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Silicon Valley software mogul Larry Ellison's proposal to create a national ID card has gained substantial ground -- and the interest of top Bush administration officials -- in a signal that the controversial idea may be closer to reality than ever.

In an interview with the Mercury News on Tuesday night, Ellison, the chairman and CEO of Oracle, said he met with U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and officials at the CIA and FBI in Washington, D.C., over the past week to discuss the idea. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has endorsed it, other tech executives have jumped on board and even some prominent civil libertarians have said the idea is worth pursuing.

``We are in the process of putting a proposal together and analyzing what it would take to get to get something running in a matter of a small number of months, like three months, 90 days,'' Ellison said. ``We think we could put up this technology very, very quickly.''

That's correct, he did. Obey the constitution of the United States of America. This constitution was based upon God's laws. These laws are broken. The traitors to the constitution of the United States of America include George W. Bush and almost his entire cabinet. Almost all of the Congress. They have sold out your freedom to the "New World Order".

Obey them if you will, but you will lose sight of your God, Jesus Christ. As for me and my house, we shall serve only the Lord. Which one of these do you reckon we will get to stay in?

CASTEAU, Belgium (CNN) -- NATO on Tuesday dispatched the first of five AWACS surveillance planes to patrol the U.S. skies -- the first time NATO assets have been used to help protect the continental United States.

IDG) -- The U.S. Secretary of Transportation's Rapid Response Team on air travel security late Friday made public a set of recommendations that build on President George W. Bush's Sept. 27 call to make commercial airports and airliners more secure against terrorism

The team's recommendations call for significant new uses of information technology, including issuing "smart" credentials for passengers and provisions for integrating intelligence agencies' data with information in airport and airline databases

The Office of Homeland Security will initially be run by former Pennsylvania
Governor Tom Ridge. It should be noted that Ridge himself got in trouble a few
years ago for praising the efficiency of the Third Reich's civilian
administration. Ridge also spoke highly of Mussolini's ability to keep the
Italian trains running on time. Now Ridge will be the guy running the Office of
Homeland Security.

Although it hasn't been made public yet, there is a proposal being prepared.
The Bush administration, however is playing it smart. They're being cautious by
whipping up public support first. Later they will announce some of the more
sinister activities of this agency.

According to an inside source, the 'Office of Homeland Security' will operate
three divisions. One will be a plain-clothes division similar to the FBI, which
will be called the State Security Division (SSD). Ironically SSD is the same
acronym as the former East German Secret Police.

The second division of the Office of Homeland Security will be a smaller
uniformed division, which currently remains nameless. It will act as a defacto
State Political Police.

Ridge wants the uniforms of this State Political Police division to
be modeled on existing state trooper uniforms - except done in black.

The actual name of this agency, Office of Homeland Security, is very
reminiscent of 20th century era German/Fascist and Russian/Communist secret
police agencies. In America, 'Homeland' is a neuter word. In German, however,
the word is translated as 'Vaterland' (Fatherland), while in Russian, the word
is 'Rodina' (Motherland). In both cases, these words can be translated into the
English neuter word -- 'homeland.'

There is no precedent for the use of this word 'homeland' in the United States
Government.

This new agency will also operate 'with extralegal authority.' They will then
be able to act under suspension of habeus corpus and under suspension of the
right against self- incrimination, the Fifth Amendment privilege, and also the
Fourth Amendment privilege.

With this new agency, the seeds are being sown for a new classification of law
that will most likely be called 'Homeland Security Law.' Nobody knows what it
will be called yet. But this is obviously what they're doing. Anyone, who knows
the Bushes for what they are, can see that this will be the groundwork for a
new, more powerful, more sinister agency, wherein all sorts of covert activity,
illegal and not, will be extant.

In order to take the concept of 'illegal' covert activity away, they are laying
the foundation for a whole new separate body of law that will be parallel to,
but above, the National Security Acts.

The Office of Homeland Security will be a separate agency, not under any other
agency, not even under the Department of Justice. It will be the most senior
agency in the Cabinet. It will probably fall somewhere between the Department
of State and the Department of Defense, or somewhere between Treasury and
Defense. In terms of authority, it will be called a 'Super Agency,' which
implies it will not be under anyone. It will act as a coordinating agency, but
will be above the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DIA. This will, of course, create a whole
new set of turf war battles. But no agency head -- in this post-WTC
environment -- will dare say anything against it because they'd lose their job.

The new Office of Homeland Security helicopters will be painted a matte black
and have digitized red lettering that says State Security, dark tinted windows,
and numerous aerials and dishes with a big searchlight on the front. Bell
Helicopters is supposed to get the new contract to produce this new super-
surveillance helicopter. Supposedly they'll have the most sophisticated
surveillance electronics ever made. This equipment will include gear that
people don't even know has been invented yet.

rom: clarence napier 


Subject: SECTION 5108. REPORT ON SUCCESS OF ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE  RECRUITMENT.

SECTION 5108. REPORT ON SUCCESS OF ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE 
RECRUITMENT.

"Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Attorney General, in concert with the Director of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency, 
the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and 
the Commissioner of the Customs Service, shall report to Congress and 
the President on the efforts made, and the success of such efforts, 
to recruit and hire former Royal Hong Kong Police officers into 
Federal law enforcement positions. The reports shall discuss any 
legal or administrative barriers preventing a program of adequate 
recruitment of former Royal Hong Kong Police officers."

The United States government insists that because of the inner city 
violence, there is a need for a national police force and the hiring 
of foreign troops, along with the confiscation of firearms. The 
British Government has used Chinese Ghurkas as the Royal Hong Kong 
police for many decades, plus they used them as a mercenary army 
throughout the world. The Ghurkas have been training in the United 
States for a few years.

Journalists and public officials in Montana have verified their 
presence.  President George Bush signed an executive order allowing 
U.N. troops to be used in the United States to quell civil unrest. 
President Bill Clinton has signed an executive order that allows 
United States troops to serve under foreign commanders.

At Fort Polk, Louisiana, U.S. and foreign troops train together - 
including Russian soldiers. Part of the training is in a mock city 
built by the government. The training focuses on door-to-door 
searches for weapons.

Similar training was conducted by the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency (FEMA) in Montana. The Associated Press reported on August 21, 
1993, the use of Russian equipment and personnel at Fort Polk. The 
information service office at the base did verify the Russian 
presence. In both Alabama and in Mississippi Russian and German 
trucks are parked in compounds which are guarded by black-uniformed 
soldiers wearing ski masks.

In Anchorage, Alaska, as reported in the Anchorage Times, black 
uniformed soldiers arrested a motorist and detained him. The incident 
took place on the Glen Highway near Wasilla. A motorist was speeding 
and was pulled over by four civilian type vehicles with flashing 
lights. The motorist stopped his vehicle and was approached by a 
black uniform trooper with a new model M-16 and packing a sidearm - 
with no badge or identifying emblem. When the trooper and others 
started to search the motorist's vehicle, the motorist said he wanted 
to see a search warrant only to be informed that these troopers did 
not require a search warrant. Everything was removed from the 
vehicle. A similar incident occurred in Northern California on 
Highway 880.

When the motorist asked for identification from the troopers and a 
search warrant, his vehicle was seized.

                           GANGS RECRUITED

But what is of more concern is the fact that the United States 
government is now recruiting street gangs. On February 9, 1994, a 
seminar was held in Chicago. The seminar was called an Urban Summit 
in which people like Chicago gangster Wallace "Gator" Bradley was one 
of the attendees. Bradley is the "enforcer" for "King" Larry Hoover, 
the leader of the Gangster Disciples. The government provided grants 
to the gangs. The grants, up to $2.5 million, have been provided as 
an incentive to preserve peace between the gangs. The Washington 
Times reported on December 14, 1993, "As part of Operation 
Reconstruction, a fledgling campaign to curb street violence, 
business leaders are outfitting some of the city's toughest gang 
members with free cellular phones, jobs and cash. In exchange, the 
gang members are expected to patrol their neighborhoods." The 
program's board of directors include Crips leader Michael Darren 
Ashbrry, who recently threatened to shoot the local police and kill 
their families, and Bloods leader Eric David James, whose criminal 
record includes burglary and aggravated motor vehicle theft. Of such 
a program, the Los Angeles Times reported on April 19, 1993, "A year 
ago, Bloods and Crips emerged from the ashes with their red and blue 
bandannas tied in unity. The summer months were marked by jubilant 
peace gatherings at the housing projects in Watts..." A few of the 
gang leaders were financially rewarded by the government. But when no 
further funds were provided the gangs threatened new armed violence 
and terrorism.

In 1966, a Chicago gang truce was negotiated between the Blackstone 
Rangers and the Eastside Disciples. The "peacemakers" were rewarded 
with a $972,000 Federal grant. After receiving the Federal money, the 
Rangers evolved into an even more ruthless syndicate called El Rukn. 
During the French Revolution, the Sans-Culotte mobs were organized 
and controlled by conspiring elites; the mob violence prompted the 
manipulable masses into seeking authoritarian controls from the 
revolutionary government. The Nazis used the Brown-shirts to create 
violence.

