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NewsreleaseDate:
2004-10-29
For Immediate Release: A True American News Exclusive
Copyright October 26, 2004 (cleared for redistribution with TAN attribution)
KERRY PLANS NATIONAL ID CARD FOR ALL AMERICANS
Move Means The End Of All Privacy In The U.S. - Deliberately Hidden From Kerry Campaign Speeches
by Steve Curnow
"John Kerry is a bigger threat to American freedom than Saddam Hussein ever was."
-Thurman Boyd Hayes
Dateline Columbus, Ohio: Thousands of college students, and aging hippie radicals, throng the OSU Oval at Ohio State University waiting for their man of the hour to take the stage here on what will most likely be the last visit the Kerry Campaign makes to the Buckeye state. But, I seriously wonder how many of the young college girls with their "groovy Kerry" psychedelic buttons of the candidate, when he was a moppy haired war protester, would still have those buttons pinned on their tight little sweaters if they knew what Kerry will force them to carry in their hip hugger jeans if he's elected.
Following an investigation by TAN, first announced across the Internet last week, it is now clear that presidential candidate John Kerry has meant to secretly pursue an agenda to force all U.S. citizens to carry a national ID card. Although his intent in this direction was initially broached by questioning by NBC's Tom Brokaw, Kerry has failed to mention it ever again since, and no other media has brought it up (see http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5489537/ ), leaving this explosive issue to become part and parcel of an obvious stealth agenda hidden from the scrutiny of the American People.
A national ID card (see http://www.privacy.org/pi/activities/idcard/idcard_faq.html#6 ) is seen by privacy advocates, and most Americans, as an intrusive invasion of personal privacy and a de facto throw back to the days of Nazi Germany (see http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/removing-facilitating-factors/IDcards/samples/index.htm#germany , http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/nationalidsystem-resources.html ). Groups as diverse as conservatives and the ACLU (see http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200110\CUL20011011b.html , http://archive.aclu.org/issues/privacy/National_ID_Feature.html , http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/presidentltr2.11.02.html ) all agree that the national ID card is a bad idea (see http://www.akdart.com/idcard.html ). Following the attacks of 9/11, billionaire Larry Ellison tried to persuade the Bush administration to introduce his idea of a national ID card (see http://www.templetons.com/brad/oracard.html ) as a tool against terrorism (see http://www.drudgereport.com/id.htm ) but both the President and Ashcroft decided against it, saying that it was not needed to fight terrorism and would be an unwarranted invasion of privacy. In fact, many Christians compare the idea to the biblical "Mark of the Beast".
What is amazing is that it is actually liberal progressives who have attacked the Patriot Act as being a violation of civil liberties but then have a covert agenda of backing even more intrusive national ID schemes. One example of this is the Progressive Policy Institute, a liberal think tank that is linked to the Democratic Leadership Council (see http://www.ppionline.org/cobrand/contact_us.cfm ), wants all Americans tracked (see http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?contentid=252912&knlgAreaID=140&subsecid=900017 ).
The issue was brought up out of nowhere during Brokaw's early summer interview with Kerry, Brokaw, asking "Do you think that there will be … a need for national ID of some kind?" to which Kerry answered, "It's very possible. I — it's something that's been talked around for a long period of time."
Thurman Boyd Hayes, political analyst, reacted with shock. "I was completely taken aback," he said about Kerry's response. "I mean, I thought that it was a dead issue. I think most Americans thought so, and here Kerry is replying to what seems to have been a question that was deliberate and preplanned, because Kerry answered without missing beat, as if he were ready for it."
Privacy experts are all completely against the idea, and web sites have sprung up all over the Internet warning of efforts to create a national id card by creating a national driver's license (see http://www.petitiononline.com/NO_ID/petition.html ).
Brokaw brought up the objections concerning invasion of privacy and Kerry just shrugged them off.
"A lot of people think that's an interference with your basic civil liberties. That the government ought not to have — access to your personal life and on file somewhere?", Brokaw said.
Kerry replied, "Well, it — it ought to be studied and analyzed properly. It depends on what the safeguards are, obviously. But people run around with credit cards that have their photographs on it, passports that have photographs and identification numbers in them and driver's licenses that have photographs on them.
"I mean there's enough information," he continued, " — any American who thinks there isn't already this incredible bank of information isn't keeping up with what's happened. I think it's important to protect people's rights and protect civil liberties. And I believe this administration has not struck the right balance between protecting our Constitutional rights in America and making America safe. And that's something that John and I will continue to talk about as we go forward."
"You talk about flip-flopping," Thurman responded when watching the video again. Here this man's allies are calling the Patriot Act this massive intrusion and violation of civil liberties and it doesn't even effect everybody. It could be used against anybody, under certain circumstances, but that's different from a blanket action that would effect everybody. A national ID card is worse than the Patriot Act, it won't stop terrorism - that's a lie, and once that happens, Americans will no longer be free. Period.
"Make no mistake about it, "Hayes continued, "if John Kerry is elected, Americans will witness the end of our country as a free society. I wish everyone could read "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley before election day, and then think about what we're facing now, because in order to get to a society like that, from a free one like we've had, you need to do things like ban private ownership of firearms, like Kerry secretly plans to do, and you need tracking systems like a national ID card. What Americans don't understand is that once you're track-able, without any alternatives, then you are in an electronic prison. It's what the correction system already does to prisoners that are under home arrest. Do you get it? These guys are track-able and only allowed to do what the corrections systems allow them to do. John Kerry's national ID card will do the same thing to all of us. It is the end of freedom. Between this and his stealth opposition to the 2nd Amendment (see http://www.nrapublications.org/ff/against_Kerry.asp ), his constant lying about what his obvious real agenda is, in my opinion, based upon the facts as they have been proved, John Kerry is a bigger threat to American freedom than Saddam Hussein ever was. The fact that he's never really brought his support of this idea out into the open proves that he and his handlers, like Joe Lockhart and the rest of the Clinton bunch, know that the American People would leave the Kerry camp in droves if they knew this was what he planned. This proves that John Kerry is duping the American People into supporting an agenda that they are completely unaware of."
Michelle Barnes, who has done research for government officials, interested in Homeland Security issues, had this to say about a national ID card as a tool to stop terrorism - "I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Let's say there's a foreign terrorist, newly recruited by Al Qaida but unknown to the intelligence community and law enforcement. He comes to the U.S. where all Americans now have these cards and so he can't pretend to be an American. Big deal. There are any number of ways that such an individual can commit an act of terror inside of 24 hours of getting here, before anyone could do anything to stop him. The only way a national ID card would stop foreign based terrorism is if you couldn't be in the country period if you didn't have one, and everyone knows that that's not going to happen. Kerry is completely appalling, and when I saw him say he was for a national ID card, I switched my vote. I was leaning in his direction for a while but now I know for sure, he has no credibility at all. Disgusting."
(Distributed by World.Net.News "the news edge on the Net")
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