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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Media ByPass article on National ID (fwd)
>From: Tom Fosson <tfosson@amug.org>
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>[Check out the Media ByPass website! It's fantastic! -TF]
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>>Subject: Cyndee Parker -- Media ByPass article on National ID
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>>Greetings:
>>This is Cyndee Parker's (of Georgia REPEAL Fingerprint Bill fame) article
>>as it appears in April '97 Media ByPass magazine. The URL is
>>http://www.4bypass.com/ Click on the NEW icon. This is a very
>>interesting page to bookmark if you don't already have it. Let's forward
>>this article ALL OVER to everyone we can. We all know this issue will be
>>back with the fury of HUGO when the legislature reconvenes. Everyone needs
>>to be fully educated on what this legislation really is about.
>>"Tamper-proof Drivers Licenses" - "Protection of your Identity" -"Prevent
>>Fraud" -is what they proponents want you to believe as that sounds so soft
>>and warm and fuzzy and GOOD for you. HAH! Don't believe it folks, it is
>>how to number and control everyone of us. We can participate in the
>>CAREERS ACT without Government legislating it. <grin>. I don't think that
>>is what they had in mind though, our educating ourselves as to what
>>government is doing to us.
>>
>>Jackie Juntti
>>...............from Media ByPass April 1997.......
>>
>>National ID Card Is Now Federal Law and Georgia Wants To Help Lead the Way
>>
>>
>>By: Cyndee Parker
>>
>>In September of 1996, President Clinton signed into law, the Illegal
>>Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Buried at
>>approximately page 650 of the new national Defense Bill, also known as
>>Public Law 104-208, Part B, Title IV, the American public was given a
>>national ID card. With no fanfare, no publicity and no scrutiny, the bill
>>easily avoided the watchful eyes of even its most aggressive opponents.
>>
>>The Coalition to Repeal the Fingerprints Law, a Georgia grassroots movement
>>trying to rid the state of the new requirement to give digital fingerprints
>>in order to obtain a state ID or driver's license, recently found the
>>national ID tie. The group found that the national law not only mandates a
>>national ID card, but found how it is to be used.
>>
>>In Section 401-403, pilot programs have been initiated by the U.S. Attorney
>>General, one of which is the "Machine Readable Document Pilot Program". In
>>this particular program, employers would have to "procure" a document
>>reader linked to the federal government's Social Security Administration in
>>order to have the potential employee swipe their new driver's
>>license/national ID card through the reader. Then, it would be up to the
>>federal government to either approve or disapprove the applicant for
>>employment.
>>
>>Section 326 and 327 provide $5,000,000 per year grants to each state
>>participating in any of the three pilot programs. The money has been
>>allocated through the Criminal Alien Tracking Center and is called the
>>Criminal Alien Identification System. The "automated identification
>>system", which is to be used by "Federal, State, and local law enforcement"
>>and will "provide for recording of fingerprints of aliens previously
>>arrested and removed". The grants run from "fiscal years 1997 through 2001".
>>
>>Additionally, Section 656 of the new law states that "after October 1,
>>2000, Federal agencies may only accept as proof of identity driver's
>>licenses that conform to standards developed by the Secretary of the
>>Treasury", after consultation with state motor vehicle officials and the
>>American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. The AAMVA sees
>>digital fingerprinting as the best way to go in driver's license
identifiers.
>>
>>Fearing that all Americans were about to be digitally tattooed under the
>>government's paranoiac guise of catching everything from aliens to dead
>>beat dads, Congressman Dick Armey (R-TX) was one of the first to voice his
>>opinion. Armey called the move, "an abomination and wholly at odds with the
>>American tradition of individual freedom". Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI)
>>joined Armey in signing a letter denouncing the computer registry and
>>tracking system and Jack Kemp announced in the New York Times that this
>>was, "an anti-privacy, anti-business and anti-American approach" and that
>>"it was no way to run immigration policy". Of course, all this was said
>>before the bills were snuck through in the last defense bill. There is a
>>possibility at this time, they don't even know the proposed legislation
>>became law.
>>
>>For the first time in American history and reminiscent of Communist
>>countries, our government would have the ability to grant approval before a
>>private company enters into private employment contracts with private
>>citizens. Because of the nature of the employment system alone, personal
>>information would be accessible to local agencies and anyone who even
>>claims to be an employer. The government would have comprehensive files of
>>all American citizen's names, dates of birth, place of birth, mother's
>>maiden names, Social Security numbers, gender, race, driving records, child
>>support payments, divorce status, hair color, eye color, height, weight,
>>and anything else they may dream up in the future.
>>
>>On May 10, 1995, a hearing was held by the Senate Subcommittee on
>>Immigration entitled, "Verification of Applicant Identity for the Purposes
>>of Employment and Public Assistance". The hearing was chaired by Senator
>>Alan Simpson (R-WY) and attended by Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA), Dianne
>>Feinstein (D-CA), and John Kyl (R-AZ). Robert Razor of the Secret Service
>>Financial Crimes Division gave the Subcommittee an explanation of the
>>emerging biometric technological role in personal identification. He said,
>>"The use of biometrics is the means by which an individual may be
>>conclusively identified. There are two types of biometric identifiers:
>>physical and behavioral characteristics. Physiological biometrics include
>>facial features, hand geometry, retinal and iris patterns, DNA, and
>>fingerprints. Behavioral characteristics include voice characteristics and
>>signature analysis."