In the Crime Bill of 1991, passed by Congress by an overwhelming 
margin, there are provisions for the U.S. Government to build scores 
of detention camps around the nation. These detention camps are 
reportedly to be used for illegal aliens, drug traffickers, and 
political dissidents. In the 1930s, the Nazis also built such 
facilities for "similar purposes". Though Congress authorized their 
construction in 1992, many of these facilities had already been 
built. The 1991 Crime Bill allows the President of the United States 
to declare martial law in case of a "drug crisis".

There were 24,703 Americans murdered in 1991 and 1.9 million 
incidents of violent crime reported - and the emphasis is on 
reported. The San Francisco Chronicle article of October 7, 1993, 
further states, "The very thought of these UN troops on American 
street corners is undoubtedly offensive to millions of Americans - 
the thought of soldiers from around the world, under the banner of 
the United Nations, taking over our streets. After all, UN. soldiers 
traditionally are deployed only to nations that cannot take care of 
their own problems." The article implies, the United Nations would 
send troops to any nation with such a lawlessness state - and the 
United States would qualify under those guidelines.

                          EMERGENCY POWERS

The nation has been gearing up for internal problems for many years. 
Hundreds of Presidential Executive Orders have been issued to allow 
emergency powers under any type of crisis - perceived or real. A 
Presidential Executive Order - whether Constitutional or not - 
becomes law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry. 
Congress is bypassed.

Here are just a few Executive Orders that would suspend the 
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been 
on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a 
Presidential pen:

   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all 
     modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control 
     the communication media.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all
     electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all 
     food resources and farms.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize 
civilians 
     into work brigades under government supervision.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all 
     health, education and welfare functions.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to 
     operate a national registration of all persons.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all 
     airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority 
     to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, 
     designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for 
     populations.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over 
     railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office 
     of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all 
     Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international 
     tensions and economic or financial crisis.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of 
     Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to 
     institute industrial support, to establish judicial and 
     legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and 
     correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the 
     President.

Without Congressional approval, the President now has the power to 
transfer whole populations to any part of the country, the power to 
suspend the Press and to force a national registration of all 
persons. The President, in essence, has dictatorial powers never 
provided to him under the Constitution. The President has the power 
to suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in a real or 
perceived emergency. Unlike Lincoln and Roosevelt, these powers are 
not derived from a wartime need, but from any crisis domestic or 
foreign, hostile or economic. Roosevelt created extraordinary 
measures during the Great Depression, but any President faced with a 
similar - or lesser - economic crisis now has extraordinary powers to 
assume dictatorial status.

                   UNITED NATION'S GROWING STATUS

The Constitution of the United States provides a mechanism by which 
foreign treaties must be approved by both the President of the United 
States and the U.S. Senate. This also holds true for covenants and 
agreements that require United States participation in foreign 
bodies.

In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson was the architect of the League of 
Nations, an international body that would regulate the conduct of 
nations. The need for such a League was vital in the eyes of Wilson. 
But to implement it and have the United States participate in it, the 
Democratic President needed the confirmation of the Republican 
Senate. The Senate declined to oblige the President and the United 
States never became a member of the League of Nations. Without the 
United States, the League sat hopelessly by watching the clouds of 
World War Two form over Europe, Africa and Asia. With the outbreak of 
the war, the League of Nations collapsed.

President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and 
Premiere Josef Stalin formulated a plan to institute the United 
Nations. President Harry Truman stated immediately after Roosevelt's 
death that the United Nations concept would go forward. The United 
Nations was born in San Francisco in 1945. The world headquarters for 
the United Nation was scheduled to be built in Moraga, California, 
until the Rockefeller family offered the New York site free.

The United Nadons was a weak organization, with veto power vested in 
the Security Council composed of the world powers of the time - the 
Soviet Union, Nationalist China, Great Britain, France and the United 
States. Any one nation had the power to cancel any action. There is a 
gathering strength in the United Nations today, that never existed 
before and that new position does worry some American political 
observers. More increasingly, smaller countries are beginning to 
dominate votes in the General Assembly. The breakup of the Soviet 
Union, for instance, could provide a greater voice with each Republic 
gaining a seat in the United Nations. Already, the nation of 
Macedonia - part of Yugoslavia, has been admitted. There are more 
socialist countries in the United Nations now than there are 
democracies - shifting the balance of power in the General Assembly.

When the United States sought support for its invasion of Iraq, it 
turned to the United Nations and several powers, including the Soviet 
Union, to unify public opinion. At that time President George Bush 
referred to such operations as the New World Order. But the Iraqi War 
was not the driving force for the New World Order, it was the first 
public showing of such an Order. Going along with the concept of the 
New World Order, United Nations troops are becoming more active - in 
Yugoslavia, Somalia, Haiti and in Cambodia. President Bush even 
signed an Executive Order in April 1992 permitting United Nations 
troops to operate within the boundaries of the United States to quell 
domestic or international violence that might occur here.

Where did President Bush gain the authority for such an Executive 
Order? The authority can be found in the First Session of the 97th 
Congress in Senate Treaty Document No. 97- 19. On January, 17, 1980, 
while President Jimmy Carter was still in the White House, the 
President and Senate confirmed the Constitution of the United Nations 
Industrial Development Organization.

                   ARTICLE 2 OF UNITED NATIONS LAW

The Preamble, Article I (Objectives) and Article 2 (Functions), 
defines the entire concept of the New World Order - eight years 
before the election of President Bush and 10 months before the 
election of Ronald Reagan. The foreign Constitution states that the 
intent of the New World Order is to "direct, control, finance and 
subsidize all natural and human resources and agro-related, as well 
as basic industries...through dynamic social and economic 
changes...with a view to assisting in the establishment of a new 
international economic order." The Preamble creates an oligarchy who 
will establish "rational and equitable international economic 
relations". United States currency and coin, used by most standards, 
would no longer be stabilized nor assured of its value. A new 
economic standard would be implemented. An example of this type of 
shifting can be seen in Europe with the establishment of the Euro 
Dollar, which forced several European nations to devalue their 
currency. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization does 
not call for general elections. A total of 45 members are elected to 
a Board of Directors by the General Assembly. There is no guarantee 
the larger, more industrial nations will be represented on the Board.

Since the President and the Senate approved the U N. Constitution, 
many laws have been created in this nation under the guise of 
Executive Orders or, for example, the Crime Bill of 1991, allowing 
more power to the President in time of domestic or international 
emergency. Senate Report 93-549 states: "Under the powers delegated 
by these statutes, the President may; seize property; organize and 
control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military 
forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all 
transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private 
enterprise; restrict travel; and in a plethora or particular ways, 
control the lives of all American citizens."

There has been much debate focused on whether the American people 
would allow such drastic measures to be taken. Most experts agree 
that it would take an extraordinary crisis in order for any President 
to invoke such non-Democratic measures. The criterion of an emergency 
has not been defined in any law, but it provides for domestic, 
international or even just monetary threat to allow the activation of 
such harsh controls. If the American people, in general, believed 
that such a crisis was that acute, the ability to invoke such 
measures would be made easier. Obviously, there would be some pockets 
of resistance. Though there have been such laws on the books since 
President Richard Nixon helped to shape them, no President has 
invoked them nor even threatened publicly to do so. But any given 
President at any given time has the power and the resources to invoke 
such laws. Under regulations approved by Congress, such laws could be 
invoked without their consultation or approval, and Congress would 
not be allowed to review such actions until six months after they had 
been activated. In the Crime Bill of 1991, Congress provided similar 
powers that allow for the construction of detention camps, the 
rounding up of aliens and U.S. citizens, the suspending of habeas 
corpus - Constitutional law protecting against illegal detention - 
and the right to declare martial law in the event of a "drug crisis".

Senate Report 93-549 concedes, "A majority of the people of the 
United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 
40 years freedoms and government procedures guaranteed by the 
Constitution have in varying degrees been abridged by laws brought 
into force by states of national emergency. Nixon declared a state of 
emergency in 1973 and there are no documents to support that the 
emergency was lifted. Much of the foreground of the "emergency" has 
been the atomic age. The fear of massive nuclear attack set a series 
of emergency agencies and laws into effect. The main purpose was to 
assure the continuity of government in the case of a nuclear attack 
survival, pure and simple, of the American government. But in placing 
such regulations into the survival scenario, what the United States 
government did was to protect government officials and offices, but 
not the survival or assurances of the democratic processes. The 
intent was to be able to survive a nuclear attack and retaliate. 
Saving democratic principles was of less concern than preventing an 
aggressor, who launched the nuclear attack, to win an undeclared war 
in a matter of minutes. A nuclear counterattack would have been met 
with a second nuclear strike, met in turn by a second counterattack.

