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When did you last see your father?
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FROM THE OFFICE OF GODFREY BLOOM MEP
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
14.30 hours 14th February 2007
When did you last see your father?
If you value your freedom, your privacy and your dignity, now is the time to reapply for your passport", said outspoken UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom. "The Government in the guise of the UK Passport and Identity Service is opening what it calls 'Interrogation Centres' across the country".
On March 26th the Government will be opening the first group of 'Investigation Centres'. Locally we have investigation centres opening in Leeds and Sheffield.
These centres will be used for what the government is calling "Authentication by Interview". The interview will demand official numbers, addresses for the last few years, your educational institutions.
That information will be used to look up everything that can be found out about you on all the government and private sector databases they can lay their hands on: school records, social services, police, credit checking, family details. All this to build a single dossier on you containing personal information. This procedure can be described as "Data-rape".
Over the next year every new applicant will be called in to their nearest interrogation centre. There you will be fingerprinted and photographed, and put through what they describe as an "intrusive interview" to check that you can give answers about private details of your life that agree with the official ones. If you can, you'll get your passport. If not... it is not clear, but trying to get a passport under 'false pretences' - if the computer says "no" - could be quite serious.
The government has already estimated that 1 in 4 people who apply under this new procedure will have to cancel their trip because they don't get their passport in time.
"It is true that the Labour Party is the only one that supports the ID cards," said Godfrey Bloom MEP, "but anybody who applies for a new passport between now and the end of this government will have their files kept forever. The answer is simple. Apply for a passport now, or risk the government holding all your information on file".
For further information contact Godfrey Bloom MEP on 01757 630778 / 07901 710518.
Notes for editors
1. The campaign against the interrogation centres is being run by No2ID http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/idCentres.php#where Local interrogation centres include Leeds (Planning application [PDF] Reference: 06/03094/FU Address: Ground Floor, 33 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2RY and Sheffield Reference: 06/02984/CHU Address: Ground Floor, Milton House, Charter Row, Sheffield S1 4HR
2.See also
http://www.no2id.net/news/pressRelease/release.phpname=interrogation_to_hit_gap_year
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