Bush hard at work!

**swark** · December 13th, 2004, 06:43 PM

Slowly losing our civil liberties!!!!

US adopts National ID: Homeland Security Now In charge of Regulations for all US States Drivers Licenses and Birth Certificates

Jonathan Wheeler | December 10 2004

In a chilling act more reminiscent of the now defunct Soviet Union or the Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler, the United States Congress passed legislation yesterday that requires the States to surrender their regulatory rights over driver's licenses and birth certificates to The Department of Homeland Security.

The massive US Intelligence Reform Bill weighed in at over 3,000 pages and though unread by individual Members of either the House or Senate nevertheless passed all of the legislative hurdles needed in order to become law.

President Bush lobbied hard for these provisions, only objecting when Senator Sensenbrenner attempted to require these same provisions for illegal aliens but which the President opposed. This provision was dropped from the final bill.

Beginning in 2005, the Department of Homeland Security will issue new uniformity regulations to the States requiring that all Drivers Licenses and Birth Certificates meet minimal Federal Standards with regard to US citizen information, including biometric security provisions.

Added to currently existing Federal Laws and Supreme Court rulings American citizens when born will be issued a Social Security Number that will be included on their Birth Certificates, along with DNA biometric markers. All birth certificates will also be registered in a Federal Government database maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. No child will be allowed enrollment to schools or be entitled to either State of Federal Government benefits programs without first presenting a certified Homeland Security registered Birth Certificate.

Drivers Licenses will also contain DNA biometric markers and include the holders Social Security Number and be required for receiving and applying for all State and Federal benefits programs. Previous Supreme Court rulings have also upheld State and Federal Law Enforcement authorities right to request Identification from any American citizen, for any reason and at any time as not being violations of their, the citizens, constitutionally protected rights.

Major Banks and credit card companies have applauded the adoption of a National ID system as being important to counter fraud and increasing instances of identity theft. National ID cards with biometric markers will eliminate them from having to issue Credit and Debit cards, which for the first time in US history have surpassed the usage of checks and cash. Utilizing The Department of Homeland Securities centralized federal database, Banks and credit card companies will only require the presentation of a citizens Driver's License to make purchases as all of the persons financial information, including credit and cash balances, will already be known in ?real time'. (The combining of Homeland Security and Banking databases on citizen's balances and purchases, along with their past and present purchasing information, has been allowed under previous Federal Laws including the Patriot Act.)

Also included in this bill is a law to require The Department of Homeland Security to establish a separate ID system for citizens to use prior to boarding airplanes, and which is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet and Nazi regimes dreaded Internal Passport.

Never before in our history have the words of Benjamin Franklin been so correct when he stated: "people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both".

Today, December 9, 2004 will be one of those moments in time that future historians will look back on and pin point as being the day that the United States of American, and as it was founded by its forefathers, ceased to exist

59Finz · December 15th, 2004, 07:31 PM

Who is this Jonathan Wheeler and who does he write for?? I believe he's a liberal writer and is attempting to make the conservatives look as bad as possible. However, if I remember right this was highly supported (according to the vote in both the Congress and Senate) by both Liberals and Conservatives.....so .....who's to blame.

It is true.....we are in a mess with stolen identities and easy access by foreigners to every privilege of American citizenship. So this may be a feeble attempt to try to right some of that....and yes in the process we may loose part of our freedom. Of course, the administration of that sort of thing in the Soviet Union by an oppressive dictatorship is far different then our democratically elected representatives that are suppose to be protecting our liberties. The real ones we have to keep an eye on is the judiciary. They have a lot of power and they are not accountable to the citizens.

**gotXyourXcancer** · December 15th, 2004, 09:02 PM

The bill was supported more widely by Democrats than Republicans... it was the Republicans who were trying to block the bill this time. I was actually there this time in the gallery watching in person this shit go down. They DID read the bill, theyve had numerous amounts of weeks to do so.

**two drink minimum** · December 15th, 2004, 10:30 PM

Originally posted by gotXyourXcancer:
The bill was supported more widely by Democrats than Republicans... it was the Republicans who were trying to block the bill this time. I was actually there this time in the gallery watching in person this shit go down. They DID read the bill, theyve had numerous amounts of weeks to do so.

The dems are pussies. How sad is it that the only recognizable figure on the left is Michael Moore?

**hour_of_darkness** · December 15th, 2004, 11:19 PM

Originally posted by two drink minimum:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by gotXyourXcancer:
The bill was supported more widely by Democrats than Republicans... it was the Republicans who were trying to block the bill this time. I was actually there this time in the gallery watching in person this shit go down. They DID read the bill, theyve had numerous amounts of weeks to do so.

The dems are pussies. How sad is it that the only recognizable figure on the left is Michael Moore?<hr /></blockquote>You got Howard Dean too, but he made weird noises on TV and that kinda blew it.

**two drink minimum** · December 15th, 2004, 11:51 PM

Originally posted by hour_of_darkness:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by two drink minimum:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by gotXyourXcancer:
The bill was supported more widely by Democrats than Republicans... it was the Republicans who were trying to block the bill this time. I was actually there this time in the gallery watching in person this shit go down. They DID read the bill, theyve had numerous amounts of weeks to do so.

The dems are pussies. How sad is it that the only recognizable figure on the left is Michael Moore?<hr /></blockquote>You got Howard Dean too, but he made weird noises on TV and that kinda blew it.<hr /></blockquote>The Republicans on capital hill never refer to Dean when discussing the opposing view. I was watching Cristoper Cox on C SPAN two days ago and he discussed the opposition to the Department of Homeland Security... Michael Moore. Fucking pathetic.