Re: [privacy] Social Security Card to be National ID?

["Randy Abrams" <abrams () eset com>]

And yet it will not accomplish either. It will add a product line to the black market. Criminals with funding will buy 
the technology to beat the ID card, and will also sell excellent counterfeits on the black market, making it harder to 
discover an illegal alien. For the law abiding American it will only facilitate government tracking.
 
It's simply a proposal that no American who values freedom at all could accept as anything less than an assault on the 
rights and freedoms of the innocent.
 
Cheers,
 
Randy


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        From: C Q [mailto:kyle.c.quest () gmail com] 
        Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 5:54 PM
        To: Fergie
        Cc: privacy () whitestar linuxbox org
        Subject: Re: [privacy] Social Security Card to be National ID?
        
        
        You are right. I didn't word it correctly. I meant to say that
        I talked about those two issues. Yes, one of the main benefits
        behind introducing National ID is to have better tools
        in preventing what you mentioned (the whole pilot license thing). 
        I agree that this should really be about that and less about
        controlling illegals. It's just that website with the original article
        tried to get immigration into the mix. I just had to say something about that... 
        
        
        
        On 5/18/07, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote: 

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                >There are two issues here:
                >1. National ID and its benefits 
                >2. Illegal aliens and their impact on the lives of the people who live in
                >the US.
                >
                
                Actually, no.
                
                Number 2 should be "Prohibiting terrorists from obtaining pilot's
                licenses." 
                
                It is nothing less than disingenuous to color this debate on a
                National ID card as an illegal immigration control issue.
                
                After 11 September 2001, the _entire_ impetus for a National ID
                card (née Real ID) was to put into a place a mechanism to identify 
                people who weren't supposed to be here -- namely terrorists.
                
                - - ferg
                
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                --
                "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
                Engineering Architecture for the Internet
                fergdawg(at)netzero.net
                ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
                
                


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