“Your
Papers Please”
US
adopts National ID: Homeland Security Now In charge of Regulations for all US
States Drivers Licenses and Birth Certificates
By: Jonathan Wheeler
In a chilling act more reminiscent of the now
defunct
The massive US Intelligence Reform Bill
weighed in at over 3,000 pages and though unread by individual Members of
either the House or Senate nevertheless passed all of the legislative hurdles
needed in order to become law.
President Bush lobbied hard for these
provisions, only objecting when Senator Sensenbrenner attempted to require
these same provisions for illegal aliens but which the President opposed. This provision was dropped from the final
bill.
Beginning in 2005, the Department of Homeland
Security will issue new uniformity regulations to the States requiring that all
Drivers Licenses and Birth Certificates meet minimal Federal Standards with
regard to
Added to currently existing Federal Laws and
Supreme Court rulings American citizens when born will be issued a Social
Security Number that will be included on their Birth Certificates, along with
DNA biometric markers. All birth
certificates will also be registered in a Federal Government database
maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. No child will be allowed enrollment to
schools or be entitled to either State of
Drivers Licenses will also contain DNA
biometric markers and include the holders Social Security Number and be
required for receiving and applying for all State and Federal benefits
programs. Previous Supreme Court rulings
have also upheld State and Federal Law Enforcement authorities right to request
Identification from any American citizen, for any reason and at any time as not
being violations of their, the citizens, constitutionally protected rights.
Major Banks
and credit card companies have applauded the adoption of a National ID system
as being important to counter fraud and increasing instances of identity theft.
National ID cards with biometric markers will eliminate them from having to
issue Credit and Debit cards, which for the first time in
Also included in this bill is a law to
require The Department of Homeland Security to establish a separate ID system
for citizens to use prior to boarding airplanes, and which is eerily
reminiscent of the Soviet and Nazi regimes dreaded Internal Passport.
Never before in our history have the words of
Benjamin Franklin been so correct when he stated: "people willing to trade their freedom for temporary
security deserve neither and will lose both".
Today, December 9, 2004 will be one of those moments in time that
future historians will look back on and pin point as being the day that the
United States of American, and as it was founded by its forefathers, ceased to exist.