Labour finally gives up on ID cards

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You Would think that Americans would get this and stand up as well.

clipped from www.politics.co.uk Labour has decided to back down in its fight to introduce ID cards after years of campaigning for their introduction. The surprise move came this afternoon, during the second reading of the identity documents bill, which would repeal both ID cards and the national identity register. "We accept the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have mandate to abandon this measure," shadow home secretary Alan Johnson conceded. But ID cards will remain for foreign nationals coming to the UK, as will the National Biometric Identity Service (NBIS), which retains the biometric details of non-EU migrants living in the UK. "This isn't just about saving money," Ms May said. "It is un-British. We are a freedom loving people. It's a discomfort born of a very British revulsion of over-intrusive government. I pay tribute to all those who campaigned so hard against the introduction of ID cards." The government is moving quickly to end the ID scheme

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Aerial Video Footage Of Detroit: “Today, from the air, parts of Detroit look like a war zone”

clipped from motorcitytimes.com Former local TV reporter Chris Hansen, hosted a Dateline special on the devastation that the city of  Detroit has suffered. Via Gawker.tv: However, they really don’t mention that most of Detroit’s problems are a direct result of a continuous 50 year regimen of liberal Democrat policies. Even worse is the fact that Detroit’s current leadership is really not interested in changing direction. While you watch this video remember what Lyndon B. Johnson said about in his Great Society speech (at the University of Michigan) in 1964: Many of you will live to see the day, perhaps 50 years from now, when there will be 400 million Americans — four-fifths of them in urban areas. In the remainder of this century urban population will double, city land will double, and we will have to build homes, highways, and facilities equal to all those built since this country was first settled. So in the next 40 years we must re-build the entire urban United States.

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