Re: Internal Passports

[sameer <sameer@c2.net>]

> I've never once, in 29 years, been asked to show my little ragged card, and
> I only have it because I kept it stored with my passport. (No employer ever
> asked to see it; I haven't been employed for more than 10 years, so I can't
> say anything about recent policies in the wake of the "immigration crisis.")

	These days you can show a passport in leui of a social
security card. (I showed my"current employer" my SS card because I
kept forgetting to bring my poassport in to work. What an odd concept,
proving to my employer that I had a right to wrk in the
US... apparently the law is that you have a $10k fine if you *dont
have the paperwork* -- it doen't matter if all your employees are
legal.)

> 
> The current hysteria about "identification" probably does nothing to stop
> real terrorists...if there's one thing they can easily afford, it's
> realistic-looking ID cards, in any flavor and in any number.
> 
> What I think this means is a move toward a national ID card, replacing the
> confusing (to airlines, to government agents, etc.) mishmash of state
> driver's licenses, student ID cards, etc. After all, if someone doesn't
> drive, and has no passport, just what _is_ there "government issued"
> picture ID supposed to be, if not a national ID card? Or, as we like to
> say, an "internal passport."
> 
> Or as the Christian Right likes to say, "the mark of the Beast." Big
> Brother's SS number: 666-42-0000.
> 
> --Tim May
> 
> 
> 
> Just say "No" to "Big Brother Inside"
> We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
> ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
> Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
> tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
> W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
> Higher Power: 2^1398269     | black markets, collapse of governments.
> "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
> 
> 
> 
> 


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