is inescapably yours.
Modern technology means they don't have to put the number on you, they can
read it off of you by minutely examining your body.
And: it is the NSA driving the fingerprint-rollout of the national ID card.
# "The Body As Password", By Ann Davis, Wired Magazine, July 1997
#
# Currently housed at the National Security Agency, a working group of
# federal bureaucrats founded the Biometric Consortium in the early 1990s.
# Its 1995 charter promises to "promote the science and performance of
# biometrics for the government."
#
# Consortium mumbers include state welfare agencies, driver's license
# bureaus, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Social Security
# Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service.
If my attempts to show how bad a thing this is have been too rambling,
too abstract, here is a simple and accurate analogy:
* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
*
* It was Martin Anderson who, in his book, Revolution, revealed that during
* the Reagan administration during the 1980s, several top cabinet officials
* were urging President Ronald Reagan to implement a computerized National
* I.D. Card.
*
* The rationale for the proposal was that such a system would help put a lid
* on illegal immigration. [Reagan had been Governor of California]
*
* But Anderson, who at the time was a domestic advisor to the President and
* sat in on this particular cabinet meeting, spoke up and gave the group
* something to think about.
*
* "I would like to suggest another way that I think is a lot better," he
* told them, serious in demeanor but clearly being facetious. "It's a lot
* cheaper, it can't be counterfeited. It'
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