[kjam22]

It will be interesting to see if this makes it through the OK House... and if our newely elected democrat Governor will approve it. I suspect Keating would have approved it without much question.

[Hodar]

"I think it's a giveaway of personal freedoms. You can always justify giving up freedom for safety."

One of the main purposes of a Drivers License (aside from a license to drive) is to prove your identity. As your drivers license database has your SSAN, your address, your next of kin, donor info; height/weight and your picture; I fail to see how a fingerprint is in any way considered 'giving away a personal freedom'.

[Dialup Llama]

>Someday that kind of information also will be on people's passports, he said.

Because this type of info may be on a passport in the future we should include it in a drivers license today. Would someone instruct this dope that a drivers license is not a passport.

[Conspiracy Guy]

To the opponents of improving proof of identity I have just scanned my finger in their general direction.

[JimRed]

I have mixed feelings about this one; since I don't intend to pretend to be someone I'm not, it won't affect me in the least. But in principal I don't like the idea of more about me on file with the government than they already have...

That's why I returned only the first page of my 2000 census booklet; they only need to know how many people live here, the rest is none of their business.

[Rodney King]

The scan will be converted into data that will be on file in the Public Safety Department, and can be used to keep someone from using another's license or stealing someone's identity

How will this prevent someone from stealing your identity? I have had mine stolen. They don't come and take your drivers license. They hack a computer somewhere and steal all of you personal info and create credit cards in your name. They have no use for your drivers license whatsoever.

By the way, there are only a few thousand people doing this, and Ashcroft could stomp them out in a minute but he has decided to spend his time going after guys who make ceramic smoking pipes instea.

[backhoe]

Guard what little remains of your personal freedom very jealously, neighbor.

We have this nonsense in Georgia- I opposed it, without success.

First, they just wanted a thumbprint, then the next time, both index fingers... my guess is the will get the full set eventually.

After they enacted the law- which clearly stated the thumbprint would "be used for no other purpose"- they were talking about integrating the prints they had into a "terrorist database."

No further explantions of what that meant ever came forth.

My prints have been on file for years ( security clearances ) and I was not concerned about myself, but I did have concerns for everyone not yet printed. The potential for abuse is kind of staggering.

[tang-soo]

Check out the video clips of Alex Jones (of www.infowars.com) dealing with this issue in Texas a few years back. I'm curious to find out what eventually happened. here

[tang-soo]

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