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ID CARD UK Book Review

Author : Arthur Chappell
Review by : arthurchappell
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ID CARD UK by Arthur Chappell Print: £9.63 Download: £6.25 http://www.lulu.com/content/754662 This is my personal dark prophetic Orwellian science fiction look at what life could be like if today''s all too real government plans to make everyone in Britain carry biometric identity cards and have their details and DNA stored on a National data base are put into force. The stories show you how everyday life for ordinary people in Manchester, England (my own home city) will be totally disrupted. This is a satire of a terrifying totalitarian world we could soon be living in for real. There are more than twenty five stories showing how ID card checks will disrupt every journey, job interview, and visit to the pub. Even going rambling on the Moors will not save you from the inspectorate. Corruption and fraud will be rife. Far from protecting us from crime and terrorism, ID cards will increase our danger greatly. People from abroad will report on our nightmare and dread their own governments also introducing such policies. One story shows how easily ID cards could be forged, and stolen, and the dreadful and expensive cost of trying to report a stolen card to the authorities. Even those grieving for the dead will be affected. The mentality of the ID Card inspector (Uniformed and plain clothed) will be examined closely. So will the attitudes and fates of those who rebel by refusing to carry their cards all the time, as the expensive search activity intensifies. There are many campaigners struggling to stop the ID Card policy in its tracks, and this book is a tribute to their work, as well as a warning of what will happen to all of us if their campaign fails. You can help stop such stories from coming true by supporting the No2id campaign, which you can read about at http://www.no2id.net/ and http://manchester.no2id.net/

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