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CONGRESS DEBATES NATIONAL DRIVERS LICENSE with ID TRACKING CHIP... and CONTROL through a VIRTUAL NATIONAL ID




Update: October 21, 2004 - The 911 Commission recommends a National ID Card with armed checkpoints around America and a National Driver's License. And Congress seems to be going along with the recommended legislation.

October 12 2004 DOJgov.net Newswire ©

UPDATE: The House of Representatives has passed HR10 with the national ID database provisions in tact and mandating a standardized National Drivers License throughout the United States. The national identification system has begun. This falls in line with recommendations of the 911 Commission that called for a National Identification Card and armed checkpoints throughout America.

In accition, provisions of what was previously known as the Patriot Act II are being passed under the guise of implementing the 911 Commission's findings. Many of the legislative measures, particularly S. 2845 introduced in the Senate by Senators Collins (ME) and Senators Lieberman (CT) are bi-partisan efforts in response to the 911 Commission. They include:

Establishment of a national ID card, disguised as national standardization of drivers licensing;

Establishment of a national electronic database for birth and death certificates, with permanent identifying information assigned to each individual, such as a national ID number;

Biometric identifiers - including fingerprints, face recognition software photos, iris or retinal scans, and other private physical identification - for travel documents which would be used for security in domestic air travel as well as overseas travel;

Expanded secret eavesdropping and search powers to be used against individuals suspected of terrorist activity. At the same time, "terrorist activity" is so broadly defined as to include virtually anybody critical of government. There will be no federal court oversight.

Enhanced "material support" provisions allowing guilt by association.

May 1, 2002 DOJgov.net Newswire ©

Legislation to standardize state-issued driver's licenses across the United States and use them as virtual national IDs is looming over the horizon. The Card will be mandated to hold a programmable ID chip with biometric patterns as yet undefined. The bill would also mandate that state databases be linked.

The Driver's License Modernization Act of 2002, sponsored by Reps. Jim Moran, D-Va., and Tom Davis, R-Va., directs that the chip be capable of accepting software for other applications, including those of private companies. By doing this, it paves the way for becoming "the only card you'll ever need," as it could replace ATM cards, credit cards, employment ID, library cards and virtually all other plastic ID media.

The stated object of the legislation is to prevent identity fraud and enhance national security by making driver's licenses a better way to establish identity. "The intent of this legislation is to correct flaws in the driver's license standard that states currently have," Moran's spokesman, Dan Drummond, stated.

"Right now there are inconsistent requirements between the states for initial identity verification. There's also insufficient verification of identity documents that people present when they go to get a license."

The bill would earmark an initial $315 million in taxpayer funds to help pay for the transition to the new licenses and to set up links between state computer systems. It also opens the way towards linking to hundreds of national information databases, exposing all personal, financial, medical and other information to one source of law enforcement and corporate retrieval.

In theory the cards could also be structured in such a way that revocation of driving privileges would be done electronically without damaging other uses. On the other hand, having a driver's license reviewed through a scan by law enforcement could reveal an enormous amount of personal information. And confiscation of a "universal" card in the future world could render the former holder invisible to features needed for simple survival.

The Patriot Act, passed late last year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, appears to open a way for federal, state and local databases to be linked. The bill authorized $150 million for the "expansion of the Regional Information Sharing System" to "facilitate federal-state-local law enforcement response related to terrorist acts."

Rep. Harman, a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence and an acknowledged expert on counter-terrorism, said the identification needs to be connected to national databases to check on the background of driver's permit applicants.

"I think this issue must be looked at. We don't automatically have to call it a national ID card, that's a radioactive term, but we can certainly think about smart cards for essential functions, but we need the database to support that."

Asked by a member of the audience if she felt there was political support for this technology, Harman said, "I think most people are really there. Keep in mind that if we have a second wave of attacks. The folks who are raising objections will probably lose totally.


Initial use of the enhanced driver's license for private-sector services would be voluntary, but given the growth in power of new bureaucracies, it may not be long before a piece of plastic in good standing is the control mechanism for compliance or starvation.

 

Nazi facism.Thats what it is.

 

Looks like I'm never getting my driver's license.

 

I shared this article with a woman who survived the Nazi invasion of Holland. Her response was " that's just like when the Nazi's came, everyone had to have their papers. My mother was always afraid that she might have lost the papers and that she would be taken away from us". The lady was age 4 when the Nazi's invaded yet she remembers quite clearly what it was like. This puts a very strong pit in my stomach when someone like that makes the statement.

 

I hope this starts to wake up the sheep.Theres a lot of us telling people who will listen that this is only a begining to the end,which will be all personal freedoms gone forever.Or until we have a revolution.

And the bleat goes on..........

 

Indeed, the writing on the wall is clearly seen by many here in Europe who actually remember the lessons of history. Sadly, the telltale signs of the rise of fascism in the US go unheeded by our largely dumbed down and misinformed population, most who are not old enough to remember that era.

Our here and now, fad driven culture only deems the latest compartmentalised trends important enough to occupy their thoughts and refuse to see that events and agendas which drive our nation do not simply spring up in a vacuum but are interconnected and continuous.

I am convinced that people will not wake up until the complete eradication of Constitutional guarantees and protections have been duly eliminated and the police state fully entrenched. At that point, you are correct, only fullscale armed revolt will bring it to an end. That cost in human life will, however, be enormous given the extent of the police and military aresenal at Washington's disposal.

 

If this happens, what can we do about it? This is clearly fascist and i refuse to sit by and watch America go completely down the shitter, but when the government has enough power to force all citizens to carry national ID cards, where do the people find the power to fight back?

 

I would suggest copying and pasting this onto as many free speech forums as you can find.