[Reader-list] UID CARD Doubts

[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Dear Taha and Bipin,
may be id card and national register is a way of gagging dissent, as i just
think about it more, it looks, it is possible to make a sub project in ids
project, for all the politicians who are in power, all the babus who are in
service and are essentially corrupt in nexus with the rulers, judges who
take couriered funds at their door steps, judges who are land grabbers will
have "unique"  id so that system bypasses them as it does now, so also the
"journalists" and "intellectals" who form the forums to propagate their
intellectal prostitution for the funds and paid news category,with grants
and funds for the NGOs,do you know why, it is evident that this forum has a
unique system where i have been getting tickets for my replies to all those
posts, and a unique number, may be for moderate, gag, censored post or
thoughts of dissent being kept out of the list...............?
Regards,
rajen.
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Taha Mehmood
<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Bipin,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> You seem to suggest that as of now we have to carry a variety of
> 'identity' documents. UID will provide us with one document. And since
> this document will be used for all contexts therefore, in your opinion
> we will not use our identity but it will strengthen us more.
>
> Now I am tempted to regard this view as confusing. I think the view is
> clearly confusing because of two reasons. First, any document which
> claims to 'strengthen' my identity presupposes a clear nature of my
> 'identity'. If we take identity as a whole then please tell me whether
> name, age, gender, date of birth, nationality, religion, caste,
> language and region are the only aspects of this thing. Are there no
> other aspects? If there are, then could a UID number claim to truly
> represent who I am?
>
> Second, clearly a UID number will be an add on to my fuzzy notion of
> 'identity'. Your claim is that it will 'strengthen' my identity. Does
> strength comes only by adding something to an existing thing? Can't we
> lose something and gain strength at the same time?
>
> Warm regards
>
> Taha
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Rajen.