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wwarner11 · 11-19-2001, 06:39 PM

dhamsaic

I would like to bring up some additional reasons why a national id would be wrong for this country and it's citizens. I have said in a previous post that once congress becomes involved with a national id you will never know the finished product. We have today through technologies, the ability to set up a national data base where, if we are mandated, to have a government id card where we would loose many of our hard fought freedoms. With the technology that is available today we would have digital fingerprinting, electronic retinal scans and whatever state of the art that would be available thought biometric technologies that today is unknown to us.We are about to enter a frontier that we know nothing about and yet we or some of us will give up our future freedoms based on future technologies that we know nothing about. Before Sept 11th many people where up in arms about TV surveillance, cameras at traffic lights. People raised so much hell that a revolution of sorts was coming to the surface and cities were backing down because we the people said stop it. Then came Sept 11th and this issue took a back seat. Suppose there is another Sept 11th and we have a national id law in place. Do I show my id when I cross the Walt Whitman bridge, or better yet will the government track me through my ez pass. I go from one town to another? Are we then truly free? The answer is a very big no. It is at that time that we the people are no longer in charge. I have one passport to travel from one country to another, I do not need a domestic passport to travel either intra or inter state. This is very important, do not succumb to the easy answers, for once we do not want to give up our liberties and freedom We are still the government and lets keep it that way.

11-19-2001, 06:39 PM	#18
wwarner11 Complex Simpleton Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NJ Posts: 18	dhamsaic I would like to bring up some additional reasons why a national id would be wrong for this country and it's citizens. I have said in a previous post that once congress becomes involved with a national id you will never know the finished product. We have today through technologies, the ability to set up a national data base where, if we are mandated, to have a government id card where we would loose many of our hard fought freedoms. With the technology that is available today we would have digital fingerprinting, electronic retinal scans and whatever state of the art that would be available thought biometric technologies that today is unknown to us.We are about to enter a frontier that we know nothing about and yet we or some of us will give up our future freedoms based on future technologies that we know nothing about. Before Sept 11th many people where up in arms about TV surveillance, cameras at traffic lights. People raised so much hell that a revolution of sorts was coming to the surface and cities were backing down because we the people said stop it. Then came Sept 11th and this issue took a back seat. Suppose there is another Sept 11th and we have a national id law in place. Do I show my id when I cross the Walt Whitman bridge, or better yet will the government track me through my ez pass. I go from one town to another? Are we then truly free? The answer is a very big no. It is at that time that we the people are no longer in charge. I have one passport to travel from one country to another, I do not need a domestic passport to travel either intra or inter state. This is very important, do not succumb to the easy answers, for once we do not want to give up our liberties and freedom We are still the government and lets keep it that way.