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Originally posted by sycamore
So, if we DID go to a "standard" national ID system, how would it work? Would I be number 200,123,418? What happens when people die, or move across state lines? How exactly would we ID people? By gender, race, or state of origin?
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Once you have one's social security number, you have the first key to open everything in a persons life. How to find it? It is often used as the library card number in the back of old college library books it is that easy to find a SS#. Simply provide an IRS agent with some money and the SS#. He can ID your entire financial picture, criminal records, and numerous other facts. What he cannot provide, he can provide enough information for you to go elsewhere for the rest.
In most places, that SS can also be enough to own another man's birth certificate. Again, since we have no national ID system, then that can be enough to obtain one of the world's most prized documents - a US passport.
Everyone has unique features. Two more typical features are iris and fingerprints. In all database systems - every one - currently in use, this information is provided to the requestor because he is trying to find or confirm you. It is provided for the benefit of everyone else but you. In a national ID system, your unique features are submitted to the database that only says all that information is correct - you are who you say you are. A national ID confirmation system does not provide third parties with any useful information.
Big difference. Emotional enemies who see the boogy man behind every federal building and courthouse fear this - because government might learn about us - ignoring that they already have this information. Your biggest fear is that other third parties obtain that information. Currently they do so under the guises of trying to confirm who you are. IOW because we have no national ID system, then other systems make it easy for the criminal to obtain your ID.
Logical people would never have this fear of government information. The problem is that information is currently available to everyone who is willing to be deceiptful - because we have no national ID confirmation system - we have so many who emotionally fear anything new in government.