Today, that emergency level has shifted away from the nuclear attack 
scenario and focused instead on economic problems and the potential 
of civilian unrest within the United States. The Executive Orders, 
transfer of power to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 
the Crime Bill of 1991, and United States ratification of the United 
Nations Constitution in 1980, all commence to usurp the rights of 
Americans guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States. The 
seizure laws, gun control measures, emergency legislation, all eke 
away at Constitutional rights guaranteed to all citizens.

President John F. Kennedy attempted to shift the economic power base 
away from the independent Federal Reserve Board and back to Congress. 
Under the Constitution, only Congress shall have the right to coin 
money. Yet if you look at every bill in your wallet, you will see 
that it is a Federal Reserve Note. Kennedy signed an Executive Order 
in 1963, directing the monetary system of this nation be placed back 
into the Constitutional hands of Congress. He was assassinated within 
three weeks of that order and President Lyndon Johnson rescinded the 
order within a week of taking office. President Dwight D. Eisenhower 
warned the nation, on his retirement from the Presidency, not to 
trust the powers that were building - the military-industrial 
complex. The changes in our fundamental freedoms have, as the Senate 
stated, been eroded in some form for 40 years.

The public documentation exists on these erosions, but few 
individuals have sought them out and few people of influence have 
bothered to inform the public of these basic changes. The 
corporate-owned media has sat quietly by on the sidelines, reviewing 
profits and not public priority. America has been gradually shifting, 
laws have been created over four decades that have established the 
machinery for massive Presidential authority in any time of undefined 
emergency.

The only question that remains is: Will the day and the person come 
that will see the implementation of these laws? George Washington's 
vision foresees foreign troops on American soil and the eventual 
triumph of the people of this land. Lincoln says destruction can only 
come from within.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- As the U.S. investigation into the September 11 attacks continues, many civil libertarians said they are concerned about the possible violation of fundamental U.S. civil rights for those who have been arrested and detained.

Lawyers also said that the government will not say which people are being held or what the charges might be. In some cases, attorneys and legal analysts said, the usual rules governing detentions have been altered or even suspended.

Although the secret police in Italy during Mussolini's rule were notorious, probably the most extreme and terrible example was that in Germany under Adolf Hitler. Under National Socialism, Germany became a police state, a state where the power of the police, and especially the secret police, over security and justice was tyrannically applied with virtually no procedural checks.

The German secret police had its genesis in the SS, or Schutzstaffel [defense echelon], created as Hitler's bodyguard under the SA (the military arm of the Nazi party), and in the SD, or Sicherheitsdienst [security service], organized in 1931 as the intelligence branch of the SS. From 1929, Heinrich Himmler controlled the SS. The Gestapo (secret state police) originated in 1933 under Hermann Goering and was ultimately merged with the SD. Just as the Gestapo had its secret operatives among the mass of the population, the SD had agents, known only to the chief SD officers, in every department of the German government, in the armed forces, in the Nazi party, among chief industrial executives, and among the Gestapo itself. While the Gestapo was known and feared, the existence of the SD was known to few.

The powers of the Gestapo, the SS, and the SD were vast; virtually any person suspected of disloyalty to the regime or of social aberration could be summarily arrested, executed, or interred in a concentration camp. The SS, literally a separate army, was responsible to Himmler alone; thus, probably for the first time in history, a secret police wielded virtually absolute power. The crimes and atrocities of the Nazi authorities in Germany itself and throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II were largely carried out by the SS and the Gestapo, who controlled the concentration and extermination camps, and who set up their subsidiary agencies in every conquered country

Focusing on biometrics at Comdex

Body of data: Eyeballing security

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- One area of technology getting a lot of attention at Comdex Fall 2001 is biometrics.

This is the screening and measurement of any personal physical human feature that might be used for identification. Airport security needs are an obvious priority, of course. And dozens of companies specializing in biometrics are on the massive Comdex showroom floor this year to show off what they're researching, developing, testing, calibrating and selling.

Facial recognition, fingerprinting, iris scanning and reading the features of a hand are leading the industry's efforts at this point, but the intent -- and possibility -- is to measure any unique trait on the body that can then be recorded and act as a password or identifier

Will these techniques invade personal privacy? Can they help make airports and other places safer?

Analysts say it largely depends on whether people are more willing to trade some civil liberties for security since the terrorist attacks of September 11.

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The Judas attitude of the Administration is symbolized in an article written by Bill Clinton's very close friend, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, titled: "The Birth of the Global Nation." Talbott strongly attacked American national sovereignty, stating: "NATIONAL AS WE KNOW IT WILL BE OBSOLETE: ALL STATES WILL RECOGNIZE A SINGLE, GLOBAL" (666) "AUTHORITY," (7\20/92 Time Magazine).

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A number of citizens have already been illegally detained. The 10\14\94 WASHINGTON TIMES reported that U.S. Marines in California had to fill out a "Combat Arms Survey" that asked 39 questions about attitude to determine if AMERICAN MARINES WERE WILLING TO SERVE THE NEW WORLD ORDER TRAITORS AND FIGHT AGAINST THEIR OWN FELLOW CITIZENS. Marines were asked to give their attitudes on the treason statement: "I am a United Nations fighting person. I serve in the forces which maintain world peace and EVERY Nation's way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their service." The last item on the survey asked the Marines' attitude about the statement: "I WOULD FIRE UPON U.S. CITIZENS, WHO REFUSED OR RESIST CONFISCATION OF FIREARMS BANNED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT."

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Now why do you suppose God will Bless America? Oh, but don't worry you will be mystically "Raptured" in that secret coming of Jesus won't you?

Driver's licenses could contain personal information on motorists, such as fingerprints or retinal scans, under a proposal submitted yesterday by the state's Motor Vehicle Administrator.

Licenses are "the de facto national I.D. card," Motor Vehicle Administrator Anne Ferro said. "This would reduce fraud and ensure the integrity of licenses after they are issued."

News that some of the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks had fraudulently obtained driver's licenses focused attention on the need to tighten the licensing system.

The Anti-terrorism Workgroup -- established by Gov. Parris N. Glendening and legislative leaders -- included driver's licenses among the issues it is considering as it prepares

legislation for the 2002 General Assembly session.

Ms. Ferro said biometric technology exists to include a bar code on licenses that could identify drivers by fingerprint, scans of the iris or retina, facial characteristics and signatures.

Will this be your UPC Bar Code 666 number universal with your very own assigned international ID number?

Does this bother you? See the very same markings now coming up in US Treasury Bills below

"Maryland doesn't have any authority that would allow us to use biometrics. We should have it," she told members of the group during a meeting in Annapolis.

State law now requires that licenses issued to people who are not U.S. citizens cover the same five-year period as regular licenses. The Motor Vehicle Administration proposed that licenses of non-citizens expire when their visa or passports expire, if that is less than five years.

New Jersey already has such a limit, and California and Florida are now issuing 30-day licenses while their agencies confirm with the Immigration and Naturalization Service that a person is in the country legally, Ms. Ferro said.

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Are we all so stupidly blind with this Hollywood drummed up Dime-Store Patriotism that we cannot seem to understand that the U.K and much of the rest of the world are using New York's so-called acts of bin Laden, terrorism to establish the Mark system of the coming cosmic-christ, Moshiach who will become the King of the Jews?

LONDON, England (IDG) -- Imagis Technologies Inc. and Serco Group PLC are working with the UK's National Crime Squad (NCS) to develop a facial-recognition application for use in crime fighting.

The squad is working on a national database based on Imagis ID-2000 facial-recognition technology to use as a tool for keeping track of convicted pedophiles and other criminals, Imagis announced at the Biometrics 2001 Conference here on Thursday.

"We are working with both Imagis and Serco on the technology," an NCS spokesman confirmed.

UK-based Serco is a management and consulting company that has been providing IT support to the U.K. government and the NCS, a government agency, for a number of years. The Canadian Imagis Technologies is a developer of image-identification software with a focus on biometric facial recognition, according to the company's Web site.

Of course their logo is the Illuminated cosmic Light with the three slashes of the Luciferic Trinity symbol

The Imagis' ID-2000 was picked for further development by the UK government for its ability to identify an individual within very large databases of images in seconds, its ability to search for common background scenes as well as faces, its use imagery from any source, including live video as well as digital and analog photos and the security built into the program that allows for the secure transmission of data even from remote databases, Imagis said in a statement that was vetted and approved by the NCS.

The software will aid law-enforcement agencies in identifying victims and perpetrators as well as background imagery for criminal investigation and case preparation, Imagis said.

Already being used by the NCS, the facial-recognition technology is playing a part in the ongoing investigation into an online pedophile group which on Wednesday led to the arrest of 130 people worldwide, 10 in the UK, Imagis said.

The software is also being looked into as a tool for the fight against international terrorism, an NCS spokesman said.

In October, a U.S. Senate subcommittee began looking into the possible future use of cutting-edge devices such as facial-recognition monitors and retinal scanners as a way to combat terrorism following the attacks in New York and Washington D.C. on September 11.

