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Brill's Contentious ID Card
pwackerly writes "The New York Times (illegal kidney sale required) is running a story on a private venture funded by the man behind CourtTV to sell ID cards that let you bypass security, both national (airports) and private (your business's lobby). Outside of the standard national ID concerns, now we'd have to worry about a terrorist stealing our super-secret ID from our wallet. Don't these people learn anything from reading 'Mostly Harmless?'"
Really, if I wanted to read the NYT, I'd sign up -- I wouldn't come to Slashdot looking for NYT articles. Why anyone west of the Hudson River would care what the NYT says is beyond me, given their attitude toward the rest of the USA (let alone the rest of the planet). So Taco: just stop accepting NYT articles as /. stories, OK?
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Like many slashdotters I do not like the idea of personal security cards as they restrict my ability to do what I please without nosy people checking up on me. What is more worrying is that the US government already has the capability to spy on people via satellite, and is using this technique despite it being outlawed by the first ammendment.
What I would like to see is the introduction of id cards for only the members of society considered to be 'high risk' for example ex convicts and people known to sympathise with al jazeera. In this people known to be a risk society could be monitored while the rest of us law abiding citizens could continue our lives without the risk of government interference.
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
Yes well... One is only our lives, health, security. The other is the advertiser's money. Which do you think is better protected?
'Sensible' is a curse word.
The real player here is Choicepoint, whose database will be used to determine who gets an ID. That's right, the same folks Katherine Harris hired to purge the Florida voter rolls of "convicted felons" in 2000, striking thousands of mostly Black electors for having the same, or similar, names as actual felons.
(I'll trust the replies to provide links.)
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Yes I did you lying sack of shit
It's a joke you fucking retard. Can take 5 minutes off from licking Bush's ass and sucking Ashcroft's cock? You scared little limp-dicked Republican wanker!
Our personal freedoms are restricted too much as it is. I'd rather live my life with a chance of being blown up by a terrorist rather then live in a police state.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
It's very simple: You DON'T fly.
So they'd arrest me without any evidenc eor even hint of it?
Isreal has a large problem with suicide bombings
Then, why are assholes like Scharon, who enforce those bombings with their politics, in the government instead of being in jail like war criminals should be? This is not meant to justify those suicide bombings, but it is overdue to be stated clearly that the so-called "military actions" of the Israelis are not better (IMO even worse, as it's the state, not only some idiots under the people) than bombing a restaurant in Tel Aviv.
People in Isreal are normal people. They just don't like being blown up.
I'm sure all the palestinensian kids and other people who died from Israelian rockets didn't like that, too. But they were killed by regular military forces, not by terrorists which are only a small part of the people!