
objections of the difficulties of operating an ID card scheme and
the threat to civil liberty.
But now, as Britain prepares for a new war, this time against the
evil of terrorism, the momentum in favour of cards is ...