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*LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
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 Radio chip coming soon to *your* driver's license?
Homeland Security seeks next-generation REAL ID
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 0APosted: February 28, 2009
12:25 am Eastern

 By Bob Unruh
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WorldNetDaily
Washington state's enhanced driver's license
Privacy advocates are issuing warnings about a new radio chip plan that
ultimately could provide electronic identification for every adult in the
U.S. and allow agents to compile attendance lists at anti-government rallies
simply by walking through the assembly.
The proposal, which has earned the support of Janet Napolitano, the newly
chosen chief of the Department of Homeland Security, would embed radio chips
in driver's licenses, or "enhanced driver's licenses."
"Enhanced driver's licenses give confidence that the person holding the card
is the person who is supposed to be holding the card, and it's less
elaborate than REAL ID," Napolitano said in a Washington Times report.
REAL ID is a plan for a federal identification system standardized across
the nation that so alarmed governors many states have adopted formal plans
to oppose it. However, a privacy advocate today told WND that the EDLs are
many times worse.
Radio talk show host and identity chip expert Katherine
Albrecht<http://www.katherinealbrecht.com/>said REAL ID earned the
opposition of Christians because of its resemblance
to the biblical "mark of the beast," civil libertarians opposed it for its
"big brother" connotations and others worried about identity theft issues
with the proposed databases.
"We got rid of the REAL ID program, but [this one] is way more insidious,"
she said.
Enhanced driver's licenses have built-in radio chips providing an
identifying number or information that can be accessed by a remote reading
unit while the license is inside a wallet or purse.
The technology already had been implemented in Washington state, where it is
promoted as an alternative to a passport for traveling to Canada. So far,
the program is optional.
But there are other agreements already approved with Michigan, Vermont, New
York and Arizona, and plans are under way in other states, including Texas,
she said.
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 Napolitano, as Arizona's governor, was against the REAL ID, Albrecht said.
Now, as chief of Homeland Security, she is suggesting the more aggressive
electronic ID of Americans.
"She's coming out and saying, 'OK, OK, OK, you win. We won't do REAL ID. But
what we probably ought to do is nationwide enhanced driver's licenses,'"
Albrecht told WND.
"They're actually talking about issuing every person a spychip driv er's
license," she said. "That is the potential problem."
Imagine, she said, going to a First Amendment-protected event, a church or a
mosque, or even a gun show or a peace rally.

Katherine Albrecht
"What happens to all those people when a government operator carrying a
reading device makes a circuit of the event?" she asked. "They could
download all those unique ID numbers and link them."
Participants could find themselves on "watch" lists or their attendance at
protests or rallies added to their government "dossier."
She said even if such license programs are run by states, there's virtually
no way that the databases would not be linked and accessible to the federal
government.
Albrecht said a hint of what is on the agenda was provided recently by
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state's legislature approved a
plan banning the government from using any radio chips in any ID
documentation.
Schwarzenegger's veto noted he did not want to interfere with any coming or
future federal programs for identifying people.
Albrecht's recent guest on her radio program was Michigan State Rep. Paul
Opsommer, who said the government appears to be using a na tional
anti-terrorism plan requiring people to document their identities as they
enter the United States to promote the technology.
"The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative was . just about proving you were
a citizen, not that you had to do it by any specific kind of technology,"
Opsommer said.
But he said, "We are close to the point now that if you don't want RFID in
any of your documents that you can't leave the country or get back into it."

