Do we need internal passports?
Free Market News Network
by Jim Babka
03/14/06
We were promised the government would never use Social Security numbers as ID numbers. The government broke that promise. We were promised the income tax would always be small, but now it is large. We were promised the FBI and IRS would never be used by politicians to punish political enemies. Another broken promise. We were promised campaign finance laws would end political corruption. Instead, they have strangled political competition, and the corruption in Congress is worse than ever. Whatever the politicians promise you, the results are likely to be the opposite. We were promised that the groundwork laid for a national identification system by the REAL ID Act would protect us from terrorism. Believe that promise at your own risk. National identification systems -- internal passports -- are one of the hallmarks of police states...
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/64/4110/2006-03-14.asp?nid=4110&wid=64
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Jim Babka
03/14/06
We were promised the government would never use Social Security numbers as ID numbers. The government broke that promise. We were promised the income tax would always be small, but now it is large. We were promised the FBI and IRS would never be used by politicians to punish political enemies. Another broken promise. We were promised campaign finance laws would end political corruption. Instead, they have strangled political competition, and the corruption in Congress is worse than ever. Whatever the politicians promise you, the results are likely to be the opposite. We were promised that the groundwork laid for a national identification system by the REAL ID Act would protect us from terrorism. Believe that promise at your own risk. National identification systems -- internal passports -- are one of the hallmarks of police states...
http://www.fmnn.com/Analysis/64/4110/2006-03-14.asp?nid=4110&wid=64
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 15. Mär, 18:29
