"Giving evidence to the (House of Commons) Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Meg Hillier, Minister for ID cards, said we should see the cards as 'passports in-country'."Quite, internal passports were a major form of control in the USSR. The idea of us being subjected to a potentially similar method of control is, as I wrote before, chilling.
28 February 2008
Internal Passports Reminiscent Of The Soviet era
This is a chilling and strangely revealing phrase as reported here: Internal Passports Reminiscent Of The Cold War (from The Herald )
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