{"id":1717,"date":"2006-11-06T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/11\/id_cards_back_o\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T20:03:56","slug":"id_cards_back_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/id_cards_back_o\/","title":{"rendered":"ID Cards Back on the Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting terribly bored with this, but the PM will insist on continuing to push an utterly pointless cause. It&#8217;s ID Cards &#8211; or the really big database &#8211; that I&#8217;m talking about. He&#8217;s back on the offensive again with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2006\/11\/06\/do0601.xml\">a piece in the Telegraph<\/a> today. He seems not to have won over those readers though, since the commenters are largely hostile.<br \/>\nOver at the other end of the political spectrum, Henry Porter&#8217;s written <a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/henry_porter\/2006\/11\/post_581.html\">another piece<\/a> on The Guardian&#8217;s Comment Is Free site. Again, nearly all the commenters are hostile towards the ID Card scheme.<br \/>\nNow two newspaper sites and two sets of hostile commenters, does not, a good argument make in itself. Except that they <em>are<\/em> right. It&#8217;s such a pointlessly expensive system that will remove civil liberties and not help solve crimes, I can&#8217;t be bothered to go through the arguments again. Read the comments in the above two articles and then visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.no2id.net\/\">No2id.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m getting terribly bored with this, but the PM will insist on continuing to push an utterly pointless cause. It&#8217;s ID Cards &#8211; or the really big database &#8211; that I&#8217;m talking about. He&#8217;s back on the offensive again with a piece in the Telegraph today. He seems not to have won over those readers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}