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:
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>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
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>> Sent from a friend of mine:
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>> >From the American Policy Center
>> Tom DeWeese, President
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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 light for creating a National ID system was repealed through the courageous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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