IT'S HERE!!!! All 50 states agree to upgrade driver's licenses

Boston Globe Online ^ | 1/14/02 | Ross Kerber

[Jethro Tull]

Officials from all 50 states have agreed to cooperate on upgrading driver's license security features, giving momentum to efforts to turn the licenses into de facto national identity cards.

The state officials may also seek $70 million or more in federal funds to study issues like how they might include data such as fingerprints or digital photographs on the driver's licenses, which are carried by more than 200 million Americans.

[D. Miles]

This last election, in TN, the state was given a ruling by DOJ concerning motor voter,if they claimed to have signed up to vote, we were to check with public safety records, if they said they signed, we were to allow them to vote. The way around that was to have poll watchers at all polls and they could contest the vote. Of course this ruling came down on Friday just before closing, and most election commissions did not get the info until Tuesday after the polls had opened!

[Cincinatus]

But I could use a certified aerosol can of "Pubbie Bullshit Repellent."

No need to worry about that, Jethro -- like repels like.

Regards, as always.

[Zon]

What are you going to do? Give up the license and all that goes with it? Submit now and fight it legislatively and in the courts? Take a sack of seeds and go live off the land?

Know that the national/state ID is being forced on you. What's a person to do? Here's one idea. Go offshore with your valuables; home, car, money, investments, etc. Get an offshore credit card or debit card and use it only at the ATM. Starve the leviathan and it will perish. If it doesn't, at least it won't be a parasite living off your labor.

[Jethro Tull]

# 99:"Do you agree 100% with absolutely everything your party's (whichever party you support) platform?"

No, that's why I refuse to belong to a party.

[alpowolf]

That I can understand. It's pretty frustrating no matter what you do.