Opsommer said his own state sought an exception to the growing federal move
toward driver's licenses with an electronic ID chip, and he was told that
was "unlikely."
He was told, "They were trying to harmonize these standards with Canada and
Mexico [so] it had to apply to everybody. I was absolutely dumbfounded."
WND previously has reported on such chips when hospitals used them to
identify newborns,<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=45542>a
company desired
to embed immigrants with the electronic
devices,<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50462>a
government health event showcased
them <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38262> and
when Wal-Mart used microchips to track
customers.<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35629>
Albrecht, who has worked on issues involving radio chip implants, REAL-ID,
"Spychips" and other devices, provided a platform for Opsommer to talk about
drivers licenses that include radio transmitters that provide identity
information about the carrier. She is active with the
AntiChips.com<http://www.antichips.com/>and
SpyChips.com <http://www.spychips.com/> websites.
Opsommer said he's been trying for several years to gain permission for his
state to develop its own secure license without a radio chip.
"They have flat out refused, and their reasoning is all about the need for
what they call 'facilitative technology,' which they then determined was
RFID," he said during the recent interview.
According to the U.S. State
Department,<http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html>which
regulates international travel requirements, U.S. citizens now "must
show proof of identity and proof of U.S. citizenship when entering the
United States from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the countries of the
Caribbean by land or seas."
Documentation could be a U.S. passport or other paperwork such as birth
certificates or drivers' licenses. But as of this summer, one of the options
for returning residents will be an "Enhanced Driver's License."
The rules are being promulgated under the outline of the WHTI, a result of
the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which requires
travelers to present a pas sport or other identity documents on entry into
the U.S.
While the government has expressed confidence that no personal or critical
information will be revealed through the
system,<http://www.dhs.gov/xtrvlsec/crossingborders/gc_1197575704846.shtm>it
also says drivers will need special information on how to use, carry
and
protect the radio-embedded licenses as well as "a shielded container that
will prevent anyone from reading your license."
But Albrecht, the author or co-author of six books and videos, including the
award-winning "Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track
your every move with RFID," warns it goes much further.
"This must be nipped in the bud. Enhanced DL's make REAL ID look like a walk
in the park," Albrecht said.
"Look, I am all in favor of only giving drivers licenses to U.S. citizens or
people that are otherwise here in this country legally," Opsommer said, "But
we are already doing that in Michigan. We accomplished that without an EDL,
as has virtually every other state via their own state laws.
"But just because we choose to only issue our license to U.S. citizens does
not mean that our licenses should somehow then fall under federal control.
It's still a state document, we are just controlling who we issue them to.
But under the EDL program, the Department of Homeland Security is saying
that making sure illegals don't get these is not enough. Now you need20the
chip to prove your citizenship," he continued.
Opsommer further warned the electronic chips embedded in licenses to confirm
identity are just the first step.
"Canadians are also more connected to what is going on in Britain with the
expansion of the national ID program there, and have seen the mission creep
that occurs with things like gun control first hand . Whatever the reason,
as an example, just last week the Canadian government repatriated a database
from the U.S. that contained the driver's license data of their citizens,"
he said.
"Someone finally woke up and realized it would not be a good idea for that
to be on American soil . I think it is only logical that we as state
legislators really understand how the governments of Mexico and Canada will
have access to our own citizen's data. Right now it is very ambiguous and
even difficult for me to get answers on as a state representative."
But Opsommer said Big Brother concerns certainly have some foundation.
"So if EDLs are the new direction for secure licenses in all states, it just
reinforces what many have been telling me that DHS wants to expand this
program and turn it into a wireless national ID with a different name," he
said. "We'll wake up one day and without a vote in Congress DHS will just
pass a rule and say something like 'starting next month you will need an EDL
to fly on a plane, or to buy a gun, or whatever.'"

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*Updated Feb 28*

Major General joins suit demnding proof of eligibility
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/major-general-proof-of-eligibility-needed-most-important-what-i-really-want-is-the-truth/


Here is the oath congress requires of all military officers to uphold, AND
the congressional oath many senators and congressmen have broken.

http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=1157


 2nd soldier joins lawsuit
http://www.therightsideoflife.com/?p=4093>

Native and Natural Born Citizen Explored
http://nativeborncitizen.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/berg-v-obama/


Keyes Vs Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqkMfToY9Pk


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*Good summary*
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88566


If the SCOTUS doesn't care about the Constitution,
why should the rest of US?
Certainly the USG doesn't abide by its limits.
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I'M MAD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE
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  *The question is NOT whether Obama is natural-born, we're past that.
The question now is: whether or not the various clauses of the Constitution
are enforceable or are they nothing more than words for the govt to hide
behind.*
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With ACORN, La Raza, and Ohio Dem officials sitting on 20,000 suspect voter
registrations and other Dept heads releasing Joe the Plumber's confidential
information, *this has been an incredibly, uncreditable election*. You'd
think there'd be a law somewhere at some level that would make elections
honest. Unfortunately, the SCOTUS has ruled, no one has standing.

 Rich Martin