Forwarded From: "Spencer, Will" <wspencer@DMWGroup.com>
> In September 1996, President Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration
> Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996.
> Buried at approximately page 650 was a section that creates a
> framework for establishing a national ID card for the American public.
> This legislation was slipped through without fanfare or publicity. The
>
> author of the national ID law, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), stated in a
> Capitol Hill magazine that it was her intention to see Congress
> immediately implement a national ID system whereby every American
> would
> be required to carry a card with a "magnetic strip on it on which the
> bearer's unique voice, retina pattern, or fingerprint is digitally
> encoded."
>
> Source: "National ID Card Is Now Federal Law and Georgia Wants to Help
>
> Lead the Way", by Cyndee Parker, Witwigo, May/June 1997
>
-o-
Subscribe: mail majordomo@sekurity.org with "subscribe isn".
Today's ISN Sponsor: Repent Security Incorporated [www.repsec.com]
Received on Tue May 12 07:41:33 1998