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IT'S HERE!!!! All 50 states agree to upgrade driver's licenses
Boston Globe Online ^
| 1/14/02
| Ross Kerber
Posted on 01/14/2002 6:49:14 AM PST by Jethro Tull
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billofrights; biometrics; hughhewitt
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To: Jethro Tull
I don't see what the LP platform has to do with it. As conservatives gleefully point out at every available opportunity, this platform has not been enacted and has little chance of being enacted anytime soon.
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:09:49 AM PST
by
alpowolf
To: Jethro Tull
Neighbor, I fought the "thumbprint id" on the Georgia driver's license until I was blue in the face. Wrote letters & mini-editorials, called talk shows, even made friends with a state Senator who was trying to get an exemption based on religion.... all failed miserably. Much like my effort on the state flag. It is sickening how easily citizens can be spun to give away their hard-won freedoms and privacies.
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:10:00 AM PST
by
backhoe
To: BlackbirdSST
It would seem if the ID I now carry is good enough for the state to issue me a different ID, then there is no need for the additional IDDING! DING! DING! That's the winning answer! No database is any better than the data that's in it.
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:12:27 AM PST
by
alpowolf
To: Sabertooth
No excuses for Clinton, but much of what you're complaining about is a function of state law, no? It was state law filtered into the election code and conservatives were right in their assessments that it would lead to abuse, which it has, in spades. I've served as election judge for many years and I am gernarlly energized by my involvement but this last election was the very first which caused me to go home bone-tired and utterly disgusted with election matters.
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:19:57 AM PST
by
Slyfox
To: Jethro Tull
At least several of the terrorists who struck on that day are believed to have fraudulently obtained licenses in Virginia and other states known for their weak license controls. As if standardizing (do I hear "federalizing"?!) ID content alone will magically make things more secure ...
Also, as a computer guy of sorts, I found it strangely ironic that the man who penned this article re: security is named Kerber, Ross
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:21:24 AM PST
by
mikrofon
To: Sabertooth
This is too much. Letters and votes will probably not be enough. Closer and closer to the tatoo parlor.
To: Jethro Tull
I send a special "well done" to all Pubbies who supported America's (non) immigration policy and to their allies, the Libertarian Party, who include an open border policy in their party platform. Why kudos to the Liberatarian Party?
Not a single one of them has ever been elected to federal office.
The fault belongs to the pubbies and demmies you elected.
To: Uncle Sausage
You will be able to upgrade to "shackled slave" soon. Watch here for date and time.
To: Jethro Tull
Good article, JT.
You hit the true central crux of the event:
First government fails to perform one of its central duties properly, then....Second, the citizenry is expected to sacrifice liberties to make up for the crisis</>
Thus the modern thrust of liberalism continues, both parties reflecting the populace and its disinterest in our form of republic.
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:29:44 AM PST
by
KC Burke
To: Harrison Bergeron
everybody - even conservatives on FR - thought it was a good idea.No, not everybody. Some of still understand the concept of Unintended Consequences.
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posted on
01/14/2002 8:34:00 AM PST
by
Dr.Deth
To: Dr.Deth
Obviously, that was a rhetorical "everybody." But thosed opposed to the National Employee Database when I posted the info a few years back were outnumbered easily by a hundred to one. The comments were as predictable as
"Well, if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" and
"If you're against it, you must be a deadbeat dad." Now, are we going to hear refrains of "If you're against this, you must be a terrorist?"
To: kellynla
#2:
"Trouble is in Kalifornia you don't have to be a citizen to get a driver's license..."...or for medical benefits, or public education, or welfare benefits, or food stamps, or public housing, or bi-lingual education, or midnight basketball...
To: Uncle Sausage
#3: Absolutely!
To: Jethro Tull
If the Libertarians ran things, you wouldn't be lamenting your lost rights and privacy.
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posted on
01/14/2002 9:14:57 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: Jethro Tull
Breaking down the national borders is a part of the agenda of these people. They allow unlimited immigration to do exactly that. When Bush said that he saw no use for a national id card, he was simply saying that he saw that his support of it would be unpopular. He did not say that it would not be enacted by other means. He is using the same method that the left uses to advance their agenda. If it is not wise to proceed in one direction, simply send up a smoke screen and proceed in another direction to accomplish the same thing.
We are losing our country and our freedoms. It is being done in incremental steps. So get used to it. The process will continue.
To: all
Your papers, please.
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posted on
01/14/2002 9:17:03 AM PST
by
mysterio
To: backhoe
Neighbor, I fought the "thumbprint id" on the Georgia driver's license until I was blue in the face. Wrote letters & mini-editorials, called talk shows, even made friends with a state Senator who was trying to get an exemption based on religion.... all failed miserably. Much like my effort on the state flag. It is sickening how easily citizens can be spun to give away their hard-won freedoms and privacies. They have an actual thumbprint image on the driver's license?
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posted on
01/14/2002 9:26:06 AM PST
by
Fury
To: Lazamataz
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"Cheshire-Puss, would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
"I don't much care where----" said Alice.
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To: Harrison Bergeron
RE:
"National Employment Database" Please tell us more about this National Employment Database.
To my knowledge, I'm not registered in it, nor are any members of my family.
To: CJ Wolf
"...too bad none of those who you blame are not in power to blame...If the WTC towers hadn't crumbled on 9-11, Bush would have granted citzenship to untold millions of illegals into our country. Most of those who voted for him supported this decision.
As for the Libertarians, you can't have it both ways.
You either are a member of the party and support it's platform, or join those of us who think that should certain planks of their platform = more dead Americans...
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