National ID cards before election: D. McCullagh

[teryang]

Sometimes I think our legislators are really aliens from another universe trying to implement their plans for a slave world:

http://news.com.com/Patriot+Act+redux/2010-1071-5414087.html?part=dht&tag=npro&tag=nl.e433

Patriot Act redux?
By Declan McCullagh
http://news.com.com/Patriot+Act+redux/2010-1071_3-5414087.html

Story last modified October 18, 2004, 4:00 AM PDT

<snip>One section anticipates storing the "lifetime travel history of each foreign national or United States citizen" into a database for the convenience of government officials. It mentions passports, but there's nothing that would preclude recording the details of trips that Americans take inside the United States.

President Bush would be required to create a "secure information sharing" network to exchange data among law enforcement, military and spy agencies. Aside from a bland assurance that "civil liberties" will be protected, there are zero details on what databases will be vacuumed in or what oversight will take place.<snip>

<Still, the Senate bill is no prize. A last-minute amendment added by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would require the Department of Homeland Security to create an "integrated screening system" inside the United States.

McCain envisions erecting physical checkpoints, dubbed "screening points," near subways, airports, bus stations, train stations, federal buildings, telephone companies, Internet hubs and any other "critical infrastructure" facility deemed vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Secretary Tom Ridge would appear to be authorized to issue new federal IDs--with biometric identifiers--that Americans could be required to show at checkpoints. <snip>

[asjr]

1. I wonder if we will have a Checkpoint Charlie.

[teryang]

2. So little insight into the Constitution they swore to uphold

The whole notion of interstate commerce, and the United States itself was that commerce flow freely between and among states for the welfare of all. No customs or duties at the borders, terminals, ports or roads. This one feature of federalism made our country economically and politically viable.

Are these people fuckups, aliens or what?

[Laelth]

3. I'm beginning to wonder ...

whether I want to live in the country these mis-guided nazi fools are trying to create. Doesn't sound like the America I know and love.

:(

-Laelth