Pledge “individual”
"I will strive to be more of an individual and not just do what other people do but only if 400 other people will strive to be more of an individual, too, and not just do what other people do."
— Charlie Ravioli
Deadline to sign up by: 10th August 2005
123 people signed up, 277 more were needed
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Current signatories (
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Charlie Ravioli, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- Paul Orrock
- Ben Best
- Thorn Davis
- Calum
- Helen
- Emily Glazebrook
- sian jones
- Brendan Padfield
- Jean-Paul Ameur
- Rylie
- John Dawson
- Nicky Foreman
- Graham Baas
- Edwina Wood
- David Law
- Krista
- Daniel
- Madhu
- Bodil
- Linda Compton
- James Harvard
- Kelsey
- Gard E Abrahamsen
- Cate
- Quinn Comendant
- Hugh Collins
- Sal
- Andrew Murray
- andrew tate
- Patsy
- Susan Small
- Alice Thornton
- Jez
- Adam Edwards
- Magdalena
- Vix Meddings Stokes
- crankypuss
- Avril Wooster
- Lizzie
- Paul Jacobs
- Christine McLaughlin
- Nikhil Nygaard
- Pablo
- Alice Lindley
- Helen Taylor
- Kirsty
- Kathryn
- afraz ahmadzadeh
- Shawna S
- Rori
- matt palmer
- Dallin Perrault
- catheine
- sanjay gautam
- Keith
- Laura
- Patricia Smith
- Shannon
- Emma
- Sonic Spider
- Carrie Lowery
- Rose Humphrey
- Dewan Haque
- Darren Harper
- REBECCA LIVESEY
- Alex Martindale
- Kila Rainbow-Rossi
- Eleanor Tarr
- Kerry McGregor
- Katy Martin
- Emma Knowles
- Anton Channing
- Dex
- Nick Turner
- Alexandra the Great
- stephen hoffman
- Mafew
- Allan Lewis
- donna beetham
- David Seefeld
- Cynthia Hoekstra
- Paul Hurteau
- Gina May
- Lesley Rodgers
- Gregg Beaman
- Sam W
- Dustin McGivern
- Alice
- Caesar
- Benjamin Briggs
- Phil Geraghty
- Mark Southgate
- Tim Ivorson
- Garry Cross
- David Hancock
- Paul Goodison
- Chris Surfleet
- Woop Woop The Famous Globe Trotting Bear
- Kaye
- Tara
- chris wheeler
- Flipsycab
- damian Rafferty
- Diane
- Oliver
- Lisa
- Jeremy D Pavleck
- Danika
- Matthew Wilkes
- Rodney Watkiss
- Neil
- Jerome Pearce
- Ashley Phillips
- Karen M
- Paul Carroll
- 8 people who did not want to give their names, 1 of whom has done the pledge
Comments on this pledge
What's wrong with being part of a group anyway? It's lonely on your own and a lot less fun.
Crowd: Yes! We are all different!
Individual (small voice): I'm not
Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979
Look. You've got it all wrong. You don't need to follow me. You don't need to follow anybody! You've got to think for yourselves. You're all individuals!
FOLLOWERS:
Yes, we're all individuals!
BRIAN:
You're all different!
FOLLOWERS:
Yes, we are all different!
DENNIS:
I'm not.
.(taken from the movie "Life of Brian")
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'Monty Python-life of Brian'
I pretty much think I do my own thing anyway. I tend to think of myself as a cooperative individualist, as opposed to the competetive individualism promoted by the currently dominant authoritarian faction...
...individuality is more fun when mutually supportive.
:)
"Be excellent to each other. And party on dudes!"
Hell, I'll follow the shoe.
Join me in the Way Of The Shoe
ID cards will make life more convenient, perhaps even safer. I do trust the British and EU governments that data safeguards, checks and balances will be adequate.
Armin: Sorry to take you to task on this, but I just couldn't let that pass without comment...largely because I think there's good evidence for believing - again, sorry for bluntness - that you are mistaken about every single point you made there.
a) "ID cards will make life more convenient". How will they? For anything that you need ID for today - right down to proving your age to buy alcohol, etc - appropriate ID is already readily available. Current ID is also, incidentally, invariably a great deal cheaper at present than the increasingly soaring figure quoted as payable by individual citizens for ID under the new scheme. OK, so in a few rare cases (depending on personal circumstances) some people might have to carry more than one piece of paper in their wallets at present - but this is pretty rare (for the types of things the ID card is expected to work for), and in any case...so what? It's not exactly a hardship.
b) "...perhaps even safer". You have *got* to be kidding! Independent (i.e. not Government and thus "on message") reviews of the scheme are pretty much in universal agreement that ID cards can't possibly make a difference to fighting terrorism or crime - terrorists will simply ignore the requirement entirely; criminals will simply (at best) turn to new types of crime, including more developed forms of identify theft.
The cards are *pointless*, for anything at all except perhaps (in theory) for making the lives of civil servants a little easier - and again, in reality, probably not even that. This is a case of the Government needing to *appear* as if it's responding to terrorism and modern crime...whilst in reality merely chasing shadows and leaving the public to foot the enormous, unnecessary bill.
c) "I do trust the British and EU governments that data safeguards, checks and balances will be adequate." Why do you? Their record is *appalling*! Quite apart from that, this is a complex public IT project...and the government has a nice track record of always screwing those up entirely (as well as drastically underestimating the costs involved). There is no reason whatsoever to think that this will be any different to their previous IT disasters - except of course that since the records will contain so much more personal information than ever before, the consequences of any problems or 'leaks' will be so much worse.
Please, *please* don't just believe the New Labour spin on this. There is a lot of good, well researched information readily available out there, and you really do owe it to yourself to consider everything before making your decision.
Many apologies for ranting at such length, particularly when this isn't really the place for it, but I just couldn't help myself...
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