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Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. KOLA NEWSLETTER Black Knight Communication January 2007 Issue No. 4 In this issue: BIG BROTHER IS ñ Big Brother is WATCHING YOU! watching you! Page 1 ñ Editor’s comments Page 4 What compulsory ID cards ñ A tribute to our hard working means for us all Mothers and Fathers Page 5 ñ Abolition of Slavery Bicentenary 2007 Page 6 ñ KOLA’s Roll Call of Honour Page 7 ñ Dates to remember in Black History (January) Page 8 ñ Prayers and salutations Page 11 In Spring 2006, legislation for compulsory ID cards became law in Parliament. Is there ñ Walking the Tightrope of anything to worry about? Today, we already Respectability Page 11 possess many photo ID’s (e.g. Passports, ñ When ‘Negro’ never Driving Licences, security passes). Having a meant ‘Black’ Page 12 new ID card should not make any difference whatsoever. Unfortunately, the Government didn’t reveal ñ Bah Humbug Series! the full scope of its ID card scheme and ñ Part 1 – Religious Objections to what it means for the general public. The ID Christmas decorations Page 14 card is unlike any other card. It will be connected to a central database called the ñ Part 2 – Muslims against National Identity Register (NIR). All your Christmas? Page 14 personal details will be stored there. It will ñ Part 3 – Anti-Christmas politically contain your fingerprints, retina scan (taken correct propaganda from your eye), DNA and photograph. You will be issued with a unique number. exposed Page 15 ñ Movies to watch Page 17 ñ Health & Safety alert - Cleanliness is Godliness Page 18 ñ Your letters Page 19 ñ What does KOLA mean? Page 20 Retina scan It will hold your name, address and date of birth. It will possess details of your religious affiliation, residential status, financial records, health records, prison record (if you KOLA Newsletter – January 2007 Issue 4 1 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. have one), and many other private and personal facts about you. There will be unlimited space for other details of your life, which could be expanded by the Government with or without any future Acts of Parliament. Transport For London’s Oyster Card The same applies when getting a new telephone line, a mobile phone or an internet account. Oyster, DVLA, British Telecom and Nectar run their own detailed databases. They could access the NIR Old fashioned Database meaning private businesses can thumb/fingerprint store and access your unique number in their own systems, placing all your travel On the surface, the register appears information, telephone records, driving harmless. The new ID card will be used to activities and detailed shopping habits under check your identity against your entry in the your personal unique NIR reference number. NIR register at the time of presentation to prove who you are. Every newsagent, off- These databases, (which can fit into a hand- licence and supermarket selling alcohol held storage device), could be sold to third and/or cigarettes, every post office, parties either legally or illegally enabling pharmacy, supermarket and bank will have non-government organisations (even an NIR Card Terminal (similar to Chip & Pin organised criminals) to create their own readers). ID cards will be 'swiped' to confirm detailed dossiers of all your activities. The your identity. A record will be created at the Government can access them all. They will Database at the time and location where you have complete records of your movements. swipe your card. They will know your financial status, the medication you take, the kinds of food you eat - all this data is accessible via your unique number. Through the Database, the Government will have a record of every time you withdraw cash from your bank account. When you George Orwell’s1984 must prove you are over 18, your card must Winston Smith’s ID Card? be swiped, and a record sent to the Database. All babies, infants, children, and This is a major leap from administering a adolescents (regardless of age) will be simple ID card system showing your name issued with ID cards. Restaurants and off- and face. Most people are unaware of the licences will demand your card is swiped to potential dangers behind the proposed ID prove that sales of alcohol are made to card scheme. However, when details are customers over 18, that it was confirmed fully explained, attitudes among the general when they accessed the Database, thus public will quickly change. The Government indemnifying them from prosecution. Private will compel you to enter your personal businesses will get access to the Database. details into the NIR Database. You must comply and you must carry your card Your card must be swiped when applying for everywhere you go. If you (or your children) jobs. It must be swiped when using London require (or need to renew) a passport, you Underground’s Oyster Card, or obtaining a must have your DNA and fingerprints taken, supermarket loyalty card, or driving licence. KOLA Newsletter – January 2007 Issue 4 2 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. and your eyes (retina) scanned for the Database at designated centres. Maxie Hayles, Chair of the Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit, echoed An ID card will be issued to you, whether Professor John's view. "Black communities you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and/or eye scanned, you will not get a new passport. Even though you will be expected to pay for them, ID cards (like passports), will remain the property of HM Government. The Home Secretary will have power to revoke or suspend them at any time and for any reason. Should this occur, you cannot withdraw money from your bank Maxie Hayles account, nor buy food, nor pay for medicines. You cannot travel, nor pay your are already discriminated against," he said. bills, nor do anything else that requires the "There are other ways the Home Office presentation of an ID card. What will this could approach this. We already see Black mean for Black people or poor people people treated unfairly by police with stop- generally who are usually the subject of and-search and singled out by Immigration police suspicion? officials at airports. Introducing ID cards will only add to this and have a bad affect on race relations in this country." Further opposition was voiced by the Society of Black Lawyers and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). Tauhid Pasha, Legal Policy and Information Director at the JCWI, added: "The cards could be UK Passport used against anyone who looks different or anyone who looks like their immigration According to leading race campaigners, ID status is in doubt. Essentially that will be cards will become a form of "state racism" Black people and Ethnic Minorities.” and could cause more problems than they are intended to solve. Professor Gus John (a consultant on race and diversity and a race adviser to the Home Office), said "One of the reasons these cards could be introduced is to stop illegal immigration. Professor Michael Levi Professor Gus John Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology at the University of Wales, said that the "This will have a detrimental effect on Black Government might "run the risk of producing people who have been targetted in the past the same kind of backlash that individuals for all sorts of reasons. These cards are a faced under the police operation of stop- form of state racism. They are deeply and-search powers. In the immediate worrying and extremely dangerous. You situation, the people most likely to be can't be committed to combatting social stopped will be Asians, those who look exclusion and promoting social cohesion if Islamic and Black people." Furthermore, ID at the same time you are putting particular cards are likely to cause problems for sections of Black and minority communities babies, infants, children, adolescents, continually under the microscope." KOLA Newsletter – January 2007 Issue 4 3 Generated by Foxit PDF Creator © Foxit Software http://www.foxitsoftware.com For evaluation only. people with disabilities, the elderly and people diagnosed with mental ill health. For further information regarding compulsory What if they lost their ID cards? Will they be ID cards visit the following websites. fined? Will they have to pay for a www.no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php ; replacement? Will the Government go one www.homeoffice.gov.uk/passports-and- step further and impose their controversial immigration/id-cards/ biological microchip implants on these sections of the human population as a long term solution? Editor’s comments Well folks, here we are at the start of a new The arguments supporting ID cards can be year. Many thanks to the editorial team and easily disproved. They will not stop KOLA Newsletter staff for yet another terrorism; Spanish citizens already have excellent edition. We have set quite a high compulsory ID cards, as did the Madrid standard which keeps on getting better. We Bombers. They will not deter crime, nor will hope to have a full programme of events they 'eliminate benefit fraud,' which is tiny during 2007. compared to the cost of this scheme, estimated to cost £billions according to the Thank you for your continued support and London School of Economics. This scheme excellent feedback. KOLA’s external is designed to exert total surveillance and network is working hard at putting together a control over ordinary British Citizens, and PA interactive training CD package and line the pockets of those companies (and other packages that can help our members shareholders), contracted to create the at work.