Britsh people write good (better?)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/loser-britains-identity-crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_card_(United_Kingdom)

Biometrics in the patriot act:
http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/biometric

This bill has sponsors in the senate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954904575110124037066854.html

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If you read those links you would know that biometrics aren't needed to prevent illegals working here in the USA.
So the government is not quite telling the truth.
However it will make it harder for hoods to steal checkbooks when their id card doesn't match their fingerprints. No doubt the fingerprint machine will have handcuffs built in.

And now we get a glimpse of Paul's nuttiness. A GPS chip so they can track everywhere you go? Not bloody likely...and not even technically possible today, unless your ID card is plugged in every night.

That said, I do object to a national ID card.

Moving this video to marinara's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*promote for all the news fans here, wallowing in the United Internets of Unconsciousness

Vote with the brain that's not damaged. It's marinara......he's good people

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by choggie.

I would comment, but I don't want to incite the ire of the liberal sift.

OK, This is old now - What happened at the Whitehouse??

"You either believe in freedom, or you don't." ~ Ron Paul

We already have Drivers Licenses (or State ID if you don't drive) and many other identification types, such as passports. And you need these to get a job. Like Paul says, the problem is failure to enforce the laws we already have in place. Although I don't subscribe to Paul's fearmongering in this case, I think a national ID card is a waste of time and will not solve anything.

For this meeting specifically, it was just a proposal and nothing serious is happening yet. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20000758-38.html)

That's why you turn me on, Silver City girl!

Maybe they'll integrate a bomb into the cards, so when the state decides you're an enemy they can just press a button and the card will explode and kill you! Or maybe there's a camera installed, which will record everything you see and say! They might even import the mind reading and altering devices used by every other county which has ID cards!

Paul came off completely loco there

Her look of shocked disbelief reminds me of what Tiger Woods' wife probably looked like when she first found out.

>> ^MrFisk:

Her look of shocked disbelief reminds me of what Tiger Woods' wife probably looked like when she first found out.


HAHAHAHAH!