national id cards

This writer -- for a proudly left-wing publication -- makes a strong case for a secure national ID card, and anybody who has a passport or a passport card already has one. I would see a national ID as a tool that would make it harder for anyone else to steal my identity or to defraud me by...

This national ID that Schumer's proposing will require DNA data as well as other biometric data?

will this help stop illegal immigration? what would stop employers from simply not looking for these cards? I mean, if an employer really wants to use illegal labor, they will simply pay them with cash, not report them to anyone. No National ID card can stop that. Hell, I know someone...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100319/pl_nm/us_usa_immigration This is one of the ideas Phil Graham and Chucky Shumer have come up with, to keep illegals out of American jobs. This basically puts the burden on workers, to PROVE we have the right to work here. Shouldn't the burden be on the...

Anyone heard of this? Sounds like the REAL ID act all over again

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8127081.stm Now it is just a stupid and very expensive white elephant rather than being a civil liberty matter.

Please help me, David Cameron didn't really give a speech praising Ol Maggie and promising the mission of the Conservative's was to attack health and safety laws and human rights? Really? Please, he never did, did he?:covereyes

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9848732-7.html?tag=nefd.top ^ Wurr. (I also found this related picture: http://www.clevelandleader.com/files/realidcard.jpg ) I'm wondering what they're thinking, because uh. this doesn't seem at all safe.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but we are to have ID cards to stop terrorism? Last time I checked, the 4 bombers on july 7th were born and bred in Britian, the 21st July bombers were legal citizens living in London, the 15 guys arrested for the Ipod plane plot were born and bred Londoners...

Any word on whether this is still being pursued, and couldn't we just have it tattoo'd on our right hand or on our forehead? I wonder what the fundie X-tians will make of this, provided that they see the parallels. FAQ: How Real ID will affect you By Declan McCullagh What's all the fuss...

Folks, Conspiracy Theories can be very wild, far fetched, and some more down to earth and seem feasable. No matter which end of the spectrum, when you actually see one come true, it's makes ice flow through the veins. My Conspiracy Theory: The United States is slowly being turned into a...

http://news.com.com/House+approves+electronic+ID+cards/2100-1028_3-5571898.html Photo has to have a digital-photo Biometrics data Possibly (at least I heard this elsewhere) something with has like a DNA-tag thing on it. And what happens if you refuse to get such a card? Yes, I'm nervous...

(1) The government database is created by section 2173 of HR 10, a bill introduced by House Speaker Dennis Hastert. It would allow airline passengers to be screened against lists containing "all appropriate records." What would be "appropriate" would be within the exclusive discretion of the...

I see from the media http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3658489.stm that our "liberal" goverment is trying to introduce identity cards using the twin canards (Huey and Dewey ?) of protecting us from the perils af terrorism and stopping our overworked medical and social service systems from...

Well, the idea of a National ID card has been brought up by someone other than a right-wing warmonger who loves taking our rights, and the head of a tech company who'd love the revenues if his company were the one to manage it. Now, Senator Hillary Clinton has come out in favor of it as well...