Matt Drudge writes: http://www.drudgereport.com/id.htm >A proposal for the creation of a national ID card was presented to >President Bush in recent days, top government sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT. http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ellsn092301.htm >``We need a national ID card with our photograph and thumbprint digitized >and embedded in the ID card,'' Ellison said in an interview Friday night >on the evening news of KPIX-TV in San Francisco. >``We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport >and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it in a >reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that this is >Larry Ellison,'' he said. [...] >``We're quite willing to provide the software for this absolutely free,'' >he said. ---- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:49:33 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Declan McCullagh) From: David Theroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ellison and ID cards Dear Declan, According to Drudge, Larry Ellison is now offering to donate the technology to create a national ID card. What else would we expect from a firm that was created by the CIA: http://beta.kpix.com/news/scripts/fri5pm.htm#77tz:_Ellison Best regards, David -- David J. Theroux Founder and President The Independent Institute 100 Swan Way Oakland, CA 94621-1428 510-632-1366 Phone 510-568-6040 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.independent.org ---- Says one person posting on cypherpunks: >As the D.C. types would say, "that has no traction." > >Interesting that the cyberliberties crowd was so eager to launch a >"Boycott Adobe" campaign because of their sin that they attempted to >defend their property rights, but no one is launching a "Boycott Oracle" >campaign over Larry Ellison's fascist support for mandatory >citiizen-unit ID cards. > >As an Oracle investor for many years, I am ashamed that the President >and CEO of a company I have long-owned is adopting the fascist and >statist policies reminiscent of Nazi Germany. > >Ellison wishes Oracle to play the role of Krupp. "Ve vill volunteer our >software, ja, in ze struggle." > >I would say he needs <censored>, and soon, but that might get me in >trouble with the Securitat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
