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Forum Name Latest Breaking News
Topic subject Emergency Alert: National ID/Patriot Act 2 Legislation On Verge Of Passing
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1053179#1053179
1053179, Emergency Alert: National ID/Patriot Act 2 Legislation On Verge Of Passing
Posted by theearthisround on Wed Dec-08-04 02:50 AM

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/07120...

At approximately 3:30pm today, Ron Paul's press secretary Jeff Deist called Alex Jones to warn him that the legislation that encompasses the national ID card and Patriot Act 2 provisions was on the verge of passing the House tonight.

Deist stated that the bill and what it means for America could be described in a word as 'tyranny'.

Deist's tone was the most frantic that Alex had ever known in his years of communication with Ron Paul's office. Alex made it clear how upset Desit was and that the situation reminded him of a 'war room atmosphere'. Deist and Ron Paul are desperate to mobilize the alternative media before the bill reaches the Senate tomorrow.

There is still a chance that we can shoot down the national ID card provisions before the bill is passed in full.

Deist went on to exclaim his disbelief at how the so-called conservative Bush administration had betrayed America and how Paul's colleagues on Capitol Hill were blindly going along with this and doing whatever Bush tells them to do without question.

For the past two days mainstream news articles have talked of a 'compromise' which was made with the few dissenting voices and that the bill would be steamrolled through.

However, those articles fail to mention the very worst aspects of the bill, instead pitching it as a mere reformation of intelligence communication and protocol.

PLEASE CALL YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE RIGHT NOW AND VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION TO THIS BILL.

The bill is S 2845 or 'intelligence reform' and the sub-section with the national ID card provisions is 7212.

Tell your congressman to get the federal mandates for standardized drivers licenses out of the bill.

According to Deist, the bill would not only introduce the national ID card, but make it mandatory to have a job as well as setting up internal checkpoints in the USA.


Further

Action Alert from Ron Pauls Liberty Committee
http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/alert/?alertid=6739451...

"If you were a member of Congress, would you vote "yes" on a 3,000 page bill that you never had a chance to read? Most reasonable people wouldn't. Most reasonable people would want to read and study legislation before deciding how to vote; especially legislation as monumental as the intelligence reorganization legislation or the so-called 9/11 bill."

Further

http://www.libertythink.com / Has the Nov 20 Draft of this Bill + analysis

http://www.libertythink.com/2004/12/exclusive-full-text...

# TITLE I: Establishes superpowerful National Intelligence Director lording over integrated foreign & domestic apparatus -- Detailed anaylsis
# TITLE II: Role of FBI in domestic intelligence
# TITLE III: Attack on financial privacy, including repeal of one PATRIOT Act sunset - more
# TITLE IV Data-mining of air passengers; codifying mandatory ID for air passengers; biometrics for govt agents in aviation system; more advanced screening hardware for airports: "walk-through explosive detection portals, document scanners, shoe scanners, and backscatter x-ray scanners"
# TITLE V: Cosmetic immigration reforms
# TITLE VI: Expands definition of "terrorist" even further, allows holding of "terror suspects" without trial; more spying on international transactions
# TITLE VII: table of contents, part one, part two -- Misc. pork for foreign muslim psy-ops; Misc. homeland pork & bureaucracies; biometric borders; integratred biometric screening system with drivers' licenses as biometric national ID cards
# TITLE VIII: Homeland Security satellites, human research