[BNM] [_] Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones

[Tom Dussek (Hotmail)]

I absolutely agree with you! (Just in case my request for clarification 
gets mistaken for agreement with ID cards)

On the subject of setting up a new pressure group vs. joining the 
existing ones, I was wondering if it wouldn't be the case that more 
organisations would have a greater effect (notwithstanding the obvious 
parallels to the Peoples' Front of Judea, The Judean Peoples' Front, 
etc)? The existing groups are battling on the wide range of reasons as 
to why ID cards are a Bad Thing, e.g. social, moral etc., but a highly 
focussed group, which spoke only about the technological issues, would 
give greater volume the their specific subject. If you were in 
government (I do still naively think they hear what people say) or in 
the meeja, rather than go to the pressure group that opposes from all 
sides, the one that has a specific specialism could be especially useful 
and send a powerful message to people who don't understand these things. 
Cripes, you could even get on the Jeremy F*cking Vine show!

Tom Dussek



Nick Taylor wrote:
> I was referring to David Lepper - who I'm sure isn't an idiot... but 
> refusing to listen to what his own tech community (or the former head of 
> MI5) was telling him about ID cards etc was unforgivably idiotic.
> 
> I wrote to him on three occasions telling him (in a nutshell) "I don't 
> think this is a good idea". He wrote back saying "Oh, I do".
> 
> ...more often than not citing (or referring me to) some jumped up little 
> shite who's job it was to implement the bloody things. This whole thing 
> stinks to high heaven of beaurocratic empire building.
> 
> 
>> Given that there are 3 (possibly more?) MPs for Brighton, who do you all 
>> mean?
>>
>> Tom Dussek