hmm good point. I just forward these, since it sounds so ominous. I guess I've never been asked for my ss card to get on a plane, and I've refused to give it for medical care and still gotten it. Also, I doubt the card leads into some monolothic "massive data bank" like this article suggests the new id card would. And my ss card doesn't have my address on it, or my photo, or fingerprint ID. And I doubt my employer would care to use my number except for filing their end of the w-2 (I'm not sure what form they have to file for their employees).
ms
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig J. Bolton <lawecon@SWLINK.NET>
To: <LIBERTARIANS@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: OT: did you guys know this? i didn't
> Ah, would you please explain to us wwhat the difference is between
> a "Federal I.D. Card" and a Social Security Card?
>
>
> At 10:47 PM 1/22/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: kathy mcleod <klmcleod@ev1.net>
> >To: <raverg@hyperreal.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 9:23 PM
> >Subject: RG: OT: did you guys know this? i didn't
> >
> >
> >> Sent from a friend of mine:
> >>
> >>
> >> >From the American Policy Center
> >> Tom DeWeese, President
> >>
> >> American Policy Center
> >> 13873 Park Center Road
> >> Herndon, VA 20171
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> >>
> >>
> >> National Identification Card
> >> Back from the Dead...
> >>
> >> It was just this past October that legislation which established a green
> >> light for creating a National ID system was repealed through the
> >courageous
> >> efforts of Senator Richard Shelby, numerous Congressmen and the protests
> >of
> >> hundreds of thousands of Americans like you and me. Now, four months
> >> later, it has been resurrected.
> >>
> >> Congressman Bill Barrett (R-NE) has introduced HR 3429, the Legal
> >> Employment Authentication Program (LEAP) Act of 1999, a bill that will
> >> completely reinstate the federal ID system. Barrett's pandering to
> >federal
> >> bureaucrats and big business--both of whom want the federal government to
> >> gather information on you for their benefit--will overturn our hard-earned
> >> victory.
> >>
> >> You and I must react swiftly and with force--before this new effort to
> >> shackle Americans with "Big Brother's" chains has a chance to gain favor
> >in
> >> Congress. If passed, Barrett's bill will make it federal law that all
> >> Americans must carry a national identification card at all times.
> >>
> >> You will be required to show your ID card in order to cash a check, get on
> >> a plane or open a bank account. Without your national ID card you will
> >not
> >> be able to get medical care or get a job. That's right-it gives the
> >> federal government the power to clear all hiring decisions where even a 1%
> >> error in the data banks could result in 600,000 wrongful work denials.
> >> Think of what such an error in your medical file would mean! All of your
> >> personal information like income, medical records and personal family
> >> business will all be put into one massive federal data bank in order to
> >> make the card valid.
> >>
> >> This is an invasion of your privacy. It is an invasion of your
> >> Constitutional rights. It is an outrage.
> >>
> >> We must exert pressure to bury this legislation NOW in order to avoid a
> >> long and costly battle. In addition to calling our own Congressmen we
> >must
> >> call Congressman Bill Goodling, Chariman of the House Committee on
> >> Education and the Workforce. His committee will decide whether or not to
> >> approve HR 3429 and move it to the floor of the House of Representatives
> >> for a vote. In short, whether or not we are shackled with a National ID
> >> card is in Chairman Goodling's hands.
> >>
> >> ACTION ITEM
> >>
> >> 1. Call Congressman Goodling, Chariman of the House Committee on
> >Education
> >> and the Workforce at (202) 225-4527 and tell him you oppose HR 3429 and
> >any
> >> other effort which would ultimately give rise to a national ID system.
> >>
> >> 2. Call your Congressman (Capitol Hill Switchboard 202-225-3121) and make
> >> him understand that any attempt to support such an invasion of our
> >> liberties is unprincipled and dishonorable for one who was entrusted with
> >> the protection of such liberties. Urge him to oppose HR 3429.
> >>
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