Bio-metric ID CARDS part of Bush's BORDER PLAN

[debbierlus]

Retinal scans, finger prints, & more...oh my...

Here is the article on a British Bio-metric ID card -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3556720.stm

Big brother.

[magellan]

1. Useless

What good are these things? Aside from making some biometric company rich and giving identity thieves one more avenue to rip us honest citizens off?

[C_U_L8R]

2. Exactly - follow the money

Halliburton's gotta be in there somewhere
(or one of it's ghost subsidiaries)

[rodeodance]

4. Chertoff had a big conference on them just a few months ago. I am sure

it is on the net somewhere.

[Vidar]

9. Or Bechtel--if they're done "patenting" rainwater.

[debbierlus]

8. Corporations can better target your spending patterns

And, political activists can be monitored...

[spinbaby]

3. There go his poll numbers

29% is going to look pretty darn good soon. If there's one thing DUers and Freepers can agree on, It's that WE DON'T WANT NO DAMN BIOMETRIC ID CARD!

[C_U_L8R]

5. And the fundies will freak out

they don't want no biometric number of the beast

[Skidmore]

7. They will welcome it as a sign that the coming of the Lord is near.

[tjwash]

6. You say that now, but all the shrub has to do is say...

..."9-11" and "terra" and the freeps will wet their little diapers and line up to get them implanted.

[Opusnone]

10. I've got nothing to hide, go ahead and ID me

As long as it prevents another 9-11/
(sarcasm ON)

[Igel]

11. I had to check IDs for I-9 compliance, and

forever sympathize with those that still do.

I was handed ID, I'd photocopy it, look at it, have no idea what to do with it, and file it away. Legal or illegal immigrant, I had no way of telling.

You want businesses to obey the law and not hire dirt-cheap immigrant labor? Take away their ready-made and all too compelling excuse: There's no way to verify that ID isn't fake, and the stuff that's out there is both too diverse to allow a non-expert to spot fraud, and too easily forged.

I used to be a "oh no, the number of the beast, I don't want secure ID because I think I'll be monitored" person; I've changed my mind.