Re: ID card scheme £2,500 fine threat

R. A. Hettinga wrote:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/3659355.stm>

People who refuse to register for the government's planned ID card scheme could face a "civil financial penalty" of up to #2,500, it has emerged.

David Blunkett said not making registering a criminal issue would avoid "clever people" becoming martyrs.

So in Blunkett's vision of the UK future, only the rich will be able to be terrorists and paedophiles? Maybe they'll be softer on the poor who want to avoid the Great Database, some kind of NIT - "Non-Identity Tax" - perhaps. .g