Posted on 09/18/2001 1:45:43 PM PDT by jkc054
In response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Congress is considering requiring all citizens and non-citizens to carry identity cards. Those might be “smart cards” storing data such as fingerprints and travel records. Congressional leaders are also discussing tight limits on granting visas to enter the United States and a system of tracking those who are admitted. Such steps would mark a historic change in the lives of Americans and visitors to the United States.
REVIEWING THE QUESTIONS that congressional leaders were raising last Thursday, House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt told Fox News, “What kind of identity cards would we make citizens and others carry? Would they carry more information?” Gephardt acknowledged that Americans, in the past, rejected ideas such as a national identification card as a possible infringement on civil liberties. But he indicated that last week’s terror attacks had changed the nature of the debate. Congress, he said, would need to quickly debate measures such as a national ID card.
NO TRACKING
That Gephardt, a liberal Democrat who previously opposed restrictions on immigration, is calling for serious consideration of such steps reflects the gravity of the threat the United States faces.
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Not now. Not later. Not never.
Nyet, nein, non.
Am I making myself clear? Did I mention the guns?
Let the evil bastards who perpetrated this act suffer the consequences. Not the liberty of Americans.
Right.
Exactly. First it's the ID card and then we will have to submit DNA samples.
Nyet. No. Non.
Don't even think about it you little Richard.
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