gtrman66
03-09-2010, 01:23 PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954904575110124037066854.html?m od=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird
I don't like it one bit. Next step, embedded chips. Who needs conspiracy theories when you have stuff like this going on at capitol hill?
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.
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"It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people's privacy," said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "We're not only talking about fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in order to work. We're also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much every aspect of American life that requires identification."
I agree with the ACLU???? Call me G and slap my mamma.
A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand ... Mr. Schumer said employers would be able to buy a scanner to check the IDs for as much as $800. Small employers, he said, could take their applicants to a government office to like the Department of Motor Vehicles and have their hands scanned there.
Wow, and some people still don't believe there will be an antichrist? This stuff was foretold 2000 years ago and lucky us, we get to watch it fall into place.
I don't like it one bit. Next step, embedded chips. Who needs conspiracy theories when you have stuff like this going on at capitol hill?
Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.
....
"It is fundamentally a massive invasion of people's privacy," said Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "We're not only talking about fingerprinting every American, treating ordinary Americans like criminals in order to work. We're also talking about a card that would quickly spread from work to voting to travel to pretty much every aspect of American life that requires identification."
I agree with the ACLU???? Call me G and slap my mamma.
A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand ... Mr. Schumer said employers would be able to buy a scanner to check the IDs for as much as $800. Small employers, he said, could take their applicants to a government office to like the Department of Motor Vehicles and have their hands scanned there.
Wow, and some people still don't believe there will be an antichrist? This stuff was foretold 2000 years ago and lucky us, we get to watch it fall into place.