Bait and switch and digital ID

 

Neil Oliver points out that in Britain, the powers that be are doing a bait-and-switch with their proposed Digital ID expansion.  I haven't been able to find a transcript of his talk (which can normally be found at GBNews), but his message is so important that I've embedded the video, even without the transcript.  I highly recommend that you take eleven minutes out of your day to watch it.

Here's a key passage, speaking about the "bait" of the prospect of electric vehicles replacing all our fossil-fuel-powered vehicles.

"Most of us won't have any sort of car at all.  Unless the demand for cars - any sort of cars - drops drastically, there's no way to hit the emissions targets our governments have loudly committed us to.  That's where the "15-minute cities" come in.  We'll be expected to walk or cycle.  Do you see the scam yet?  They advertise a world of electric cars, but what we'll end up buying is lives lived on foot, within 15 minutes of our homes."

That's about the size of it, in America as much as in Britain.  Back in pre-Industrial-Revolution times, most people were born, grew up, lived, worked, grew old and died within twenty miles of their birthplace - often less than that.  That's because travel was too difficult and too costly;  animal-powered, without roads worthy of the name, and very time-consuming.  Only the wealthy, or those making a living by moving goods and services from one place to another, could afford such travel.  In so many words, the "Green Revolution" is angling to push us all back into precisely that sort of lifestyle, where we simply can't travel much - whether we want to or not.

(What that means for folks who live out in the country, or in small towns, is left to the imagination.  In reality, the success of the 15-minute city project means that people like that will be forced to move to cities where they don't want to live, to "enjoy" a lifestyle that is anathema to them.  So much for personal freedom!)

Digital ID is yet another scam, a control freak's wet dream.  At present it's said to be "opt-in only":  if we don't want it, we won't be forced into it.  However, we all know that's nothing more than a sop to public opinion.  If the only way to access your state pension, or buy a ticket on a bus or train or aircraft, or purchase what you need, is to use your digital ID, then you have no option at all.  Worse, if we all carry ID that can be electronically scanned at any place, at any time, we will have no privacy left whatsoever.

If a crime is committed, anyone within a given distance of it will be traced, and can be interrogated at need.  We won't be able to buy or sell anything without it, because transactions will become cashless, built around the use of a digital ID to identify the purchaser (and, in the case of a private transaction, the seller).  Just think of the drools of eagerness of those wanting to ban private firearms sales.  They could identify both buyer and seller with trivial ease, just by looking back through our movements, keyed to our digital ID, and our financial transactions, keyed in the same way.  The same goes for anything and everything else.

Our privacy is already in rags and tatters.  Compulsory, enforced digital ID will destroy it completely.

Peter