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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MrLucky who wrote (16349)	4/7/2006 4:20:23 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543623

No and No. Well, since you apparently just fell off the turnip truck...<g> Civil libertarians and paleoconservatives are seriously opposed. Have been historically. I remember the fights a few decades back about collecting and using SSN for anything but social security because it became effectively a national ID number. Dunno, maybe the most intense opposition has died out by now. Or maybe 9/11 "changed everything." Here's a small example of the opposition. "Radley Balko On walking, quacking, swimming, and crapping like a duck... Rep. David Dreier's new bill will not create a new national identification card. Oh sure, it will add a magnetic identification strip and identifying photo to your existing Social Security card, and you'll be required to present the new card for identification any time you want to apply for a new job. At that point, your prospective employer would then check the identification listed on your card against a national database which identifies eligible employees. But Rep. Dreier's bill will not create a national identification card. How do I know? The card will say so! Look: To offset fears of government intrusion, the card would be clearly marked, "This is not a national ID card," Dreier said. Well in that case... Posted on Wednesday, January 26, 2005" hnn.us