Your Papers, please! - Bush
gets his National ID ...
Well the National ID has passed The US House and the US Senate.
There has never been any question that
President Bush would sign the bill if it passed.
So Folks - we got us a National ID coming.
 The
votes in the House and Senate were overwhelming. We have not looked
up the vote in the senate yet, but reports have stated that was no
real opposition. If that is true it means that not a single
Republican or Democrat was willing to stand up against a National
ID. When something passes by these margins it usually means one of
two things:
It is not worth doing
The Constitution will suffer
It is absolutely
amazing that giving Homeland Security control of your driver's
license is being presented as a way to restrict immigration. By the
time an illegal immigrant is denied a driver's license he has
already crossed the border.
Illegal immigration control has to be implemented at the borders
NOT at your local driver's license station.
Just wait until
some government employee buried in the endless cubicles of the
growing federal bureaucracy makes a "typing error,"
is "mad" at you or you turn up on some
"special list." Presto, you will not
be able to drive, fly, vote, and who knows what else they will now
place under the control of the driver license gurus at Homeland
Security. If that happens to you or some member of your family - you
will have a much better understanding of what Our Founding Fathers
meant by "limited government."
Oh now - the so
called conservatives will start talking about how effective and
perfect
Homeland Security is. But in fact, Homeland Security is already
becoming just another government agency that will be used by
politicians for their own agendas. It is interesting that just
today, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge reported (See
article below) that some of the "high alerts" over the last couple
years were questionable:
Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he
often disagreed with administration officials who wanted to
elevate the threat level to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist
attack, but was overruled.
His comments at a Washington forum describe spirited
debates over terrorist intelligence and provide rare insight into
the inner workings of the nation's homeland security apparatus.
Ridge said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that his
agency was responsible for repeatedly raising the alert under a
color-coded system he unveiled in 2002.
"More often than not we were the least inclined to
raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with the
intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the
intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country on
(alert). ... There were times when some people were really
aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?'"
So now Homeland
Security is being given "absolute"
power over your forthcoming National ID. So in the future at some
point an Administration will want "special
changes" in the rules for your National ID and as we now
know - Homeland Security will do it even when they believe that it
is wrong.
It has been very
sad to see self proclaimed conservative organizations jump on the
Big Brother bandwagon, they would not recognize our Founding
Principles if they jumped up bit them on their arse! Wonder if they
have ever read the Constitution? If they have they certainly did not
understand it!
When the
President Bush signs this bill - the land of the free will have
taken a major step toward:
Your Papers, please!
Don't forget that you will pay extra taxes at
both State and federal level so that multitudes of new bureaucrats
can stop all of these illegal immigrants at your driver license
office and buy billions of dollars of new tracking software,
electronic scanners and computers!
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Ridge Reveals Clashes on Alerts
By Mimi Hall
USA Today
Tuesday 10 May 2005
Washington - The Bush
administration periodically put the USA on high alert for
terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom
Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising
the threat level, Ridge now says.
Ridge, who resigned Feb. 1, said Tuesday that he often
disagreed with administration officials who wanted to elevate
the threat level to orange, or "high" risk of terrorist
attack, but was overruled.
His comments at a Washington forum describe spirited
debates over terrorist intelligence and provide rare insight
into the inner workings of the nation's homeland security
apparatus.
Ridge said he wanted to "debunk the myth" that his
agency was responsible for repeatedly raising the alert under
a color-coded system he unveiled in 2002.
"More often than not we were the least inclined to
raise it," Ridge told reporters. "Sometimes we disagreed with
the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the
intelligence was good, you don't necessarily put the country
on (alert). ... There were times when some people were really
aggressive about raising it, and we said, 'For that?'"
Revising or scrapping the color-coded alert system is
under review by new Homeland Security secretary Michael
Chertoff. Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said
"improvements and adjustments" may be announced within the
next few months.
The threat level was last raised on a nationwide scale
in December 2003, to orange from yellow - or "elevated" risk -
where the alert level is now. In most cases, Ridge said
Homeland Security officials didn't want to raise the level
because they knew local governments and businesses would have
to spend money putting temporary security upgrades in place.
"You have to use that tool of communication very
sparingly," Ridge said at the forum, which was attended by
seven other former department leaders.
The level is raised if a majority on the President's
Homeland Security Advisory Council favors it and President
Bush concurs. Among those on the council with Ridge were
Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI chief Robert Mueller, CIA
director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Ridge and Ashcroft publicly clashed over how to
communicate threat information to the public. But Ridge has
never before discussed internal dissention over the threat
level.
The color-coded system was controversial from the
start. Polls showed the public found it confusing.
Source:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/051105X.shtml |
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