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Quote by: underbear1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/archives/003778.html
February 11, 2005 National ID Card May Be Right Around the Corner
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Thursday a sweeping set of rules aimed at forcing states to issue all adults federally approved electronic ID cards, including driver's licenses. The measure, called the Real ID Act, says that driver's licenses and other ID cards must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag. The Department of Homeland Security would be charged with drafting the details of the regulation. Your Social Security Number would be linked to the cards in order to make certain of your ID and to help to cut down on identity theft. You would need the card to buy guns and receive driver licenses. This was unusual that both the ACLU and the NRA were on the same side, both against the measure. At least they don’t force us all to have embedded microchips.
This had NOTHING to do with gun registration, it was merely a photo ID. |
Wow, thanks a lot for that article, I'm going to read up on that because it brings up so many issues.
The national ID card I thought I remember was for immigration issues, they claimed to be able to make one that was fraud proof which would be a joke.
Wonder if this was the same one?
IMO, what you do is data base everyone with their picture, social security number, and state ID number. Maybe you consider fingerprinting all the citizens, but for sure anyone illegal here or anyone convicted of a crime should do the above and should be made to give DNA as well.
Thanks for that article, that is darn interesting and I have not seen that.
I'm going to look up the reasoning behind this between he two parties.