.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: Weldon Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Liberty Alert - Latinos are the target but we are all at risk. Date: Sunday, May 07, 2000 12:57 AM Liberty Alert - Latinos are the target but we are all at risk. Editor's Note: Professor Joseph Olson is a member of the NRA board of director and a long time activist in support of our rights. I believe you should listen to him. If you have been reading Second Amendment News posts you know the confiscation of firearms follows registration. You also know that the federal government has been keeping the records of gun purchases illegally. However the government has a problem. We are a mobile society. The average American moves once every 5 years. Having the list of who has the guns is no good unless you can find the gun owners. The internal passport idea in the proposed law will be abused by you government to this end. Weldon Clark editor. Please repost. By Professor Joseph Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fellow gun owners, we all oppose gun registration and gun owner licensing. How long do you think it will that the anti's to recognize that the National ID card IS registration of people and if so, there is no good reason not to register mere objects. Do you think the FBI's NICS system data base and this one won't be linked (just a "test" of anti-terrorist capabilities, don't you know). Remember that everyone is someone's hated minority group. This is a civil liberty crisis for everyone. But we are organized, we'll be effective. Call the Congress, call the media, call the NRA - tell them all to STOP this bill. It is time to call your Senators and your Representative, if you don't want to be stopped on the street and hear the words "Your papers, please." I've heard it in foreign countries by machine gun toting bands of "police" and it is no fun. In fact, it always makes me proud that it doesn't happen in America (at least not to white college professors). Or will we start??? The Conference Committee deliberating on the terms of the Department of Transportation's Appropriations bill will also determine whether Big Brother in Washington, D.C. continues to mandate a national ID card to the states. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is the chief proponent of the national ID card system (to go into effect October 2000); although he denies what he is doing would be a national ID card. What do you think of a driver's license that has your social security number and fingerprints (and who knows what else) encoded in it with your picture on it as well? Without this "non ID card" federal law would prohibit you from boarding a plane, opening a bank account, going to a doctor, be eligible for Medicare, enter a school-- just things like that. Nothing important, right Rep. Smith? Will he promise us that the FBI databases of persons granted clearances (such as Bar applicants, schoolteachers, and other lawful citizens) not be included in the encryption on the card? And what do we do if the FBI does it anyway? After all, the FBI is the same group that lied about its activities in Waco and violated the privacy of over 1000 national public figures by keeping files on them (spying) and then turned the files over to the White House-- the Filegate scandal. Rep. Frank Wolf is on the Conference Committee that must decide before September 30 whether to keep the Senate language repealing this monstrous invasion of your privacy. Wolf has said that he supports repeal of the national ID card mandate, but Wolf sits on a subcommittee of the Appropriations committee headed up by Rep. Smith himself. Wolf is under a lot of pressure from Smith, and may be weakening. Wolf needs a great deal of bucking up. For those of you living in the 10th District of Virginia, please call or fax Rep. Wolf's office to express your support of repeal of the national ID card that Senator Shelby embedded in the Senate version of the Appropriations bill. Wolf's voice # is 202-225-5136. His fax # is 202-225-0437. "Why Does the ACLU Oppose a National I.D. Card System?" The ACLU has vigorously opposed the creation of a national employee I.D. number and/or card. It is a misplaced, superficial "quick fix" that poses serious threats to our civil liberties and civil rights. [Go and see Schindler's List or any WWII movie if you need a reminder of the threat to your liberty from an omniscient, omnipotent government.] BACKGROUND Over the past decade various proposals for a tamper-proof national identifier have cropped up repeatedly, usually in the context of immigration policy. The notion of using some form of national identification card has also surfaced in discussions of gun control and health care reform. Proponents suggest that a tamper-proof worker identification card would solve the problem of fraudulent work authorization documents. Some claim an I.D. card would deter illegal immigration and halt job discrimination resulting from the passage of the employer sanctions section of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. This September, the Commission on Immigration Reform, headed by former congresswoman Barbara Jordan, made recommendations to Congress on the U.S. immigration system. One of the commission's proposals was a universal national employee number, which would be linked to a national database. The number would be required of all citizens and residents. IN BRIEF This is an impractical and ineffective proposal that would only threaten our right to privacy and foster new forms of discrimination. A national I.D. card would be no more reliable than the documents a person would show to obtain it and the cost to the American taxpayers just to issue the cards would be at least $2.5 billion, according to the Social Security Administration. The continuing recession in California has fueled the wide spread tendency for politicians to blame immigrants for our economic woes. The call for a national I.D. card is just another example of trying to sell a "quick fix" for much more complex social and economic problems. Regardless of one's views on immigration, a national identity card, with all its dangers, is not the answer. Just as the original restrictions on the use of the Social Security card have been all but eliminated, limits on a national I.D. number or card would be ignored or legislated away. There would be an irresistible temptation to use the data for purposes for which it was never intended, including government surveillance. Former Senator Alan Cranston has described the national I.D. card as "a primary tool of totalitarian governments to restrict the freedom of their citizens." ACLU POLICY Editor's Note I usually do not agree with this organization but this is the exception. "The ACLU .... opposes the use of Social Security cards and other governmentally issued documents as a condition of employment. Such a practice, in effect, creates an `employment passport,' which results in a universal identifier of all persons in the United States." -- Policy #329 ARGUMENTS, FACTS, QUOTES The ACLU does not object to efforts to make current documents more fraud or tamper-resistant as long as individual privacy is protected. The ACLU has, however, consistently opposed proposals that would establish a single document that serves as the sole form of employment identification for citizens and residents. Many Americans have an almost visceral reaction against the use -- and abuse -- of technology for intrusive purposes. A national I.D. card poses a grave threat to the civil liberties of all by creating a powerful tool for abuse of privacy rights. The system could not work without a national governmental database of every person in the U.S., with identifying information subject to continual updating. The linkage of government databases with corporate databases increases the likelihood that intimate personal information -- credit histories, spending habits, unlisted telephone numbers, voting, medical and employment histories -- could be easily accessed without a person's knowledge. A national I.D. card would essentially serve as an internal passport. It would create an easy new tool for government surveillance and could be used to target critics of the government, as has happened periodically throughout our nation's history. While the Social Security Act originally contained strict prohibitions against use of the Social Security card for unrelated purposes, over the past 50 years those prohibitions have been ignored or legislated into oblivion and restrictions on a national I.D. card would follow the same path. In his seminal book, Databanks in a Free Society, author Alan Westin wrote that "many dissenting and minority groups in [American] society ... view the establishment of such an identifier ... as a giant step toward tightening government control over the citizen for repressive purposes." The General Accounting Office (GAO) concluded in 1990 that employer sanctions had resulted in widespread employment discrimination against U.S. citizens and legal residents, with almost 20 percent of employers found to be engaging in such practices. Rather than eliminating discrimination, a national I.D. card would foster new forms of discrimination and harassment of anyone perceived as looking or sounding "foreign." Latinos, Asians, Caribbeans and other minorities would be the likely targets of status and identity checks from police, banks, merchants, landlords and others. Latino U.S. citizens are already subjected to random searches at border checkpoints. Failure to carry a national I.D. card would likely be viewed as a reason for search, detention or arrest of minorities. The stigma and humiliation of constantly proving lawful status is unacceptable. *************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson Hamline University School of Law tel. (651) 523-2142 St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-1284 fax. 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