The Imagis ID-2000 facial-recognition technology is also currently being used by the Oakland Police Department (OPD), in Oakland, California throughout Alameda County, including the Oakland International Airport, the OPD and Imagis announced in October.

Computer I need you to get throught to NSA immediately, lock into security system 2X-2L

Is this science fiction or will this be the system in which you will not be able to buy or sale? Will you purchase food? Will you pay tax on your property? Will you feed your children? Will you have electricity and water services? Will you accept it? Have you already been deceived by everything mentioned in this entire web-site?

But of course this company which sports the Mark, knows that this Illuminated coming Moshiach's system is ready and waiting for him

This company, of course sports the coming falsechrist logo, but am I surprised any more?

Like the Apostle Paul, I know I prosper in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ the son of God in Heaven the Most High God. All the world will hate me because of my Lord's name.

Keyware - Internet Solutions Group Europe, Excelsiorlaan 32-34, B-1930 Zaventem, Belgium

Until recently, computer security systems relied on what the user knew (password or PIN) to identify him/herself or what they had (a token or smart card). Lately, biometrics has added another dimension to the authentication puzzle by offering the choice of who the user is (fingerprints, voice, face, etc.). According to industry analyst firm, Frost & Sullivan, the market for authentication technologies, including biometrics, will reach $2.6 billion by 2006. In a response to this ever-growing variety of authentication methods, Keyware has created the Centralized Authentication Server (CAS), which allows organizations to manage all their authentication methods (PKI, biometrics, smart cards, PINs, passwords, etc.) from one server. CAS also allows organizations to manage security in a variety of areas from the network to the call center to building entry. With CAS, any authentication method can be deployed at any point of security.

Keyware specializes in biometrics—the technology of measuring an individual’s unique personal characteristics such as voice, face, and fingerprints. With its advancements of this core technology, Keyware now delivers biometric authentication with the highest levels of security, efficiency, and convenience for today’s environments.

When the Iluuminated Angels system is in place, have you found an area to hide? Uh Oh, not so fast!

Radian has great uses for its Biometrics surveilances for the future. One of its best products will be, Oh no don't tell me

FBI confirms 'Magic Lantern' spy project

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- An FBI spokesman confirmed Wednesday that the United States government is working on a controversial Internet spying technology, code-named "Magic Lantern," which could be used to eavesdrop on computer communications by suspected criminals.

"It is a workbench project" that has not yet been deployed, said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson. "We can't discuss it because it's under development."

The FBI has already acknowledged that it uses software that records keystrokes typed into a computer to obtain passwords that can be used to read encrypted e-mail and other documents as part of criminal (Christian) investigations.

Magic Lantern reportedly would allow the agency to plant the a Trojan horse keystroke logger on a target's PC by sending a computer virus over the Internet, rather than require physical access to the computer as is now the case.

Malicious hackers have been known to use e-mail or other remote methods for installing spying technology, security experts said.

When word of Magic Lantern leaked out in published reports in November, civil libertarians said the program could easily be abused by overzealous law enforcement agencies.

When asked if Magic Lantern would require a court order for the FBI to use it, as existing keystroke logger technology does, Bresson said: "Like all technology projects or tools deployed by the FBI it would be used pursuant to the appropriate legal process."

Major antivirus vendors this week said they would not voluntarily cooperate with the FBI and said their products would continue to be updated to detect and prevent viruses, regardless of their origin, unless there was a legal order otherwise.

Doing so would anger customers and alienate non-U.S. customers and governments, they said, adding that there had been no requests by the FBI to ignore any viruses.

Step beyond 'Carnivore'?

The FBI set a precedent in a similar case by asking Internet service providers to install technology in their networks that allows officials to secretly read e-mails of criminal investigation targets.

While the FBI requires a court order to install its technology, formerly called "Carnivore," some service providers reportedly comply voluntarily, while court orders are relatively easy to get, civil libertarians argue.

Given the hijacking attacks of September 11, it is also conceivable that the U.S. government would enlist the aid of private companies to combat terrorism and help its war effort, said Michael Erbschloe, vice president of research at Computer Economics, which analyzes the impact of viruses.

"In previous wars, including World War II, the government had the power to call on companies to help; to commandeer the technology," said Erbschloe, author of "Information Warfare: How to Survive Cyber Attacks."

"If we were at war, the government would be able to require technology companies to cooperate, I believe, in a number of ways, including getting backdoor access to information and computer systems."

and what about? This seems to be an ocultic date, hopefully someday soon I will pen it down or

The National ID Card That Isn't, Yet
The Department of Transportation takes the back door and starts linking state driver's licenses. Are 50 national ID cards any better than one?

Tuesday, Jan. 08, 2002
It wouldn't be a national ID card — not really. The Department of Transportation, acting on instructions from Congress, has begun work with states to develop electronically smarter drivers' licenses that can be checked for validity across the country, and that have more than just than that always-awful picture — like a fingerprint or retinal-scan imprint — to match the card to its holder.

So it's more of a national ID system, a linking of Departments of Motor Vehicles — and the records they keep on you — across state lines, with some extra on-card security measures thrown in. For terrorists on the run (and other criminals, too, but nobody worries about them any more) the plan means that a state trooper in California would be able to pull the records of a driver from Georgia — and be certain that those records were the driver's, and not an innocent lookalike he stole the card from.

For the rest of us, this wouldn't be so different than what's already in place. The standardized databases would save the California state trooper a phone call to Atlanta; he'd be able to run a nationwide check from his car. And the smarter cards, "hardened" with biometric data, would make identity theft much trickier, at least in person. (Georgia, incidentally, already uses thumbprints on its drivers' licenses.)

The plan, Congress hopes, will be cheaper and easier to implement, and less likely to incur the talk-show ire of civil libertarians and states' rights purists (the same type who squawked in 1908 when the FBI was born). But the approach is mere stealth — 50 different state ID cards all linked together is pretty much the same as one national ID card, just as all those new quarters are still worth 25 cents each, no matter which state is on the back.

For some, the real problem with smarter, more centralized ID cards is that they give bureaucrats a better chance to screw up more of your life when you accidentally get put into the Big Computer as, say, a serial flasher. For others, it's that the federal government can punch a few keys and trace your steps. But they can do that already. (Remember when Ken Starr subpoenaed the list of books Monica Lewinsky bought at a D.C. bookstore with an ordinary credit card?) With a nationalized driver's license/ID card — whether it says "New York State" or "United States" — it'll just be easier.

The great leap forward from a longer arm for the law to "1984" will have to be made by the private sector. How well a watchful federal government will actually be able to track its citizens will depend on how many places demand to see your driver's license. Airports already do. So do some supermarkets, if you're buying beer. But what about malls? Movie theaters? Sports stadiums? Banks and their ATMs? If all the places you go demand a swipe to weed out terrorists — and are willing to pay for the technology to do the swiping — then yes, Big Brother could know where you go and what you do while you're there.

Of course, that could make life easier for you too. What if your state/national ID card was your passport as well as your drivers' license? What if you could do your taxes at an ATM — and then withdraw your refund? Or what if your national ID card was your ATM card, and your credit card, and your HMO card and your work ID and the passkey to your maximum-security apartment, all at once? There's the freedom to continue to come and go as you please, in (relative) anonymity, and there's the freedom to carry a dozen different cards and identifications around with you wherever you go.

The national ID-card issue to really fight about may be when and whether citizens will be required to carry them. The average American driver's license gets a pretty good workout these days — certainly far more than traffic laws themselves would seem to warrant — but you can only get arrested for driving without one. If the U.S. domestic response to terrorism starts to resemble Zimbabwe's, which passed a law in November making it compulsory to carry ID on pain of fine or imprisonment, well, that's something to worry about.

But until Congress passes a law like that — and until you can't enter a movie theater without the usher checking you for priors — there isn't all that much to get exercised about. Most of the privacy rights — if there really are such things — vulnerable to a nationalized ID card have already been trampled under the wheels of increased security, more efficient law enforcement and better business long ago. Most of them can be regained simply by paying cash — and keeping your fingerprints off the murder weapon.

Time, Just another "One World Order" Propagandist, giving the go ahead to "Please Show Your Papers Sir"

    FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED OCT. 4, 1998
    THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
    Boiling the frog: Much will depend on the new 'electronic money'

EDITORS: A version of this feature first appeared in the October edition of
Las Vegas Magazine.

An Internet press release (how trendy) from the folks at MasterCard
International, datelined "Purchase, N.Y., July 22, 1998," informs us:

"MasterCard International hosted today an online forum with thought
leaders from global business, government and research organizations to
discuss lifestyle changes that will occur as smart card technology gains
acceptance over the next five years.

"Representatives from IBM, Hitachi, British Telecommunications plc, the
U.S. federal government's General Services Administration, The Tower Group
and Emerge Online participated in the roundtable, which was moderated by
Richard Phillimore, Senior Vice President of MasterCard's Chip Card
Business unit.

