December 9, 2004

"Your Papers Please"

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

By: Jonathan Wheeler

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.

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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.     

(snip)

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.

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Full article at "What Does It Mean" ...
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index575.htm


Cheers, Steve...

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