It is easily forgotten that the only time Britain had an identity card system was between 1939 and 1952. The compulsory issue of identity cards was part of the terms of the National Registration Act 1939, a piece of wartime emergency legislation. The Act set up a National Register, containing details of all citizens. National identity cards were then issued to all civilians on it. The ID Cards were issued under the Act for 3 reasons, by the time Winston Churchill abolished the cards in 1952 the the civil service had found 137 additional uses for them.   more »

Now that mainstream media bias is an established fact and recognized as such by the mainstream reading and viewing public, the revelation of Vice President Dick Cheney's total unilateral control over all levels and branches of American government has not only raised eyebrows and concerns of dictatorship, but for those politically astute, begs the question as to why theWashington Post would be the journalistic vehicle to publish the four-part June 24 through June 27 series exposing this reality.   more »