PRESS RELEASE: The 1952 Committee announces its campaign

BEGINS

The Star Chamber of the 1952 Committee is pleased to announce its first non-party aligned anti ID card initiative which is open to all opponents of the state’s ID card scheme regardless of party loyalty or party political apathy.

Introducing the “I keep my ID in my pants” campaign.

Many on the freedom loving side of the ID card debate cannot in good faith declare their intention to refuse to apply for an ID card as instructed to by the state and its agents if and when the ID card bill is passed as an act of Toad Hall in Westminster. The 1952 Committee recognise that there are a number of valid reasons for this stance by objectors to the scheme and, in its highly improbable remit as an all inclusive organisation, offers objectors this alternative.

To join this scheme all that’s required is that members declare the following intent:

When the occasion suits me, and when the opportunity arises, I will endeavour to carry my ID card in my pants. Whenever I am required to provide my ID card to an agent of the state, or to an agent of a private organisation cooperating with the state, I will without prejudice or delay reach into my pants, withdraw my card, and present it to the agent.

In recognition of the humanity of these anti freedom agents I will not deliberately make my card look skanky, deface my card with pants related artefacts or otherwise treat my card in any manner different from someone who carries their card on any other part of their body. I will simply carry it in my pants as is my right.

The state weaves an impressive lattice of legislation and it is quite possible that anti pant carrying law already exists. Whether it does or not is, as we all know, by-the-by as legislating against pant carrying requires a simple wave of the well used ban stick. Rest assured that we are determined to test any such discriminatory legislation to its fullest if and when the need arises.

ENDS

There will hopefully follow a number of campaign slogans and graphics which can be used to support this campaign.

To our readers in the USA. Over here in England pants means those undergarments worn under trousers (your pants) that act as a barrier between ones nether regions and said trousers (your pants).

Pants, in the context of this campaign, includes knickers, panties, boxers, jock straps and any other items that are considered to be in the spirit of the campaign.