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Title: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: LostInTime on January 18, 2007, 07:20:20 AM
Link (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/national_id_to_.html)

A program to standardize state driver's licenses to create a de facto national I.D. should use a third-party -- most likely a private contractor -- to verify that a person is eligible for a driver's license or state identification card, according to a document provided to 27B by a privacy activist. The document appears to be a portion of the rules that Homeland Security is proposing for the program, which are currently being evaluated by the Office of Management and Budget before they are presented to the public for comment.
Title: Real ID Act --- National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: tinkerbell on January 20, 2007, 09:12:36 AM
Quote from: articleA program to standardize state driver's licenses to create a de facto national I.D. should use a third-party -- most likely a private contractor -- to verify that a person is eligible for a driver's license or state identification card, according to a document provided to 27B by a privacy activist. The document appears to be a portion of the rules that Homeland Security is proposing for the program, which are currently being evaluated by the Office of Management and Budget before they are presented to the public for comment.

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:icon_nervious:  The real ID act, huh?  National security?  Yeah..whatever! it is just plain invasion of privacy, that's what it is.

hmmmm...could this be the mark of the beast?  time to burn off our fingerprints, kitties.

tinkerbell :icon_chick:
Title: Re: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: cindianna_jones on February 23, 2007, 02:22:14 PM
1984 came 30 years too early.

Cindi
Title: Re: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: Sarah Louise on February 23, 2007, 03:17:45 PM
This is only another step in the whole progression of things.

               It Will Get Worse!

Sarah L.
Title: Re: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: kaelin on February 23, 2007, 04:35:46 PM
I suppose corporations really will own the US in the end.

All the more reason for me to get out...
Title: Re: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: cindianna_jones on February 23, 2007, 06:53:19 PM
Quote from: Kaelin on February 23, 2007, 04:35:46 PM
I suppose corporations really will own the US in the end.

All the more reason for me to get out...

They already do.  We no longer own the cement factories, the steel companies, the car companies.  Farm conglomerates are owned by foreign interests.  Our ports are controlled by multi nationals.  And most of the bonds we sell go to other countries.  Talk is open on selling our roads.  Some have already been sold.

Well, when it gets too bad, we'll go to our closets and get out the.......

Cindi
Title: Re: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: Ricki on February 23, 2007, 07:15:57 PM
The microchips inserted under our skin will be short to follow, watch and see..........
Agghhh the humanity of it all.. :o
Ricki
Title: Re: Blog: National ID to Be Privatized, Activist Says He Has Docs
Post by: Chaunte on February 24, 2007, 11:56:06 PM

Robert Heinlein wrote a numer of stories and novels about people colonizing other worlds because the government here on Earth was too all-powerful.

Time to move off-world...

Chaunte