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To: stockman_scott who wrote (4034)	10/9/2001 6:15:46 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13815

Scott: Regardless of ID cards or not. I would take the approach of producing first a centralized data base of anyone who cannot be an anti-US Terrorist. Despite living here only 6 years, I am surrounded by historic families who have lived in the area since 1800's There are the C's. the T's the L's, and the Wrights( of Jim Wright clan) . Give me the job and in three days I could give you a thousand names that could not be terrorists, and they could give me 10000 more distant relatives across the country. The records exist in local realtor offices, DMV, welfare rolls, IRS records. and especially in the minds of local residents , fire chiefs, and county police who remember every incident in the whole county since 1920. I understand the Mormon church has a major database also, and a knowlegable trusted person could produce a list of guaranteed non-terrorists of the category sought. I would have no objection if all this assorted info and legally collected data were sent thru an exotic Dell computer and stored in a massive EMC data base to be perused by a new government anti- terrorist agency who would have to obey present laws in releasing the data to unqualified persons. Identifying non-terrorists would IMO leave less than 1% "questionables" in the category of transients, illegal immigrants, and stolen ID situations. A much smaller hay-stack to search Sig