purplecthulhu

Godwin's Law (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/legends/godwin/): "if you mention Hitler or Nazis in a post, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in".

Technically I didn't: I just cited a famous quote from Pastor Niemollar about the dangers of supposing that because your civil rights aren't at risk, you can safely ignore other people's civil rights being ignored.

I still think this is a perfectly appropriate quote: the example of the US, where no one seems to be too worried that the current US administration is acting illegally with the wrongful detention of Arab/Muslim immigrants, with Camp X-Ray, and with the equally monstrous but much less visible prison camps in Afghanistan and now in Iraq - because, after all, these atrocities are being committed by the US government only on people who aren't us: the only one of all those swept up by the US who has yet been granted a due process was also the only white American. None of the other detainees has been granted so much by the US - not even the Brits or the Australians.

Not quite relevant to ID cards, except that one reason David Blunkett claims he wants them is to "crack down" on asylum-seekers...