"'Five years from now, multi-application smart cards will be an
established technology in the payments business,' Phillimore said. 'As the
benefits of multi-application smart cards are proven in the marketplace,
the conversion from magnetic stripe to chip-based payment cards will be
very rapid. By the year 2010, we expect all of MasterCard's credit and
debit cards and terminals will be chip-based.'

"Smart cards will deliver increased consumer value and utility to today's
credit cards, Phillimore added. 'Chip technology will enable cardholders to
use their cards for many more purposes, such as electronic ticketing,
loyalty programs, and secure remote shopping -- a true Lifestyle Card that
can be tailored to meet the unique needs and preferences of a single
individual.'"

When mentioning those ominous-sounding "loyalty programs," I should point
out, the online MasterCard gang are referring not to government loyalty
oaths of the "am not now and never have been a member of the Communist
Party" variety, but rather a system in which cardholders receive discounts
for "loyally" shopping through one company -- the system probably familiar
to most consumers today via those "discount club cards" issued by your
supermarket, offering you 30 cents off a package of toilet paper if you let
the teller scan your card at the checkout stand.

Of course, the store gets something back in return for that discount. In
addition to the obvious hope that you'll keep going back to the store whose
discount card you carry (essentially, a surcharge is being applied to
"hoppers" who show no store loyalty), the management can now easily track
how many of its outlets you visit, and what you buy there.

The initial commercial applications may be innocent enough -- "Let's save
postage by only sending coupons for this new brand of breakfast cereal to
the home addresses of our shoppers who already buy the more expensive
competitor." But you don't have to be the kind who walks stooped over to
avoid the black helicopters to foresee the day when the government
inspectors may arrive, asking to see the electronic profiles of all
customers in a given geographic area who have used the fast-spreading cards
to buy anything from home AIDS test kits to hydroponic "grow lights" to
"High Times" magazine to pistol ammunition.

It's all stored in the computer, you know. And how long do you think Jack,
your friendly local produce manager, is really going to refuse to let the
FBI access his computer without a court order? About as long as it takes
them to ask for his Social Security number and threaten to call their
friends at the IRS, suggesting Jack may be in need of an immediate tax
audit?

The cheerful little MasterCard press release doesn't take long to broach
the subject of "expanded uses" for the new cards with their embedded memory
chips:

"The panel also addressed the use of smart cards for identification
purposes. Many agreed that identification was the 'killer application' that
would encourage adoption of smart card programs. Kotaro Yamashita, COO of
Financial Services at Hitachi, Ltd. said, 'We see identification
applications issued by governments as being big in many places outside of
Asia, for example Central America.' However, Marty Wagner, Associate
Administrator of the Office of Government wide Policy at the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) cautioned that 'National identity card
programs could run into trouble in the U.S. due to privacy concerns.' "

The process of accustoming Americans to carrying around cards which can be
used to buy anything from a candy car to a soda pop to a round-trip airline
ticket to London -- but whose embedded chips will also relay to corporate
and government snoops the social security number and other personal
information (and resultant tax obligations) of anyone making that purchase
-- is well underway.

There's an old folk warning that if you throw a frog in boiling water he
will quickly jump out. But if you put a frog in a pan of cold water and
raise the temperature ever so slowly, the gradual warming will make the
frog doze happily, triggering the soporific response he instinctively
displays when the sun shines on his lily pad ... In fact, the frog will
eventually cook to death, without ever waking up.

Likewise, some mighty high-powered public relations types are figuring
ways to emphasize the convenience of "electronic cash" - and downplay the
effect it may have in removing any remaining privacy from the way you spend
your pay.

Convenience, convenience, convenience, was the happy spin Time magazine
put on a new "single electronic card that may replace everything in your
wallet," in their issue of April 27, 1998. As the magazine was listing all
the bothersome stuff you now have to lug around - cash, ATM cards, credit
cards, proof of insurance - it made a not-so-subtle swipe at anyone who
would resist the happy consolidation of such burdens:

"Your ID cards. PRESENT: You lug various bits of your legal identity.
FUTURE: Non-conspiracists could consolidate pertinent info in one place."

Get that? If you don't want the government tax man to see your bank
balance and a record of how many times you've flown to Zurich or the Cayman
Islands, if you don't want the theater manager to see your alimony payments
or your concealed-carry handgun permit, if you don't want your boss to see
your prescription for post-cancer-surgery drugs, if you don't want EVERYONE
to gain a precise accounting of how much you spent last month at
Frederick's of Hollywood, or renting X-rated videos, or shacked up in a
motel room across town, or purchasing alcoholic beverages, or buying
vaginal contraceptive foam (including which brand you prefer), why, you're
just some loony "conspiracist."

But why worry? Digital cash will be great, argues Joshua Cooper Ramo in
the big "Future of Money" piece in the April 27 Time:

"Think about the $2,000 check you send to your daughter at college for
expenses. How is that money really spent? Books ... or beer? Electronic
cash takes that relatively simple transaction -- passing an allowance --
and makes it into a much more intelligent process. ...

"Your daughter can store the money any way she wants -- on her laptop, on
a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted
under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be
spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits to go
for books, some for food and some for movies. Unless you pass along a few
digits that can be cashed at the local pub, she'll have to find someone
else to buy the drinks."

Ha ha. Kind of cute, isn't it? But look again. Isn't the underlying theme
one of "control"? Try substituting a different scenario for Mr. Ramo's. How
about: "Think about the $1,000 Social Security check your agency sends a
retiree in Las Vegas. How is that money really spent? Food and lodging ...
or blackjack, roulette, and Margaritas?"

If the purpose of government retirement insurance is to make sure old
folks have food and a roof over their head, doesn't the government have an
OBLIGATION to "earmark" portions of those checks so they can only be used
to buy certain things, once the new e-cash technology gives them that
capability? Couldn't we set e-cards to freeze a recipient's account if she
tried to use any of the "money" to pay for a second prescription of pain
pills written by a doctor other than her ASSIGNED doctor, or to buy a
naughty book about how to evade taxes, or how to move money into offshore
accounts?

For that matter, what if your boss started earmarking parts of your
electronic paycheck for rent or groceries -- at certain stores that pay for
the consideration -- all "for your own good," you understand? After all,
the kind of soccer moms who elected Bill Clinton can be counted on to favor
almost (start ital)any(end ital) additional Big Brother controls over those
irresponsible men in their lives, frittering away their paychecks on bar
tabs, dirty magazines, power tools, and fancy chrome doo-dads for their
pickup trucks.

Donald S. McAlvany, editor of the economic and geopolitical newsletter
"The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor," is a fellow who has been looking into
the move toward trackable "electronic cash" for some time. The lead article
in the July, 1998 edition of his 16-page newsletter is headlined "Toward a
Cashless Society: Implementing an Electronic Currency in America," and
spells out a very different view of these developing trends from the one
embraced by the jovial publicists at Time:

"The global socialists who dominate America and most of the governments
of the western world today (especially Western Europe) have long had a goal
of moving the world away from the use of cash and into an electronic funds
currency system, wherein virtually all cash in use is 'electronic
currency,' " writes Mr. McAlvany. "If all financial transactions are forced
through an electronic banking system ... the ultimate 'people control'
system could be established. ..."

Citing George Orwell's classic novel "1984," Mr. McAlvany reminds us:
"Privacy is a major element of freedom, without which people and nations
cannot remain free. Today, we have dozens of privacy-destroying systems
being put in place by governments all over the world. They include video
camera surveillance in public places; electronic eavesdropping on
computers, phones and faxes; dozens of computerized files on each adult
American - compiled from credit card, banking, and tax records; physical
surveillance of homes, in whole areas via satellite, helicopters, and other
aircraft; the growing use of Social Security numbers to extract all kinds
of information on Americans from business, banking, and government data
cases; photo IDs required at airports; and the push by the Clinton
Administration for a computerized (smart card) national identification card
for all U.S. citizens.

"But the greatest privacy-destroying system of all, one which would have
made Big Brother's, Adolf Hitler's, Mao's, Lenin's or Stalin's mouths water
is the elimination of cash and the forcing of all citizens into the
computerized banking system for (start ital)all(end ital) transactions.
Ultimately these transactions can be monitored, recorded, profiled, and
used in 'people control.' If all of your personal transactions can be so
tracked, a socialist government bent on identifying, profiling and
controlling its 'politically incorrect' citizens or 'religious fanatics' or
Bible-believing Christians; gun owners; critics of the government; non-tax
compliers, can easily scrutinize and build a profile on such individuals.
It can also, in the absence of a cash-spending alternative, deny the
privilege to buy and sell to those who are politically or religiously
incorrect."

Since one of the main problems banks may have during the anticipated
computer crisis brought about by the turning of the century is clearing
checks written on other banks -- banks whose computers may not agree with
the home bank's "fix" for the transition from year date 99 to year date 00
-- Mr. McAlvany suggests that crisis might present a perfect opportunity to
effectively require bank customers to change over from paper checks to
"electronic cash."

