ID cards have nothing to do with fighting terrorism

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BBC1 "Breakfast with Frost" interview with Tony Blair
TX 30/9/2001

Sir David Frost: One of the things you hear people say a lot is obviously that if terrorists can fake passports they can fake ID cards, and the only people with proper ID cards will be the law-abiding citizens of this country who will have additional hassle ?

Tony Blair: Well that's precisely the type of argument we need to take into account, I mean would ID cards be effective in this way, however they may be effective in other ways in terms of fraud in terms of social security benefits and so on.

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Comments

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Well, at least we can stop terrorists from getting social security benefits then. That's got to be worth abandoning personal liberty for.