>>
>>Now the people of America not only must have digital tattoos on their
>>driver's licenses, we must also give information to the government when
>>boarding commercial aircraft, called personality profiles, along with a
>>government ID card. Of course, this guise is in order to catch some would
>>be terrorist. Dianne Feinstein, author of the national ID law, explained in
>>a Capitol Hill magazine that it was her intention to see Congress
>>immediately implement a national identity system where every American is
>>required to carry a card with a "magnetic strip on it which the bearer's
>>unique voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally encoded." She
>>also stated that "fifteen years ago, they would have torn the building
>>down". We probably would have if we had known about it. I hope she doesn't
>>mind that Georgia left out the magnetic strip and replaced it with two
>>dimensional bar-coding.
>>
>>During closing remarks of the May 10 Subcommittee meeting, Senator Alan
>>Simpson stated, "There is much to do here, but I was just saying to Ted
>>[Kennedy] before he left, a hearing like this fifteen years ago, would have
>>torn the building down. And here we are today, just a bunch of us, kind of
>>sitting around and no media, no nothing. This is fine with me. I get tired
>>of them on this issue."
>>
>>Based on other federal mandates, the Associated Press reported in the
>>Wichita Eagle on March 6, 1997 that the "Federal government mandates a
>>registry of new employees: State lawmakers balk at bill required by
>>Congress to ease child support collection. A bill designed to increase
>>state collection of child support payments was described as a "Big Brother"
>>move and drew little support from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee
>>on Wednesday. But the federal government says the legislature must pass it
>>or the state could lose as much as $29 million in federal funds." The bill
>>referred to requires the state to set up a "new hires directory" that would
>>require all employers to report to the state information about every newly
>>hired employee. The directory would be made available to the Department of
>>Social and Rehabilitation Services for child support collections. In the
>>article, they reported that "the date in Kansas and other states, although
>>confidential, would be available to a national directory of new hires."
>>They further reported that all people would be listed, regardless of age
>>and even those that have no child support obligation.
>>
>>The Senate Judiciary Committee in Kansas was quick to offer comments
>>condemning the federal mandate. Senator Mike Harris from Wichita, the
>>committee chairman said, "This is the most potentially significant,
>>far-reaching piece of legislation that has come through this committee".
>>The legislators from both parties referred to "Big Brother" and George
>>Orwell's novel, "1984". Kansas State Senator Paul Feleciano of Wichita
>>said, "If ever we give witness to Big Brother watching over us, this is the
>>beginning of it". Sen. Ed Pugh of Wamego had sharper words for the bill. He
>>said, "I don't see how it can be drafted by someone in a free society. It's
>>a perfect example of the ends justifying the means." These Kansas lawmakers
>>are not referring to the Immigration Act, but to another new federal law,
>>the Welfare Reform Act. If Kansas refuses to have a state bill in place
>>later this year, they will loose as much as $29 million in federal funds
>>for child support collection. Senator Pugh said it is a "wholesale assault
>>on Constitutional rights".
>>
>>The new driver's license requirement mandating fingerprints for Georgia
>>driver's and those wanting ID cards passed the state legislature with
>>virtually no public or media attention in April of 1996. The first known
>>announcement was on the local Atlanta news announcing an October 1996 date
>>to begin fingerprinting. Cyndee Parker, now a coordinator for the Coalition
>>to Repeal the Fingerprint Law in Georgia began the campaign to repeal the
>>egregious law.
>>
>>Many Georgia lawmakers joined in on the repeal efforts. Representatives
>>Mitchell Kaye, Brian Joyce, Vernon Jones and Senator Pam Glanton were the
>>first to help lead the repeal efforts in the General Assembly of Georgia.
>>Eight bills were drawn by the House and one by the Senate. Mitchell Kaye
>>refers to the law as, "tracking us like a can of dog food".
>>
>>Due to the Governor's and House Speaker's manipulations, all eight House
>>bills were held hostage by the House Motor Vehicle's Committee and were
>>never voted on. The Senate overwhelmingly passed a Senate Bill, only to
>>find it placed as hostage, along with the other bills in Motor Vehicles. On
>>the last night of the Georgia Session, Senator Glanton amended another
>>driver's license related bill and it also was never voted on by the House
>>due to the same manipulations, illegal rule changes and an incredible
>>amount of confusion on the House Floor. Governor Miller stated numerous
>>times during the year that he would veto any repeal effort. House Speaker
>>Tom Murphy was happy to see that the Governor did not have to get out his
>>veto pen.
>>
>>The Coalition will now take their story around the state using town hall
>>meetings. The repeal effort has made very strange political bedfellows,
>>with such groups as the ACLU, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the
>>Libertarian Party of Georgia, the Christian Coalition, American's for
>>Lawful Government, ABATE a motorcycle rider's education group, and many
>>other diverse groups, totaling about 20 in all and growing rapidly. The
>>Coalition believes that once Georgian's know about the federal
>>implications, the groundswell will grow so large that the Governor will
>>have no choice but rid the state of the obviously federally mandated bill.
>>The group says that at least the State of Washington was honest with its
>>citizens when proposing the same fingerprinting legislation. Right in
>>Section 1 of the Washington bill, they state this is a national ID card in
>>conformity with federal mandates.
>>
>>Georgia just slipped theirs through unnoticed by lawmakers and the public,
>>the same way the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility
>>Act was. The group also had to notify their United States Congressional
>>Representatives and Senators, as they were unaware of the facts as well.
>>Both State and Federal Representatives and Senators had absolutely no
>>knowledge they had passed the new laws until the Coalition brought it to
>>their attention.
>>
>>The Coaltion to Repeal the Fingerprints Law can be reached at 404-250-8105
>>or visit their web site at www.mcwebs.com/repeal/
>>
>>NOTICE: Copyrighted article. Permission to place in newspapers, re-send,
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>>or additions. This notice must accompany all re-posting unless express
>>permission is given by the author.*** It is strongly suggested that this be
>>sent to legislators in all states to warn them of impending legislation on
>>their state levels.
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