{"id":585,"date":"2005-06-29T10:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/112003626144397495\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:22:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:22:46","slug":"112003626144397495","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/112003626144397495\/","title":{"rendered":"German ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl><b>In Actual Fact<\/b> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inactualfact.com\/?p=83\">the practical side of ID cards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What was surprising yesterday was that four people, in <i>Bundesgrenzschutz<\/i> uniform got on the train at Colmar in France and during the 10km journey to Saarbr\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdcken in Germany, went through the entire train demanding to see the ID\/Passports of everyone on board. After showing one of them my passport, I asked the man (who was, I should add, friendly, courteous and polite) why border passport controls were still taking place 15 years after Schengen. &#8216;Oh, it\u00ef\u00bf\u00bds not a border control,&#8217; he said, &#8216;just a random, spot check'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to Blair&#8217;s identity card Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Actual Fact on the practical side of ID cards: &#8220;What was surprising yesterday was that four people, in Bundesgrenzschutz uniform got on the train at Colmar in France and during the 10km journey to Saarbr\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdcken in Germany, went through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/06\/112003626144397495\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[183,180,43],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-germany","tag-civil-liberties","tag-germany","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}