SurREAL ID: New licenses may mean loss of privacy
05/20/05
George Orwell's totalitarian 'Big Brother' is exactly the image to which pundits and critics compare the Real ID Act. Robert Dreyfuss, contributing editor to The Nation and Mother Jones, calls it 'a step toward a chilling, privacy-violating national ID card system that could one day have Americans being asked, Nazi-style, to 'show us your papers' wherever they go.' That's not so far-fetched, says Jeff Weaver, chief of staff for Rep. Bernie Sanders, one of only 58 House members to turn thumbs down on the measure. 'There is a real concern on a lot of people's part that this is the first step toward a national ID card,' said Weaver. 'To the extent that you create a federally mandated standardized driver's license process, you are certainly moving in that direction...
http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/0105/SurrealID.shtml
from Vermont Guardian
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
George Orwell's totalitarian 'Big Brother' is exactly the image to which pundits and critics compare the Real ID Act. Robert Dreyfuss, contributing editor to The Nation and Mother Jones, calls it 'a step toward a chilling, privacy-violating national ID card system that could one day have Americans being asked, Nazi-style, to 'show us your papers' wherever they go.' That's not so far-fetched, says Jeff Weaver, chief of staff for Rep. Bernie Sanders, one of only 58 House members to turn thumbs down on the measure. 'There is a real concern on a lot of people's part that this is the first step toward a national ID card,' said Weaver. 'To the extent that you create a federally mandated standardized driver's license process, you are certainly moving in that direction...
http://www.vermontguardian.com/local/0105/SurrealID.shtml
from Vermont Guardian
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Mai, 10:07
