The national ID was just the beginning, even if it hasn’t quite begun yet. Now officials in the Department of Homeland Security are talking about a global identification system.
Jim Williams, who is the director of the US-VISIT program which screens foreign tourists and others who visit the U.S., spoke Tuesday at the annual meeting of the National Business Travel Association, which represents corporate travel managers and travel service providers. He told them the story of how he was once held up at the airport because his name was similar to one on a terrorist watchlist, an increasingly common occurrence, especially among business travelers.
To solve the problem, though, Williams proposed a “global ID management system” which he said would make travel easier and reduce confusion at the airport while also making it harder for terrorists to travel.
“In order for them to do what they want to do, they have to travel,” Williams said.
He did not specify when, or how, the proposed global program would be implemented. — Government Executive
Such a global ID system would require the cooperation of several agencies within DHS, none of which were willing to say they had ever heard of the idea.
In order to work, the global ID as proposed would also have to be required of anyone traveling to, from or within the U.S.
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Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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Matt Parker
Apr 25, 2006
That’s not the only database/ID system that’s in the works.
Check out Database at Center of Immigration Reform
You can see my take on it here: Another Movtive for the Hype
DHS seems to have decided the threat is from within (meaning you and me). I also think they are trying to put together the types of programs that lead to perpetual funding so that they can’t be “re-organized” if there is a power shift in the federal government.
It’s scary no matter how you look at it.
Peace,
Matt
Michael Hampton
Apr 25, 2006
Matt, I’ve covered that particular database here before.
The one which is the topic of the post, however, is something completely different, and even more frightening if they manage to get it off the back of the napkin and into Congress.
Matt Parker
Apr 25, 2006
My Bad.
I told you we tended to pick similar topics. ;)
Matt
Anonymous
Apr 25, 2006
There’s nothing inherently wrong with standardization. Business does this all of the time. In order to streamline the immigration or travel process developing a consistent set of authentication and document standards is generally useful. If this official is thinking that the entire world will bow to the US demands for travel, he’s sorely overstating the power the US has at this time.
Without a global ID and global economy, how else will we get to the future world of Star Trek pacificity? ;)
Michael Hampton
Apr 25, 2006
We’ll never get there, because the global ID is truly the mark of the beast prophesied in the Book of Revelation, and the world is about to end. :)
As for streamlining travel, they’re already redoing passports in 27 countries to the specifications of the U.S. State Department. Countries that don’t comply will find that their citizens will no longer be able to enter the U.S. without a visa. And that’s a long, arduous process.
Oppressed by Bush
Apr 26, 2006
Sounds like a very ambitious proposal. But with the US Government at the helm and their predictably high level of arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence, a future project such as a “Global ID” would certainly require a sacrificial lamb of certain catastrophic failure–at least before they could get it to work right. Organized criminals who would love to get their hands on your shiny “Global ID” in the US or abroad, are certainly open to the idea.
I think the US Government is getting so complicated and expansive that even they themselves can no longer control their own agendas, let alone a “Global ID” system.
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forstand
Apr 26, 2006
Global ID?
The US has a national ID called your Social Security Number (SSN). In 1938 when the Social Security Agency (SSA) was created the SSN was NOT to be used as a national identification number. It was law. But only for 50 years.
I was in the military in 1968 when we changed from a military ID number to using our SSNs.
I suspect that we will either be tatooed with our SSN or have a smart chip implanted. If I have to wear a chip or tatoo then I want them to put it in/on my middle finger…
Jim
May 02, 2006
Just yet another attempt to categorize the human race through DNA identification. You will be safe big brother will watch over us……….