UK Passport fraud and opposition to ID cards reminds of me of John Lennon’s Imagine

This recent story on passport fraud reminded me of just how much I detest the intrusive and bureaucratic nonsense that is all governmental passport and ID card schemes.

Not only should passports never have been introduced in the UK in the middle of the nineteenth century but we must now oppose, at every turn, the government’s plans to introduce ID cards.

While Dr. Sean Gabb wrote this seminal paper against ID cards, it was Adam Chacksfield who argued: Open the Door! The Case for Abolishing All Immigration Controls

On re-reading Chacksfield’s paper I am reminded of the Libertarian vision at the heart of John Lennon’s song Imagine. I particularly like these words in verse two:

Imagine there’s no countries

It isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace…

 

You my say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will be as one