http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/17/kant_blunkett_id_debate/
"Home Secretary David Blunkett said today that the German philosopher Immanuel Kant is to blame for scepticism about the government's plans for a compulsory national identity card. He was speaking at a meeting at the Institute of Public Policy Research, restating his arguments in favour of the scheme.
The British public's fear of ID cards is down to our 'history of legitimate doubts about the intentions of the state, reinforced by what we saw in terms of communism and fascism over the last century', Blunkett said. 'It was writers like Kant who first took the view that there is something suspicious about government activity, and that if a government is up to something, it must be about removing freedoms.'"
