Comments on: DHS official proposes global ID

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 02 May 2006 12:27:34 +0000

Just yet another attempt to categorize the human race through DNA identification. You will be safe big brother will watch over us……….

By: forstand

forstand — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:07:20 +0000

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…

By: Oppressed by Bush

Oppressed by Bush — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:18:10 +0000

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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By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:08:37 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:41:09 +0000

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?

By: Matt Parker

Matt Parker — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:02:33 +0000

My Bad.

I told you we tended to pick similar topics.

Matt

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:54:27 +0000

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.

By: Matt Parker

Matt Parker — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:36:03 +0000

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