SAY NO TO THE UK 'ID CARDS BILL'

An excellent activist organisation based in the UK (and for the UK) which opposes the National Database Register and more specifically, its related 'ID Cards Bill' is the NO2ID organisation, their website being http://www.no2id.net.

Further information is available on the site, with links to all the relevant material that one may need if deciding to rally for support, contact specific MP's, arrange petitions, or just to learn more about what is planned for our future, as UK citizens.

Speaking for myself, I personally have had little involvement with petitions and lobby groups etc in the past, but I have found the NO2ID organisation to be well worth the time and and their website to be an invaluable resource for grass roots material.

 URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED 

For all of those who have been drawn to this article from the front page, asking for 'urgent assistance', here is what you can do.  It is quick and easy... in fact I'll let Phil Booth (National Co-ordinator of NO2ID) do all the talking.  Here is the text from a circular e-mail sent out by Mr. Booth that spells it out: -

19th May 2005

Dear friends,

I'm writing to you now as the Government prepares to steamroller its
"Identity Cards" Bill through Parliament.  Each one of you can do
something immediately that will help in the fight against this
unnecessary, oppressive and invasive legislation.

Even the polls which the Government portray as indicating 'overwhelming
support' for ID cards clearly indicate that there are 3 to 4 million
people in Britain who are strongly opposed to ID cards.  What I would
like you to do now is quite simple.  Get as many of these people (and
others) as you can to sign NO2ID's petition before the Second Reading of
the Bill in early June.

When we tried this last year, we were hundreds strong and thousands
signed in two weeks - now we are ten thousands strong our impact should
be that much greater.

Two ways to go about this are:

1) Promote the petition on your website, blog, lists or (best of all) by
e-mail to people you know - please do not spam! A personal request to
just five friends or colleagues will take just a few minutes.  The
online petition is at http://www.no2id-petition.net/.

2) A downloadable 'PDF copy' of our petition is available at
http://www.no2id.net/downloads/forms/NO2ID%20Petition.pdf.  Print it out
and collect as many names and addresses as you can - some supporters
have already sent in dozens gathered from their work, college, church or
pub in just a few hours.  The address to send completed sheets to is on
the bottom of the page.  Don't worry if you can't fill a sheet, send us
what you have got.

Thank you for helping us. Please act now.

Phil Booth
National Coordinator, NO2ID
www.no2id.net

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PLEASE SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION IF YOU ARE OPPOSED TO 'BIG BROTHER'.

http://www.no2id-petition.net/

SEE ALSO OUR 'GLOBAL ID CARD' SECTION/ARCHIVE BY CLICKING THE RED TEXT