On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:38:32 -0500 > Subject: Andy Rooney: Least of our worries > From: David M Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Matt, > > It's hard to know how to answer those who say it will be easy to > institute safeguards in such a way that a national ID won't > inaugurate a toboggan slide down the slippery slope into a police > state. Each exponent of the national ID is farther down the slope Let's face it, we're already in a police state; if you doubt this, you haven't taken a commercial air plane flight recently. Your national ID is your SSN and/or driver's license. If they need your records they can get them easily. I very much doubt most any judge is anything but unwilling to sign any search order these days. You can bet the facial recognition software is in use. You can bet that systems such as EzPass (auto toll payment via transponders) are being used to track who goes where, and so on. The real question is how to reclaim our rights.
