[Pc_Support] Re: Identity Theft to be even harder to fight with new ID card ... (CLARIFICATION)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 17:53 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Furthermore, I actually trust portions of the federal government and
> those who ensure its national security.  They are Americans who stand up
> for their rights, and put perspective into everything they do.
> But I've found that Banks do not, will not and continually wish to apply
> uneven, double-standard law to their business and innocent Americans.
> Same deal with the media as well.

Okay, I just re-read that and it sounds scary.

What I mean is that as long as checks'n balances play into the federal
government, it works well.  Even the Patriot Act is legislative and has
Congressional oversight.  President Bush has been careful enough to make
things legislative and not just executive orders -- and several here can
quote me when I noted that Bill Clinton made some whoppers of executive-
only orders in 1998 to fight terrorism -- terms that are now in the
Patriot Act.

And no matter how "conservative" or "liberal" the Supreme Court justices
get, they will strike down things that go against the Constitution.
Sometimes it takes several iterations of a legislative law before they
recognize temporarily legislation is permanent, as they try not to enact
legislative-type rulings, but they come through for us, the people,
everytime.  And sometimes the media helps out to bring things to our
attention.

But Banks are seemingly and continually in circular cohorts with each
other.  I have seen it too many times, and a new ID card used for
financial transactions merely means that anything collected on and for
it will be _misused_ and _stolen_ via our financial networks.
Ultimately its a problem with the federal government in general, that
they mandate such information collection -- it will be abused by those
non-government agencies who have the power to access it.

As far as the media, they have a conflict of interest in this matter,
and most other, so-called, "digital rights" matters.  I honestly think
the federal government is the least of our issues in this matter,
although they are the only ones who can stop it.  By passing these laws,
every American citizen will gain the same lack of rights as if they were
a criminal.

And their collected information will be used against them by
unscruptulous individuals in the financial and media industries far more
than the federal government.  You _know_ they are behind this.


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Bryan J. Smith                                 b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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