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To: Echo Talon
Well, though a good idea, you can't even get people to agree on using opticals of any kind to look for terrorists, there's no way they'll agree to having 'honest' citizens have their photos in a computer.

To be honest I don't expect anything to get done that is reasonable, it would take a constitutional ammendment. That's never getting done. Look at term limits, there was a huge support for it, but when it was ruled unconstitutional, did you see anyone start a constitutional ammendment for that? Of course not.

The government is no longer ours and hasn't been for decades. We have no way to force action and all the platitudes about 'you have the power you can vote them out' are just that, a lot of words to placate the citizen while elected officials consolidate their power. How about if we had the power to recall our elected rep/sen? Now that would give us some control. But, again, that would take an ammendment and we aren't willing to fight, we'd rather complain.

27 posted on 11/09/2006 11:10:53 AM PST by Ruth C
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To: Ruth C
An ATM machine takes your picture, so does the store 7-11 or Wal-Mart K-Mart etc....
28 posted on 11/09/2006 11:23:38 AM PST by Echo Talon
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