[Mb-hair] I sure hope this is an Urban Legend or a Hoax!

[SharmagneS at aol.com]

December 9, 2004
“Your Papers Please”

US adopts National ID: Homeland Security Now In charge of Regulations for all 
US States Drivers Licenses and Birth Certificates

By: Jonathan Wheeler

In a chilling act more reminiscent of the now defunct Soviet Union or the 
Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler, the United States Congress passed legislation 
yesterday that requires the States to surrender their regulatory rights over driver’
s licenses and birth certificates to The Department of Homeland Security.

The massive US Intelligence Reform Bill weighed in at over 3,000 pages and 
though unread by individual Members of either the House or Senate nevertheless 
passed all of the legislative hurdles needed in order to become law.

President Bush lobbied hard for these provisions, only objecting when Senator 
Sensenbrenner attempted to require these same provisions for illegal aliens 
but which the President opposed.  This provision was dropped from the final 
bill.

Beginning in 2005, the Department of Homeland Security will issue new 
uniformity regulations to the States requiring that all Drivers Licenses and Birth 
Certificates meet minimal Federal Standards with regard to US citizen 
information, including biometric security provisions.

Added to currently existing Federal Laws and Supreme Court rulings American 
citizens when born will be issued a Social Security Number that will be 
included on their Birth Certificates, along with DNA biometric markers.  All birth 
certificates will also be registered in a Federal Government database maintained 
by the Department of Homeland Security.  No child will be allowed enrollment 
to schools or be entitled to either State of Federal Government benefits 
programs without first presenting a certified Homeland Security registered Birth 
Certificate.

Drivers Licenses will also contain DNA biometric markers and include the 
holders Social Security Number and be required for receiving and applying for all 
State and Federal benefits programs.  Previous Supreme Court rulings have also 
upheld State and Federal Law Enforcement authorities right to request 
Identification from any American citizen, for any reason and at any time as not being 
violations of their, the citizens, constitutionally protected rights.

Major Banks and credit card companies have applauded the adoption of a 
National ID system as being important to counter fraud and increasing instances of 
identity theft. National ID cards with biometric markers will eliminate them 
from having to issue Credit and Debit cards, which for the first time in US 
history have surpassed the usage of checks and cash.  Utilizing The Department of 
Homeland Securities centralized federal database, Banks and credit card 
companies will only require the presentation of a citizens Driver’s License to make 
purchases as all of the persons financial information, including credit and 
cash balances, will already be known in ‘real time’.   (The combining of 
Homeland Security and Banking databases on citizen’s balances and purchases, along 
with their past and present purchasing information, has been allowed under 
previous Federal Laws including the Patriot Act.)

Also included in this bill is a law to require The Department of Homeland 
Security to establish a separate ID system for citizens to use prior to boarding 
airplanes, and which is eerily reminiscent of the Soviet and Nazi regimes 
dreaded Internal Passport.     

Never before in our history have the words of Benjamin Franklin been so 
correct when he stated: "people willing to trade their freedom for temporary 
security deserve neither and will lose both".

Today, December 9, 2004 will be one of those moments in time that future 
historians will look back on and pin point as being the day that the United States 
of American, and as it was founded by its forefathers, ceased to exist.

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