"Remember that during the financial crisis of the 1930s, when Franklin
Roosevelt presented the American people with the alternative of a bank
holiday/gold confiscation/Draconian financial controls (start ital)or(end
ital) financial destruction, they willingly chose the former and gave up a
major portion of their financial freedom."

The removal of cash, of course, will be advertised as having many
benefits. Since drug dealers buy and sell their product with suitcases full
of hundred-dollar bills, it will be alleged that the switch will end the
drug trade (as though a multi-billion-dollar industry won't promptly hire
both fancy accountants and computer geniuses to figure out how to "go
electronic" without throwing blips on the IRS radar screens -- or as though
they won't just add newly "illegal" hundred-dollar bills to the list of
contraband they now freely move outside official channels.)

Expect a public relations campaign to expose the "health hazard" of all
those dirty pennies and nickels you have lying around the house. Passed
from hand to hand among AIDS patients and tuberculosis-ridden junkies, how
can you let your children handle such stuff? Instead, buy Sean and Alysson
a new pair of color-coordinated, his-and-hers Kiddie Smart Cards, which
neatly deduct exactly $1.77 from their accounts when they buy lunch at
school, without burdening them down with filthy, wasteful, inconvenient
(and expensive to produce) coins ... coins they might otherwise save up,
after all, to buy dirty magazines, or reefer, or who knows what else?

Yep, it's all for your health, safety, and convenience. And why would
anyone object ... unless, of course, they had something to (start
ital)hide(end ital). What was your name again? And could I have your
18-digit bank tracking number, please? You (start ital)are(end ital) in
this country legally, aren't you? Not some kind of a federal
fugitive/deadbeat dad? There, that's better. See how easy things are when
you cooperate? Just slide your card through the security/debit slot. Now
pass your wrist over the scanner to make sure your embedded personal chip
has the matching security code. Thank you; you may now move along. We know
you have a choice when you dine out; thank you for patronizing Burger
World.

A full transcript of the "smart card online forum" session referred to at
the beginning of this essay, as well as a biography and smart card white
paper from each chat participant, can be accessed at
http://www.golinharris.com/mastercard.

Subscriptions to The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor ("in no way involved in
the tax resistance, militia, or sovereign citizens movements in the U.S.")
run a substantial $115 per year. Send subscription info to P.O. Box 84904,
Phoenix, Ariz. 85071, or telephone 800-528-0559.

Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas
Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. Vin's
twice-weekly newspaper column, "The Libertarian," is syndicated in the
United States and Canada via Mountain Media Syndications, P.O. Box 4422,
Las Vegas Nev. 89127. Watch for Vin's book, "Send in the Waco Killers,"
coming from Huntington Press in early 1999.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of
new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of
progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying
modes of thought. -- Ludwig von Mises

The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not
get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases
to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and
soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt
against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz, Warsaw, 1943

"A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world-no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." "I have been deceived." "I have betrayed my country."

Americans mull national ID cards

NEW YORK (CNN) -- National identification cards have long been considered an abridgment of freedom in the United States. But public support may be building for them since the September 11 terrorist attacks.

Some 70 percent of the U.S. public supported a system of national ID cards, saying they might help prevent terrorist acts, in a Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey of 1,200 adults in late September soon after the attacks.

The issue has convinced some liberals to support the idea, including famous lawyer and author Alan Dershowitz.

"A limited national ID card, which would have the name, the address, the Social Security number, the photograph and a print fingerprint or retinal print, matchable to a computer chip, would simply make identity theft impossible. It would eliminate the need for any kind of racial or ethnic profiling," said Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor.

But one well-known libertarian think tank, Washington's Cato Institute, does not support the concept.

"The national ID card system is really sort of the ultimate dragnet device," said Tim Lynch, the institute's director of criminal justice studies. "It would require over 250 million Americans to surrender some of their privacy, some of their freedom for a system that I do not think will stop the terrorists from committing acts of violence here against the United States."

The program would not work, Lynch said, because terrorists could bribe card issuers and card inspectors, or they could recruit young people with spotless records.

Such drawbacks have not stopped a host of European countries, including Germany, France and Spain, from adopting ID systems.

In the United States, a massive database would be required for such a system. One computer program company said it would give the software to the government for free.

"We have to give them the tools, databases, cards and the latitude to protect us, and if we do, our liberties and our lives will be saved together," said Larry Ellison, chief executive officer of the California-based Oracle Corp.

Advocates said it would be important to guard against too much information being required or shared. Critics said they predict ID cards would be required at airports first and then additional places in what they call "function creep."

Main Entry: de·tain·ee
Pronunciation: di-"tA-'nE, "dE-
Function: noun
Date: circa 1928
: a person held in custody especially for political reasons

Afghan detainees expected in Cuba

(CNN) -- The first group of detainees are expected to arrive Friday at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Security was tight at the base as troops awaited the 20 detainees' arrival. On Thursday, the detainees - sedated, hooded and chained to their seats - were flown out of Afghanistan aboard a C-17 transport plane. They were flown to an undisclosed location and then transferred to a C-141 transport for the flight to Cuba.

When will the Bush Iron Triangle sedate and hood the domestic political opposition?

The sedated, hooded and chained "detainees" are to be held at a makeshift prison at Guantanamo while U.S. officials determine what to do with them. The humanitarian group Amnesty International issued a statement Thursday afternoon objecting to the heavy restraints used on the prisoners during the flight.

All the detainees are being treated as if they were prisoners of war, although the Pentagon has not declared them as POWs under the Geneva Convention. Some of the prisoners taken to Guantanamo likely will face a military tribunal, a prospect that has generated criticism from civil rights advocates.

The detainees were chained to their seats for the 8,000-mile trip and even barred from using the toilets, with special provisions being made so they would not have to get up. They were shaved from head to toe for hygiene considerations

The Guantanamo base can currently house 100 prisoners but soon will accommodate 2,000.

Former U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey said federal courts have ruled that anyone held at Guantanamo has no constitutional rights, such as the right to legal counsel and others given to criminal defendants.

That correct folks, God Bless Amerika, they can be DETAINED, sedated, hooded, shackled, inhumanely kept from toilets, shaved from head to toe, held on a communist island with Communist/US cooperation

``Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.''
-The constitution of the United States, amendment 13, ratified 1865-Dec-6

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — A Florida technology company is poised to ask the government for permission to market a computer ID chip that could be embedded beneath a person’s skin. For airports, nuclear power plants and other high-security facilities, the immediate benefits would be a closer-to-foolproof security system. But privacy advocates warn that the chip could lead to encroachments on civil liberties.

SEEKING FDA APPROVAL
      Applied Digital, based in Palm Beach, Fla., says it will soon begin the process of getting Food and Drug Administration approval for the device, and intends to limit its marketing to companies that ensure its human use is voluntary.
      “The line in the sand that we draw is that the use of the VeriChip would always be voluntarily,” said Keith Bolton, chief technology officer and a vice president at Applied Digital. “We would never provide it to a company that intended to coerce people to use it.”

WASHINGTON — A company plans to begin selling a computer ID chip that can be embedded beneath people's skin, now that the Food and Drug Administration has said it will not regulate the implant as long as it contains no medical data.

Applied Digital Solutions Inc. designed the VeriChip — about the size of a grain of rice — to hold information that could be read with special electronic scanners. The company has touted the chip as a potential way to hold a person's medical records or security codes.

Applied Digital had heical device chief, Dr. David Feigal, who made clear that the agency could step in at that point.

If someone is unconscious in an emergency room and implanted medical records are outdated, that could be more dangerous than if doctors had no information, he said. Feigal urged companies considering such health-related implants to consult with the FDA.

For now, the VeriChip will bear only an identification number, said David Hughes of Technology Sourcing International, a consulting firm helping Applied Digital in its discussions with the FDA. But that ID code could be cross-referenced with a database to detail any kind of information.

VeriChip emits a radio signal and has been derided by some for its "Big Brother" implications. Applied Digital has said it could prove invaluable in emergency situations when someone is either unconscious or cannot otherwise give information.

VeriChip is expected to sell for about $200. A scanner used to read information contained in the chip would cost between $1,000 and $3,000. A doctor would insert the chip with a large needle-like device.

PALM BEACH, Florida - The Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for Applied Digital Solutions Inc. to begin selling an implantable chip that would contain personal identification and medical data, the company said Thursday.

Applied Digital, Palm Beach, said it had received a letter indicating that the FDA does not consider the chip a medical device under its jurisdiction.

VeriChip, a small device about the size of a grain of rice, emits a radio signal and has been derided by some for its "Big Brother" implications. Applied Digital has said it could prove invaluable in emergency situations when a patient is either unconscious or can't otherwise reveal information.

