Bush Contemplates National Id Card For All Citizens

To: "Health Freedom, Codex Issues
Subject: BUSH CONTEMPLATES NATIONAL ID CARD FOR ALL CITIZENS + STRANGE DOINGS IN FLORIDA RE MARTIAL LAW TIMING....
From: John Hammell jham@iahf.com
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 01:04:51 -0400

IAHF List: See the Drudge Report below my comments re the huge push for a National ID Card with Biometric Identifiers... WHAT TO DO- TODAY 9/25 The House Judiciary Committee intends to mark up a bill that will GUT the 4th Amendment which protects us from unreasonable search and seizure, they don't even plan on holding HEARINGS. You MUST call Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, Chair of the Committee, to demand HEARINGS on the supposed "Anti Terrorism" Bill. email him at Sensen09@mail.house.gov Call him and your own Congressman 202-225-3121

STRANGE TIMING ON DECLARATION OF MARTIAL LAW IN FLORIDA ...(4 DAYS _PRIOR _TO WTC ATTACK !!! On September 7, 4 days before the attack on the WTC & Pentagon, Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida issued an executive order (01-261) declaring martial law in Florida. See
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html

This E.O. put the National Guard in charge of all police functions in the state, fully 4 days before the WTC/Pentagon attack occurred... then, on September 11th, Jeb Bush issued ANOTHER E.O. declaring a state of emergency (even BEFORE New York or Virginia issued their state E.O.s)
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-262-09-11-01.html

On September 11th, President George Bush, was reading a story about GOATS to school children in Sarasota Florida when news of the disaster was told to him. He did not stop reading to the kids. (Perhaps the story should have been about SHEEP) He did not make a public statement until a HALF HOUR LATER according to an article in the Associated Press. He turned "somber" according to the AP report, as well as a report in the Sarasota Herald Tribune. See http://209.123.142.199/lawgiver/911.asp Wouldn't it have been appropriate for him to have STOPPED reading the goat story IMMEDIATELY, to EXCUSE HIMSELF in order to get FULLY BRIEFED so as to make a public statement more QUICKLY? Shouldn't he have been more concerned, sorrowful?

(Perhaps he knew in advance of the attack and allowed it to happen, seems VERY likely to me.) What is the definition of the word "somber"? shadowy, obscure, dark, unreal, without light, and suspicious See the Drudge Report Below We're being set up like bowling pins for a National ID Card with biometric identifiers, then for an injectable microchip... see http://www.iahf.com Anti Chip section. See http://www.williamcooper.com See FAKE TERROR - THE ROAD TO DICTATORSHIP at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/index.html

somber / sombre.* French sombre ; Spanish sombra , shade, prob. from LL.
subumbrare to put in the shade;
Latin sub under + umbra shade. See Umbrage.
umbrage.* French ombrage , shade, suspicion, umbrage. Latin umbraticus ,
belonging to shade, French umbra,
a shade. Cf. Umber, Umbratic. 1. Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that
which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage. 2. Shadowy resemblance; shadow. Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.
darkness.** Absence of light; black hole; dark star; dark matter, cold dark
matter. Occultation, adumbration,
obumbration; sunless, lightless; dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as
Erebus[Lat]. somber, dusky; unilluminated...

http://www.drudgereport.com/id.htm
BUSH CONTEMPLATES NATIONAL ID CARD FOR ALL CITIZENS

**Exclusive**

A highly controversial option has emerged for use in fighting terrorism in the United States: A national ID card which would be issued to every citizen.

A proposal for the creation of a national ID card was presented to President Bush in recent days, top government sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

The ID card plan was included in a classified briefing outlining steps the nation can take to limit exposure to terror attacks.

Bush briefly discussed the ID card option with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to insiders.

"I can tell you this, the president is very reluctant [to issue a national ID card]," a top White House source said on Sunday. "But we must look at all options."

Just as House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt [D-MO] says Congress should quickly move to open debate on security measures such as a national ID card.

"We are in a new world," Gephardt said. "This event will change the balance between freedom and security."

SAFETY FROM A CHIP

ORACLE Chairman and CEO Larry Ellison this weekend called for the United States to create a national identification system -- and offering to donate the software to make it possible -- free-of-charge.

"We need a national ID card with our photograph and thumbprint digitized and embedded in the ID card," Ellison said in an interview Friday night on the evening news of KPIX-TV in San Francisco.

Blair has tentatively approved identity cards which will be introduced for the first time in Britain.

The universal identity card leads major papers in London on Monday:

'ID CARDS FOR ALL' fronts the TIMES.

'IDENTITY CARDS ON THE WAY IN FIGHT ON TERROR' headlines the MAIL.

'WE'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE ID CARDS' splashes the SUN.

Blair has opted for a voluntary scheme in issuing the card, rejecting a compulsory "on demand" card because of connotations with Nazi Germany, where lack of proper identity cards could result in instant arrest, according to reports.

However, it will be virtually impossible for anyone to live a normal life without the new ID card in England - possession of a valid card will be necessary for boarding an aircraft, buying gas, opening a bank account, starting a job or claiming government benefits.

UK. Home Secretary David Blunkett on Sunday questioned the idea of a "voluntary card".

"It would not be a great deal of help" in the fight against terrorism, Blunkett said on BBC1's On the Record.

Blunkett stressed the need to balance the fight against terrorism with the freedoms of a liberal society.

But he said that his "instincts" were that beating terror must take priority and that politicians' ability to act must not be hamstrung by an excessively legalistic approach to human rights.

New laws are expected to be rushed through the U.K.'s Parliament in coming weeks to allow for the legality of a mandatory ID card.

In a nationwide poll released Sunday, a stunning 85% of Brits would welcome a national ID card system in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the United States, with an overwhelming majority calling for the cards to be packed with information to clearly identify the holder: These include photograph (97%), date of birth (96%) eye color (92%), a finger print (85%), DNA details (75%), criminal records (74%) and religion (67%).

Stateside, U.S. Rep. George Gekas [R-PA], chairman of the House immigration subcommittee, told reporters last week that Congress could no longer reject out of hand a national ID card system for citizens.

In a survey released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, seven of 10 Americans favored a requirement that citizens carry a national identity card at all times. The proposal had particularly strong support from women.

ORACLE's Ellison said in the electronic age, little privacy is left anyway.

"Well, this privacy you're concerned about is largely an illusion,'' he told PIX's anchorman Hank Plante. "All you have to give up is your illusions, not any of your privacy. Right now, you can go onto the Internet and get a credit report about your neighbor and find out where your neighbor works, how much they earn and if they had a late mortgage payment and tons of other information."

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