In message .com,
wrote

Law and order: the day it becomes a criminal offence to walk down the
street is the day the law will have lost all credibility and all
respect. This is what happens when ID cards are introduced. Their
mission creeps until it is a criminal offence to walk down the street
without the card. Our lowish crime rate has a lot to do with respect.
When that is lost, crime goes right up.

Respect for the Police within the group of my 'law abiding' friends has
fallen dramatically as more notice more and more Police tax collection
points on our major roads.
--
Alan