Posted on 04/01/2013 1:41:36 PM PDT by Mozilla
A plan being pushed in Congress right now by senators from both major political parties would force all Americans to get a biometric national ID card. It is being promoted as a key "immigration reform" measure, but the truth is that a national ID card is much more about the government's endless appetite for more control over the American people. If this national ID card plan is passed by Congress, you will not be able to get a job without one. So how are you going to survive if you can't work? In addition, this national ID card would undoubtedly soon be used to identify us for all sorts of other purposes. For example, have you tried to open up a bank account lately? They make you jump through all sorts of hoops to prove that you are who you say that you are. So what would happen if the government decided to require you to show your national ID card before opening up a bank account? If you refused to get a card, how would you be able to function in society without a bank account? Would you try to conduct all of your transactions in cash only? That might work for a while. And of course you would not be able to drive or get on a plane without your national ID card. So forget about going anywhere. Are you starting to get the picture? Unfortunately, the push for a national ID card in the United States is only a small part of the overall push toward a "global ID card" that is happening all over the planet. The eventual goal is to have a "universal ID" that every man, woman and child on the planet will be forced to take.
That is why it is so important for the American people to speak up about this.
Right now, all of the big mainstream media outlets are lining up on the side of a national ID card. For instance, just check out this short excerpt from a recent Washington Post article entitled "The case for a national ID card"...
An effective solution would be to issue tamper-proof, biometric ID cards — using fingerprints or a comparably unique identifier — to all citizens and legal residents. Last week, both President Obama and a bipartisan group of eight senators seeking immigration reform urged something along those lines, without calling it a universal national identity card. That’s a major step forward.
And of course the Wall Street Journal is reporting on this too...
Key senators are exploring an immigration bill that would force every U.S. worker—citizen or not—to carry a high-tech identity card that could use fingerprints or other personal markers to prove a person's legal eligibility to work.
The idea, signaled only in vaguely worded language from senators crafting a bipartisan immigration bill, has privacy advocates and others concerned that the law would create a national identity card that, in time, could track Americans at airports, hospitals and through other facets of their lives.
According to investigative reporter James Tucker, there are those in the Obama administration that are optimistic that they will be able to get a national ID card through Congress now that Ron Paul has left the House of Representatives...
At a recent reception in Washington, D.C., an AMERICAN FREE PRESS source overheard Thomas E. Donilon, a White House national security advisor and past Bilderberg member, speaking of Paul’s retirement and the good chance that the global card could now be shepherded through Congress. Paul’s son, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), would not object to the plan, added the individual with whom Donilon was talking. He was referring to the fact that Senator Paul has backed off from the strong pro-nationalist positions of his father because he is fantasizing about being elected president in 2016.
So will anyone in Congress step up and fight this on behalf of the American people?
Let's hope so.
But of course there are many other large nations that are actually far ahead of the United States when it comes to implementing this global ID card scheme.
Just check out what is going on in Indonesia...
Since the start of the government of Indonesia’s multi-modal biometrics-based National Electronic ID Card (e-KTP) program in August 2011, record enrollments are being achieved across the country’s population of 172 million ID-eligible residents.
More than 103 million people have been enrolled and de-duplicated in one year with 80% or 140 million residents of the eligible population already enrolled and 85% already processed. Statistics show that over 1 million de-duplication transactions are being achieved in a single day in the data center and 600,000 enrollments being achieved in a single day in the field. In addition 60 million ID cards have been printed.
And India is currently collecting biometric information on more than a billion people...
In India, a massive effort is underway to collect biometric identity information for each of the country’s 1.2 billion people. The incredible plan, dubbed the “mother of all e-governance projects” by the Economic Times, has stirred controversy in India and beyond, raising serious concerns about the privacy and security of individuals’ personal data.