VeriChip is expected to sell for about dlrs 200. A scanner used to read information contained in the chip would cost between dlrs 1,000 and dlrs 3,000.

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BOCA RATON, Fla. — A Florida family on Friday became the first to be implanted with computer chips that researchers hope will someday become an easy way to provide emergency room staffers with patients' medical information.

Jeff and Leslie Jacobs, along with their 14-year-old son, Derek, had the tiny chips implanted in their arms. Each chip is about the size of a grain of rice, and insertion takes about a minute under local anesthesia.

The chips, called the VeriChip, were designed by Palm Beach-based Applied Digital Solutions Inc. They are similar to chips implanted in pets to identify them if they are lost.

"We're doing this as a security for us, because we've worked so hard to save my husband's life," said Leslie Jacobs, 46.

Her 48-year-old husband has suffered through cancer, a car crash, a degenerative spinal condition, chronic eye disease and abdominal operations. His injuries have forced him to quit his dental practice.

"It's been really easy and I feel a lot better that I have it," he said after the implant.

The chips used by the Jacobs family contain only telephone numbers and information about previous medications. The data can be read by a hand-held computer and printed out.

The Food and Drug Administration said in April that it would not regulate the implant as long as it contains no medical data. Company officials said they were free to proceed because the implant contains identification numbers that correspond to personal medical information in a separate database.

The FDA did not consider the implant to be a medical device, company officials said. An FDA spokeswoman in Miami did not immediately return a phone call. The FDA had said regulation would be needed if medical records were stored to guard against storage of outdated records.

Company officials hope to eventually include more extensive information. The company says it would be particularly valuable for those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease or others with difficulty providing medical information on their own.

VeriChip is expected to sell for about $200. A scanner used to read information contained in the chip would cost between $1,000 and $3,000.

The chip, which could also be used as a security tool, has stirred debate over its potential use as a "Big Brother" device to track people or invade the privacy of their homes or workplaces.

Jacobs and his family brush aside those arguments. Anyone can be tracked through the Internet and e-mail, credit cards and cellular phones, they say.

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A closed-circuit television camera monitors a pedestrian crosswalk in Tampa where police use face-recognition software called FaceIt to compare images of visitors to a mug-shot data base of criminals and suspects.

Jan. 3 -- The Mayo Clinic and Honeywell Laboratories have developed a lie detector based on facial thermal imaging technology.

And better yet Heil Burning Bush-ka will make certain that his lackeys will so conveniently detain up to two thousand of these human animals in their New concentration camps.

JEFFERSON COUNTY - You'll soon have to provide a fingerprint to go shopping in Jefferson County. Consumers using checks or credit cards will have to give their prints to merchants.

It's a new tactic aimed at cracking down on identity theft and catching crooks who use fake IDs. Already, people cashing payroll checks at King Soopers have to give a fingerprint

The touch pads are easy to use and don't leave residue on your finger. Police agencies say the policy has resulted in less check fraud. They are now asking all merchants in the county to require fingerprints.

"The important thing about this to remember is that it doesn't put an honest customer's fingerprint into a database somewhere,” said Sgt. George Hinkle. “The only people that are actually going to have their fingerprints processed are the crooks."

The fingerprints will be kept on file until the transactions clear. If there's a problem, the prints will be passed along to investigators. The new policy will take effect throughout Jefferson County in the next few weeks.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sales of an identification chip intended to be implanted in a person's body will resume immediately now that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its review of the device, the chip's maker Applied Digital Solutions Inc. announced Tuesday.

The company made headlines this spring after a Florida family became the first ever to be implanted with VeriChip. The device, about the size of a grain of rice, is implanted under the skin and works by emitting a radio frequency that transmits a unique verification number.

The company says the chips could eventually replace medical alert bracelets and cards of the sort that alert emergency medical personnel to conditions such as allergies.

Palm Beach, Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions said it received a letter from the FDA ruling that VeriChip is not a regulated medical device "for security, financial and personal identification/safety applications." The decision clears the way for the company to market and distribute VeriChip for those purposes.

Applied Digital said it voluntarily suspended its marketing of the device in the US 5 months ago pending FDA review.

Mayday 2002

The Metropolitan Police are seeking your help to identify and trace the suspects pictured here.

During the past three years, major anti-capitalist demonstrations have taken place in Central London on May Day.

A determined minority in these protests have set out to cause major disruption and commit criminal offences including violent disorder and substantial criminal damage.

Members of the public and police officers have also been injured in these disturbances.

Despite extensive inquiries, which have resulted in a number of successful prosecutions, the Metropolitan Police has still to identify and trace a number of individuals believed to be involved in committing these offences and is seeking your help to do so.

Anyone with information about the identity or whereabouts of any of the people pictured here is asked to call the Public Order Team on 020 7239 7329 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

http://www.afaga.org/GI-5-99.htm

School Vision Screening

Picture of Eye may be used as I.D. - Gives more Information than Retina Scan

The eyes are categorized as sense organs and are specialized parts of the nervous system. As distance receptors, they show us what’s happening at a distance from our bodies. The retina, containing thousands of special cells called rods and cones, is the part of the eye that receives light. There have been rumblings that retina scans* may be used for identification purposes.

While many Georgians have fought vigorously and unsuccessfully to overturn the current requirement for fingerprints on drivers’ licenses, perhaps they have not noticed that the law also allows government to require any other identifying information not listed in the fingerprint law, such as the retina scan and DNA analysis.

Bank United in Texas** has an automatic teller that requires customers to simply look into a specific place on the machine and, eureka, the customer is identified and the machine promptly emits the cash.

But, retina scans aren’t the most comprehensive or the latest method of using eyes for identification purposes. NASA developed a vision screening process that takes a picture of the inner eye by using the state-of-the-art technique of color photorefraction, a spin-off from the Hubbell Telescope technology.

Georgia Connection: 150,000 Students to get New Vision Screening with I.D. capability

The State Board of Education has contracted with Vision Research Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama to use this technology for 150,000 students at a cost of $7.00 each. To pay for it, the legislature appropriated $1,407,729 for 1999 for first and second graders and $591,408 for FY2000. The contract reveals that federal funding covers 50 percent or $525,000 of the $1,050,000. That fact alone reveals the federal interest in photographing student eyes. You may ask, "Why would they do that?"

Consider this . . .

(1) A fingerprint has only 35 identifying factors. The eye has 266. (b) At least one bank is already using the eye as identification for banking transactions. (c) Georgia law allows unlimited requirement for I.D. information on drivers’ licenses. (d) The possibility of a national I.D. card looms closer and closer. (e) A picture of the inner eye is intensely individualistic and may be used for identification purposes.

Who gets the picture of the child’s eye?

Vision Research Corporation keeps the picture and its analysis.
The contract requires them to keep records for five years. The only restriction on dissemination of information is that they must comply with federal and state confidentiality requirements or get permission from the state DOE to sell or otherwise disseminate it.
The federal and state governments that fund the process will, obviously, get the picture and analysis.
Schools will receive results on each child.
A call to Vision Research revealed that pictures are sent to schools to be kept in each child’s record.
Parents will be sent individual printed results sheets but no mention is made of their receiving the picture.
The Department of Education receives a final report and a statistical summary along with other information.

The contract states, "That all reports, graphs, drawings, computer disks, specification, estimates, and other data prepared by the Contractor under the terms of this Agreement shall be delivered to, become and remain the property of the Department [of Education] upon termination or completion of the work."

ALSO, "The Department shall have the right to use the same without restriction or limitation and without compensation to the Contractor other than that provided for in this Agreement. The Contractor shall not have the right to use same for sale or other benefit without express written permission from the Department."

NOTE: (1) The State Department of Education (DOE) receives information obtained by Vision Research.

(2) The DOE has unrestricted use of the information.

(3) The DOE may give Vision Research permission to sell the information.

*Retina scans measure retina and optic nerve topography but this technology uses color photorefraction, a by-product of the Hubbell Telescope technology. This new process gives far more information of the entire eye than retina scans do.

**In reporting the Bank United story in his May 14 radio commentary, Paul Harvey pointed out that the human eye has 266 distinguishable characteristics compared to a fingerprint’s mere 35 identifiable points.

Georgia Insight 3 May 1999

Yes they will have that Identification Data Base whether the United States wants it or not. The Bush-ka Administration may be the last presidency of the Republic of Freedom.

Robert --

Thank you for bringing the "Georgia Insight" May 1999 article to our attention. Please be aware that the insinuations of that article and the general premise of your email are incorrect, as are various key "facts" cited there.

People are free to believe what they want, but if you're looking for the truth, this isn't it.

The program you are referring to has no other purpose than to identify vision problems that can adversely affect children. It has found tens of thousands of children with vision problems, and it has made a difference that will benefit them for a lifetime.

Jim Kennemer

STEP UP TO THE BEAST - LOOK INTO ITS FACE - GET FED
Couldn't be a more direct mind control/pavlovian dog effect on children than
this to condition them to compromise their bodies and personal information
to the state. These are GLOBAL programs. In the schools they are already
using retina biometrics for the children to get their lunches and library
materials at school.

