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Feds Start Small on Smart IDs
jcatcw writes "Some government employees will be getting smart ID cards beginning this week. The unfunded mandate to have all employees and contractors use Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards is part of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12. The U.S. General Services Administration is providing enrollment centers that can verify the identities of employees, fingerprint and photograph the workers, and issue PIV cards to them. The deadline for getting cards to all employees and contractors is the end of September 2008."
This comment is accurate, on-topic, and it predicts exactly what appears to have happened...This is almost enough to get me aggravated at the whole moderation system here...
Yes - that is something to be very afraid of - just think, all of those in the health care "business" might no longer make their robber baron profits. And the country's health care quality and affordability for everyone (not just the fortunate few that can afford if) may improve towards that which people in most other developed countries enjoy.
I'm not buying this argument. For one, it's basically the slippery slope argument, an often used logical fallacy. Also, you need to be clear on why this ID is such a bad thing. Doen't most countries in the EU have a national ID card? You could start by pointing out what crippling damage the national ID cards have done them. I certainly haven't heard of such a misuse. We've all had social security cards issued to us, and I have yet to hear of or see evidence on how it's been so damaging to civil liberties.
A police state is when someone can ask the Department of Homeland Security to arrest Democrats. Don't waste time worrying about employee IDs.
No worries - you come across as more literate than most of the asshats here.
--Drinking plundered Burnetts as I can't afford my Svedka