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quote[0]="\"ID Cards are a solution looking for a problem\" - Peter Lilley."

quote[1]="\"ID Cards won't stop terrorism\" - David Blunkett."

quote[2]="\"Branding cattle is for the benefit of the farmer.\""

quote[3]="\"First they came for the communists\" - Pastor Martin Niemöller."

quote[4]="\"The Technology, while not 100% foolproof, is more foolproof than before\" - Martin Salter MP."

quote[5]="\"A national identity card has worrying costs and few, if any, benefits\" - Mark Littlewood."

quote[6]="\"I am sure the Government will get IT right one day. Well fairly sure\" - a computer journalist."

quote[7]="\"Random demands to see identity cards tend to make people resentful of the acts of the police and inclines them to obstruct the police instead of assisting them\" - Lord Goddard."

quote[8]="\"Draconian and dangerous and a disgrace to democracy\" - Simon Davies on ID Cards."

quote[9]="\"Employers cannot be expected to become 'ID enforcers'\" - the CBI."

quote[10]="\"The arguments in favour of ID cards have been discredited twice in a decade\" - Nick Cohen."

quote[11]="\"However many times Whitehall and sections of the media lost the debate [on ID Cards], they came back\" - Nick Cohen"

quote[12]="\"To describe the first phase of the Government's proposals as 'voluntary' stretches the English language to breaking point.\" - Home Affairs Committee"

quote[13]="\"They are illiberal, they will not stop a terrorist and the 3 billion costs would be better spent on more police and intelligence services.\" - Mark Oaten"

quote[14]="\"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence...\" - Universal Declaration of Human Rights"

quote[15]="\"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety\" - Benjamin Franklin"

quote[16]="\"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

quote[17]="\"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered\" - The Prisoner"

quote[18]="\"Simply, the objective is confusing.\" - British Computer Society"

quote[19]="\"One of the things I love about coming to Great Britain is I tend to breath a sigh of relief as a I smell the fragrance of liberty and I'm really worried about losing that\" - Sheikh Hamza Yusuf"

quote[20]="\"Blunkett’s ID card argument is specious and really not worth the plastic it may be printed on.\" - Simon Moores of Zentelligence (Research)"

quote[21]="\"Terrorists can attack freedom; only Parliament can destroy it.\" - Aaron McDaid"

quote[22]="\"This is beginning to represent a really significant sea change in the relationship between state and every individual in this country.\" - Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner"

quote[23]="\"We also note that public support for the principle of identity cards does not extend to the reality of having to pay for them\" - Home Affairs Committee"

quote[24]="\"Just as the reasons we went to war in Iraq seem to change day by day, so have the justifications for the introduction of Identity Cards\" - Charles Kennedy"

quote[25]="\"I still have my ID card from the last time we were forced to have them in the UK; I didn’t want it then, and I don’t want another one\" - NO2ID Supporter"

quote[26]="\"I think ID cards are sinister and I don't want my family tagged like cattle\" - DJ Danny Rampling"

quote[27]="\"I don't want an 'Ausweis bitte!' approach to Britain\" - David Davis"

quote[28]="\"Unclear aims, unproven technology and a general election coming up, it sounds like a good time to be identity card consultant\" - Nick Clayton, Journalist"

quote[29]="\"There is only one way to prevent such a database from being abused. That is: do not allow it to exist\" - Sam Leith, Journalist"

quote[30]="\"They are irrelevant to the war on terror\" - Scotland on Sunday, 19/12/2004"

quote[31]="\"The scheme represents an unjustifiable encroachment on liberty in return for at best minor benefits, and at a huge financial costs\" - Peter Lilley MP"

quote[32]="\"An unacceptable threat to civil liberties\" - Scottish Parliament"

quote[33]="\"The presumption behind the 'nothing to hide\" - nothing to fear' mantra is obnoxious\" - Church of Scotland"


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