{"id":519,"date":"2006-01-29T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T14:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/29\/guess_what_id_cards_arent_much_use"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:14:44","slug":"guess_what_id_cards_arent_much_use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/29\/guess_what_id_cards_arent_much_use","title":{"rendered":"Guess what? ID cards aren&#8217;t much use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: the Lib Dem peer in charge of reviewing anti-terror laws has changed his mind on ID cards: he says they would not be much use in preventing terrorist attacks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLiberal Democrat peer Lord Carlile said he had changed his mind on identity cards, which he had previously backed.<br \/>\n&quot;I can&#39;t think of many terrorist incidents, in fact I can think of very few&#8230; that ID cards would have brought to an earlier end,&quot; he told GMTV.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And further down:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLord Carlile also said he thought the Terror Bill, debated by the Lords this month, had been &quot;rushed&quot;.<br \/>\n&quot;I don&#39;t think there was a need to rush through the current terror legislation. I would have preferred it to go to a scrutiny committee.<br \/>\n<strong>&quot;I think it&#39;s led to certain issues being muddled by political debate rather than analysis.&quot;<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/4659228.stm\">Read it all.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: the Lib Dem peer in charge of reviewing anti-terror laws has changed his mind on ID cards: he says they would not be much use in preventing terrorist attacks: Liberal Democrat&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil_liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-8n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42605,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/42605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}