They are at it again.
The British Public have said no thanks to ID cards multiple times.
Yet in the winter of 2023, as the British people are distracted by crippling fuel bills and rising food costs, the UK government are stealthily moving forwards to imposing the most draconian surveillance system seen to date, of which digital Identity cards are a key part alongside the upcoming central bank digital currency (CBDC)
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The 'powers-that-be' want digital identity cards introduced for the very reasons we don't want them.
We want privacy, personal independence and freedom - the cornerstones of what we expect within a liberal western democracy.
They want control.
These authorities want total surveillance in the same way a possessive partner might wish to track their other half's location, spending and messages.
Privacy and independence are basic human rights.
“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). Article 1
In the UK we value our basic rights where we are innocent until proven guilty.
This is the foundation of our society.
ID cards, digital surveillance and CBDC (digital government-tracked money) are systems designed to monitor, track and control us based on a presumption of mistrust.
The irony is that the very individuals within our society, who have left trails of destruction deserving the highest levels of mistrust, are the very same politicians and 'uncivil' servants attempting to bring in these new laws.
We all appreciate basic levels of privacy.
We keep our bank accounts private for a reason.
Few of us broadcast our locations unless it involves pride like sharing pictures from a good holiday or sharing our witnessing of a key event.
If we don't wish even our most loved ones to have constant access to our finances, location and health/education/work records, why would we let any licensed governmental department or 3rd party have access to search our records?
Of course, these infringements on our freedoms are sold as if for our benefit.
Vague notions of safety, fears of (often fabricated) terrorism, or disgust with paedophilia, are emotions that are manipulated to gain our capitulation to this creep towards totalitarianism.
Historically, in the UK there have been two national ID schemes.
In WW1 the national register was used to conscript young men to face the machine guns of the mud trenches of the western fronts.
In WW2, the ID scheme was sold to the public as a way to stop bigamy.
We are now in WW3 whose main weapons are propaganda and information whose target is not to win territory old school style, but to 'win' and gain the minds of the human race.
The reason behind this power grab is for one group of people enacting a power grab to control another.
“An equal has no dominion over an equal.” (Par in parem imperium non habet. – Black’s Law Dictionary 7th Edition page 1673)
It appears that the civil servants we elected to divvy up our taxes and spend them wisely for the good of the nation's people, have become control freaks with dangerous superiority complexes.
It also seems apparent they are working for the interests of corporations and unelected 'invisible' third parties shamefully alongside our own intelligence agencies developed to protect our interests.
If 'the government' and 'the people' were a married couple who turned up for counselling, the government would quickly have a restraining order placed on them and be packed off for rehabilitation whilst scholars would be updating the historical archive with the record-breaking boundary-smashing depravity of the mass gas-lighting of millions of innocents.
Sadly, the government are not going to enter the counselling they need, and the British people now need to stand together and stamp out these embers of tyranny before the fire of despotism spreads.
WHAT IS THE DIGITAL IDENTITY PROPOSAL?
The full 'proposal' can be read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-legislation-to-help-more-people-prove-their-identity-online/consultation-on-draft-legislation-to-support-identity-verification
It is unsurprisingly long-winded and over-complicated, to say the least.
In the next section, I am drawing attention to one small area under the DBS.
First, here are the governmental bodies that will have access.
Note the possible provision for the data to be accessed by "...An organisation which provides services to a specified public authority in connection with the specified objective..."
Is this a backdoor allowing third-party organisations and companies to access our data?
WHO WILL CURRENTLY SHARE THIS DATA
English and UK-wide bodies
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
The Lord Chancellor
Ministry of Defence
HM Revenue and Customs
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Department for Education
Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
HM Land Registry
An organisation which provides services to a specified public authority in connection with the specified objective
A county council in England
A district council in England
A London borough council
A combined authority established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
The Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a local authority
The Council of the Isles of Scilly
The Greater London Authority
Welsh bodies
The Welsh Ministers
The Welsh Revenue Authority
A county council in Wales
A county borough council in Wales
A community council in Wales
A person providing services in connection with a specified objective (within the meaning of section 35) to a specified person who (a) falls within this part of this Schedule; and (b) is a public authority.
Scottish bodies
The Scottish Ministers
A council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
A person providing services in connection with a specified objective (within the meaning of section 35) to a specified person who (a) falls within this Part of this Schedule; and (b) is a public authority.
New public authorities to be added to Schedule 4
The Cabinet Office
Department for Transport
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Disclosure and Barring Service
Disclosure and Barring Service
These guys are interesting
Please pay attention to the last words of condition 3.
condition 1: the purpose is the improvement or targeting of a public service provided to individuals or households, or the facilitation of the provision of a benefit (whether or not financial) to individuals or households;
condition 2: the purpose is the improvement of the well-being of individuals or households; and
condition 3: the purpose is the supporting of the delivery of a specified person’s functions, or the administration, monitoring or enforcement of a specified person’s functions
This incorporates what they call an individual's right to work or rent.
The "The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)" will be one of the new bodies accessing the sharing of data.
Employers and landlords will retain obligations that they must comply with under the Schemes, including to satisfy themselves that the IDSP has carried out an identity check on the employee/tenant, and to retain copies of the check.
The right to work and pay for a roof over our heads is fundamental and independent of all other factors. This is not a rating system of good tenants - we already have such measures in place - this is about cancelling individuals from society.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article23
Who else will be targeted?
They will tell you criminals or terrorists, but even these definitions are being blurred as we speak.
Vaccine-injury-awareness activists such as myself have been labelled anti-vaxxers and are now facing attempts to be labelled as terrorists.
"...Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers..." Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article 19
If this doesn't alarm you, best research the developments in existing social credit systems and see how it will affect everyone within the 'social-credit-society',
QUOTE: "....China's 'social credit' system ranks citizens and punishes them with throttled internet speeds and flight bans if the Communist Party deems them untrustworthy.
The exact methodology is a secret — but examples of infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games, and posting fake news online, specifically about terrorist attacks or airport security.
Other potential punishable offenses include spending too long playing video games, wasting money on frivolous purchases, and posting on social media.
China has already started punishing people by restricting their travel, including banning them from flights.
Authorities banned people from purchasing flights 17.5 million times by the end of 2018, according to the National Public Credit Information Centre, as the Guardian reported.
They can also clamp down on luxury options — many are barred from getting business-class train tickets, and some are kept out of the best hotels.
According to Rachel Botsman, an author who published part of her book on tech security on Wired in 2017, the government will throttle your internet speeds as a punishment, though the exact mechanics still haven't been made clear.
According to Foreign Policy, credit systems monitor whether people pay bills on time, much like financial credit trackers — but also ascribe a moral dimension.
You or your kids could also miss out on the best jobs and schools — seventeen people who refused to carry out military service in 2017 were barred from enrolling in higher education, applying for high school, or continuing their studies, Beijing News reported.
And in July of 2018, a Chinese university denied an incoming student his spot because the student's father had a bad social credit score for failing to repay a loan.
You could also get your dog taken away. The eastern Chinese city of Jinan started enforcing a social credit system for dog owners in 2017, whereby pet owners get points deducted if the dog is walked without a leash or causes public disturbances...."
Investigative Journalists have also been placed under what is basically house arrest by local corrupt politicians by having their access to digital money and travel curtailed -all without a trial.
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Here are three ways to voice your opinion regarding the UK gov proposals.
1 - OFFICIAL GOV FEEDBACK SURVEY
This survey has a set list of questions that can only be answered by multiple choice
Save Our Rights have made a step-by-step template that suggest certain answers to the survey.