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Battle against Big Brother
A Prestwood woman is stepping up her campaign against the introduction of identity cards.
English and literacy tutor Katharine Stephenson, 47, of Clarendon Road, has formed the Prestwood and Great Missenden branch of NO2ID (No to Identity Cards), a pressure group.
The branch, which has a handful of members already, is non party political and its objective is to frustrate the Government's plans to launch ID cards.
Mrs Stephenson, a married woman who is the mother of two daughters, argues much can still be done to win an important political debate.
Presently, the Coroners' and Justice Bill is before the House of Commons, clause 152 of which enables the Government to share personal information with a plethora of private sources about the lives of individual citizens.
Mrs Stephenson wants to heighten awareness of this arguably draconian development and she is upbeat that much can be done to win the argument.
"The Conservatives have undertaken to scrap the card but have they indicated a willingness to scrap the database underpinning this?" she asked.
The Prestwood woman argues that ID cards are an embodiment of a Big Brother totalitarian state, at least potentially.
Mrs Stephenson spoke on Wednesday of this week at a public meeting, organised by the Lib Dems, at Chesham High School.
The Prestwood woman is adamant that she and her group are non party political and that the central issues governing her concern are libertarian concerns like freedom and justice.
"This is about freedom and liberty, " she stressed.
Mrs Stephenson said she was organising another public meeting at the White Hill Centre in Chesham on Wednesday, March 18, at 7.30pm.
This would be an entirely NO2ID occasion, she said, and the aim of the evening would be to recruit members for the campaign.
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