Bushs "No Child Left Behind" also is demanding school database information
for draft purposes, as well as all the other "human managment" programs they
have planned for us - the schools don't get the federal money unless they
comply

ALL information gathered now is shared - there is NO private database)

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Take everyone's DNA fingerprint, says pioneer

By Steve Connor in Long Island, New York

Everybody in Europe and the US should have their genetic fingerprints entered into an international database to enable law enforcement agencies to fight crime and terrorism in an unstable world, according to James Watson, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix.

In an exclusive interview with The Independent to mark the 50th anniversary of his discovery, the scientist said the risks posed by terrorists and organised criminals now outweighed the possible objections on civil liberties grounds to a DNA database.

"It is not that I am insensitive to the concerns about individual privacy or to the potential for inappropriate use of genetic information, but it would make life safer," Professor Watson, the president of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, said.

As the first director of the Human Genome Project, Professor Watson set aside funds to examine the potential ethical concerns relating to the misuse of genetic information. DNA fingerprints, which do not contain medical information and are merely used to establish a person's identity, pose fewer threats, he said.

"The sacrifice of this particular form of anonymity does not seem an unreasonable price to pay, provided the laws see to a strict and judicious control over access to public data," he said. "It would be harder to be a crook. If you want to make the criminal justice system more fair, what's wrong with it?"

Europe and the US could introduce such a database relatively cheaply and easily, he said. "It's hard to imagine that in 100 years from now we won't have it. With the increase in terrorism, we want to know who people are."

Many people might object out of an irrational fear of DNA, which has a "voodoo quality", he admitted. "A lack of understanding of genetic complexities leaves one susceptible to the worst anxieties and conspiracy theories."

Professor Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University, who developed DNA fingerprinting in the 1980s, also called for a national DNA database for crime fighting in a speech last year at the Science Festival. Since its development, the fingerprinting technique has become one of the most powerful tools in forensic science.

he painless procedure barely lasted 15 minutes. In his South Florida office, Dr. Harvey Kleiner applied a local anesthetic above the tricep of my right arm, then he inserted a thick needle deep under the skin.

''First we locate a prime spot,'' he said. ''The next thing is to release the button that triggers the injection mechanism, and that's it, the cargo's been delivered.''

The ''cargo'' was a half-inch-long microchip inside a glass and silicone cylinder that carries my permanent identification number. For an instant, I remembered the famous scene in the movie ''Fantastic Voyage'' in which a miniaturized Raquel Welch and her companions are inserted, submarine and all, into the vein of a patient. In my case, the tiny chip inside me can transmit personal information to anyone with a special handheld scanner.

Theoretically, this VeriChip will allow doctors to call up my medical records even if I'm too badly hurt to answer questions. It is also supposed to allow me to get money from an automatic teller machine by flashing my arm instead of punching in my PIN number. Or reassure airport security that I am a journalist, not a terrorist.

And, though the VeriChip strikes critics as Orwellian, its makers think the surgically implanted IDs could be the Social Security numbers of the future in a nervous world.

''I believe the day will come when most of us will have something similar to the VeriChip under our skin,'' said Scott Silverman, president of Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions. ''People will regard that its benefits -- in terms of financial, security, and health care -- far outweigh the possibility of loss of privacy.''

Right now, I am part of a very small club, the 18th person in the world -- and the first journalist -- to get ''chipped.'' Most of the others are ADS employees along with one Florida family who have been jokingly dubbed ''the Chipsons'' in a play on the old Jetsons cartoon.

The idea of a system that gives emergency workers and others immediate access to potentially lifesaving information is exactly what drew the Jacobs family of Boca Raton to the VeriChip. At the request of their 14-year-old son, Derek, the Jacobses got chipped last year.

''My husband has cancer and we've experienced the frustrating delays of trying to provide urgent medical history information every time he is rushed into the emergency room,'' says Leslie Jacobs.

Since the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, she continues, ''we know that our lives are increasingly vulnerable. If we want increased safety, security, and peace of mind, we need to take positive steps. We've decided that having a VeriChip is one way to do just that.''

But critics see surveillance technology like the VeriChip as a growing threat, giving potentially dangerous new power to businesses and government alike. In a report issued in January by the American Civil Liberties Union, Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt warned that an explosion of technology has already created a ''surveillance monster.''

''Scarcely a month goes by in which we don't read about some new high-tech way to invade people's privacy, from face recognition to implantable microchips, data mining, DNA chips, and even `brain wave fingerprinting,' '' they wrote. ''The fact is there are no longer any technical barriers to the Big Brother regime portrayed by George Orwell [in his novel `1984'].''

The VeriChip is similar to the more than 25 million chips already embedded in animals all over the world acting as ''pet passports,'' allowing customs officials to monitor those animals that do not need to go into quarantine, or to identify your stray dog.

But, at least for now, the VeriChip does much less: it's mainly for demonstration purposes, carrying only an identification number and the capacity for about three paragraphs of information. Only 10 hospitals and doctors in Florida have the scanner to read the chips. And the Food and Drug Administration has not yet approved the chips for use in health care, so they cannot be used to access medical records.

However, ADS officials say this is just the beginning. They want to build a chip that can store loads of information, or act as the key to a central database that stores information about the user. Ultimately, the company hopes to be able to track the movement of people with chips worldwide using global positioning satellites.

The company is field testing its Personal Locator Device, or PLD, which ADS says could help track lost children, sick elderly family members, mountain climbers who get lost, or kidnap victims. Company officials say they have been inundated with requests from private companies in Latin America, especially Mexico and Colombia.

The PLD is still years away from wide use, according to Keith Bolton, ADS's chief of technologies. The working prototype is rather large -- 2 1/2 inches in diameter -- and would require major surgery for implantation (though it appears some Israeli secret service agents already carry something similar). It is powered by a pacemaker battery, and, just like in a Tom Clancy book, it would let anyone with access to the PLD system follow the wearer anytime, anywhere in the world, at the click of a mouse.

''The PLD would also monitor the vital signs of the wearer, and the environmental conditions around that person, and it could be a great way to protect a family member with a disease such as Alzheimer's,'' says Bolton.

Businesses already use technology to track their products around the world, but we should stop and think about the implications before starting a human tracking system, cautions Mohan Tanniru, professor of information systems at the University of Arizona.

''I am not going to put a chip on my kid thinking that she could be kidnapped,'' he says, ''unless I know the chip will be activated only if I report that my kid is lost. But how do I know that the police are only going to activate it when I say so, and not when they feel like it? You can't just say that technology is bad just because it is there. So it is a matter of deciding what trusting agency should be given that responsibility.''

Tanniru actually thinks that human tracking might be welcome in certain cases, such as following criminals on probation or making sure foreign nationals don't overstay their visas. In fact, Pro Tech Monitoring of Tampa already makes an externally worn tracking device for parolees that alerts authorities if the wearer enters a forbidden area, such as a school zone.

For ADS's Silverman, both the VeriChip and its future GPS-based version are a matter of individual choice.

''No one is forcing you to have a VeriChip. If you want a chip in your right arm you are going to know it is there because you will see it injected. When you look at the events of 9/11 and the way people measure their own personal security today versus the way they did a few years ago, there is a much higher concern to make sure that family members are safe and sound, and some people now put that above privacy rights.''

So far, ADS's technology gamble has not translated into profits. In 2002, ADS lost $112 million on revenues of $96 million, though this loss is significantly lower that that of the previous year.

As far as I am concerned, having a chip with a code in it is not giving me the chills. I think it would be nice to use it to get cash or pay for gas, and I wouldn't mind paramedics having access to my health records in the blink of an eye. Besides, I know it would never get lost. I did, however, have a few questions about its health hazards. So I asked Dr. Kleiner.

''The VeriChip is extremely safe,'' he says. ''Pacemakers are hundreds of times larger and more complicated and nobody has problems with them. To prevent the chip from migrating to another part of the body there is a little polymer at one end of the capsule that will adhere to the skin and hold it in place.

At his office, my arm was like a barcoded product at a supermarket cash register: It beeped every time the scanner prodded the chip. It worked even through my clothes. Displayed on the screen was a long number with many zeroes. For good or bad, I thought, this chip may be quietly heralding a time when people will literally have technology under the skin.

Oracle chief's proposal raises constitutional, feasibility issues

Support grows for Ellison's national ID card proposal

HONG KONG POLICE

THESE ARE PART OF 20,000,000 TROOPS TO SOON COME INTO USA TO "PACIFY" USA

Focusing on biometrics at Comdex

Body of data: Eyeballing security

FBI confirms 'Magic Lantern' spy project

Step beyond 'Carnivore'?

Americans mull national ID cards

Various Identification Schemes

Afghan detainees expected in Cuba

Mayday 2002

Take everyone's DNA fingerprint, says pioneer

By Steve Connor in Long Island, New York