The plan is moving ahead at a clip under the auspices of the National Population Register (NPR) and the Unique ID (UID) programs, separately governed initiatives that have an agreement to integrate the data they collect to build the world’s largest biometric database. Upon enrollment, individuals are issued 12-digit unique ID numbers on chip-based identity cards. For residents who lack the necessary paperwork to obtain certain kinds of employment or government services, there’s strong incentive to get a unique ID. While the UID program is voluntary, enrollment in the NPR program is mandatory for all citizens.
Are you starting to understand what is happening?
This is a global effort.
At this point, there are approximately 100 countries that now issue mandatory ID cards, and undoubtedly this campaign to gather the biometric information of every person on earth will continue to spread.
In fact, soon you may not even be able to log in to your favorite Internet sites without a fingerprint or an iris scan.
Does that sound crazy to you?
It doesn't sound crazy to the major technology firms that are a part of the Fast Identity Online Alliance...
Imagine logging on to your eBay account with your fingerprint. Or perhaps accessing your Facebook account via an iris scan.
It might seem a bit much for the average computer user, but it may not be that far off if an initiative is successful.
The use of biometric data as an added security measure is just one of the solutions being proposed by a consortium of firms who have come together to form the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance.
We live in a world that has become obsessed with information and obsessed with security.
At first, we may all just be forced to carry around ID cards, but eventually cards will not be considered to be good enough.
Cards are easily lost, they can be stolen, and they can be forged.
But what about an electronic tattoo?
Wouldn't that be much more secure?
That is the argument that will be made.
And the advancements that have been made in the field of electronic tattoos lately have got a lot of scientists very excited...
Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say.
Does that sound "cool" to you?
That is how these changes will be marketed to the public. They will be sold as the "hip" and "cool" things to do.
But the truth is that these electronic tattoos are incredibly dangerous. They can receive electrical signals from your brain, and they can also send electrical signals to your brain...
The devices are less than 100 microns thick, the average diameter of a human hair. They consist of circuitry embedded in a layer or rubbery polyester that allow them to stretch, bend and wrinkle. They are barely visible when placed on skin, making them easy to conceal from others.
The devices can detect electrical signals linked with brain waves, and incorporate solar cells for power and antennas that allow them to communicate wirelessly or receive energy. Other elements can be added as well, like thermal sensors to monitor skin temperature and light detectors to analyze blood oxygen levels.
This is very frightening stuff.
But most people just do whatever the "authorities" tell them to do without thinking about it.
So will you take a national ID card if Congress requires you to?
Will you take an electronic tattoo on your hand or your forehead someday if the authorities require it for "security" reasons?
The control freaks that run things just love to find new ways to watch us, track us and control us.
For example, just check out what is going on in New York City. The following is from a recent article in the Telegraph...
Created by Microsoft and the New York Police Department, the Domain Awareness System, known as "the dashboard," is state-of-the-art crime fighting technology.
"The dashboard," instantaneously mines data from the NYPD's vast collection of arrest records, emergency 911 calls, more than 3,000 security cameras, license plate readers and portable radiation detectors and aggregates it into a user-friendly, readable form in the control room.
Eventually, that data will be able to be seen in real time by officers on laptops in their squad cars and on mobile devices as they walk their beat.
Could you imagine how much more intrusive such a system would be if "national ID cards" were constantly feeding information about all of us into their computers?
But the "authorities" insist that all of this "security" is making life so much "better" and "safer" for all of us.
Well, what about for 3-year-old Lucy Schulte?
She is a sweet little disabled girl in a wheelchair that has Spina bifida. Recently she was getting ready to get on a plane to go to Disney World, but TSA workers decided that she was a potential terrorist and so they manhandled her and confiscated her stuffed toy.
You can see very disturbing video of this incident below...
Is this really want we want America to become?
For much more on how America is being transformed into a Big Brother police state, please see the following article: "29 Signs That The Elite Are Transforming Society Into A Total Domination Control Grid".
So what do you think about all of this?
Do you believe that a global ID card is a good idea or a bad idea?
Would you take a national ID card if Congress made it mandatory?
Mark of the beast.
Can't they just tattoo us with a bar code or implant a microchip, or something?
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Once again, our brave Senate looking out for all of us!
