Passlaws on the way...
from Samizdata.net.
You should see an ID card like a passport in-country.
Meg Hillier MP, the minister responsible for the scheme, to the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, today.
I don't know which is worse - that Labour should see internal passports as a good idea, or that they are so oblivious to their history and implications.
How long before "Papers please" becomes a commonplace on our streets - probably without the please? How long before the people of this country begin to see the Police, not as citizens in uniform but as an occupying army?
The weird thing is, we hardly see them anymore.
Posted by: technomist | February 29, 2008 at 06:01 PM