Deja vu as mainstream media announces the demise of the identity card scheme for the umpteenth time Steve Watson Infowars.net Wednesday, July 1, 2009 “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” - George Orwell. Headlines everywhere announced yesterday that the British government has been defeated on ID cards, and that a great victory has been won for civil liberties. The problem is that we have heard this several times before and it is simply not true. A batch of typical headlines follows: UK dumps plans for compulsory ID cards ID card plan climbdown is a victory for commonsense Last rites for ID cards read by Johnson The end of ID cards? However, if you read further than two paragraphs into the articles you discover the truth of the matter. “The announcement means that the only people for whom it will... [read full story]
