[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You cannot >> prevent organizations, and especially government, from keeping track >> of you and much of what you do. > > Last time I checked the US government got its power from the people. > The people supply it with taxes and votes. I find the assertion that > citizens can't influence the government to be flawed.
And that's my point here. I too, concede we already have a national ID card in the form of a driver's license. However, that doesn't mean that a) our legislators should go ahead and begin overriding State's Rights by creating a redundant system which is actually more problematic than what is already in place, or b) that they should ruin an otherwise decent bill with hogwash like this. I find it more disturbing that this bill is essentially sailing through the Senate with neither a debate on the floor, nor discussion in any committee! This is just another example of our gov't running amok, and the law of unintended consequences resulting from this bill is likely to be far more painful than people realize. And just sitting there doing nothing, and saying, "well, we already have National ID cards, so why bother?" IMO, is nuts. Just because there is already a defacto standard doesn't mean we should further institutionalize and accept an actual standard which is worse than the default! That's like saying, "Well, Microsoft already has a moslty usable mail client, so we should just abandon the develop of (thunderbird, evolution, gnus, mutt, pine, elm, etc.)!". -- Seeya, Paul _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