They better be prepared to kill me (which they most likely would) because I’m not getting this.
That’s the “Mark of the Beast” (as Reagan once remarked, then followed through by not permitting it).
The reason the “Left Behind” series is so popular is because it no longer seems that far off.
Once a year for the last 5 years I’ve had to bring my birth certificate and passport to work to show HR. I’ve filled out a complete national database set of documents twice (can’t remember the name of the system, but finger prints are required.) I told them the second time that I was already in the system but was told “oh, we don’t access data, we just put it in.” It takes four hours to do your entire personal history. This time I kept a copy. I’m actually okay with identifying the employee. So, how are we employing all these illegal aliens? Are they exempt? At one employer a carpet company showed up to do a job and every employee was an illegal. They had to go hire citizens. I’m okay with that. But then the company later dropped the requirement for a background check to enter because it discriminated.
If national id cards are introduced to identify citizens, then there will be lawsuits against the discrimination of those without documents. The id system we have would work if it was allowed to, but the courts deny it. The same will happen with any new system. The more I think of it, denying the segregation of non-citizens from citizens is good since it will probably prevent that which many think will come to pass because of something written almost two thousand years ago.
The reason the “Left Behind” series is so popular is because it no longer seems that far off.
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You’ve got that right. All I can say is “Lord, please come soon”!
I used the “find” function in search of the word “beast”. Your post is the first mention. I didn’t read the article yet, but it’d be funny if that concept isn’t mentioned at all.
Because of these horrible requirements (I stopped when they demanded a drug test. That was the last straw in my book. I had a LOW tolerance for mistreatment at the hands of others) I now work like Robert Deniro’s character in Brazil.
Totally underground, practically ziplining from job to job.
The same government that wants to yoke US citizens with national ID cards and demands multiple proofs of identity for almost any transaction hypocritically favors giving illegal aliens drivers licenses and balks at requiring any ID when voting. Too bad the low information crowd doesn’t see this utter hypocrisy
I have zero problem with a drug test. I’d like them to demand a drug test to get welfare. I sat at a traffic light and watched five awesomely built, shirtless black men playing cards with a bottle of booze and a bong on the table. This was a Tuesday at about 10:00 am. The apartment was a Section 8 one that had been in the news for drug deals and shootings. Why should I pay so men with awesome builds can drink, smoke and play cards while I’m on my way to work to pay the taxes they’re living off? Every job I’ve had for my entire career has required a drug test with the possibility of random screening.
Oh, I am sure that many thought the same thing reading these articles. The MSM is complicit with the Beast, so any reference there would be in the form of mockery. This is how they, those who are complicit, operate.
No one spoke up when they regulated our flower gardens, now it's come to this.
You’ve got that right. All I can say is “Lord, please come soon”!
A little while ago, I would have been saying “Come on. It is not that bad.” However, today I tend to agree with you 100 percent. It is getting so out of control. Remember the days of “Calgon take me away” because the woman had a rough day at work and the kids were roody? Well now it seems that calgon should reintroduce the product and say “Calgon take me away” and show what is happening in the United States. Sometimes it is enough to make me have shivers through my body....no joke!
The last time that a blood-red moon (lunar eclipse) occurred ON a Jewish holiday was in 1967 during the 6 day war that re-established Israel as a nation/state.
Between September of 2014, and October of 2015, there will be FOUR lunar eclipses, and EACH ONE OF THEM will occur on a Jewish holiday.
Now we see stories like this...
It’s not really a matter of praying for Jesus to return soon.
It’s more of a matter of praying to ensure He will take you with Him WHEN he does come soon.
Check THIS out...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi78PmRX46Y
When it comes down to it, I just drew the line at the insult. There is no reasonable protest for drug tests from my mouth. I just won’t submit.
Same reason I wouldn’t submit to weekly visits to a parole officer if i’ve never been in jail. I don’t need checked up on, and I won’t submit to being treated like a scumbag from the get-go.
not now, Not ever.
“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people and I expect the same from them.”
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