Though some will petulantly claim that this has "nothing to do with crypto," I think the report on legislation which may lead to new levels of national identification is very apropos to the themes of this list. A national ID card could be tied in to the CDA and other such legislation: the "Internet Driver's License" we are worried about. This would also facilitate the criminalization of anonymous remailers. (I noticed at a local night spot large posters announcing the city's "Zero Tolerance" policy for passing a drink to a minor. Imagine the same folks passing laws about the criminalization of giving access to a minor....) Here's the forwarded article:

Path: we.got.net!news.oz.net!newshub.internex.net!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!overload.lbl.gov!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!usenet From: klynch@intrepid.net Newsgroups: misc.survivalism Subject: The Law Loft: Surviving the Biometric I.D. Card Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:34:25 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Lines: 148 Message-ID: <4ir7hj$391@nntp.texas.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: klynch.intrepid.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82

-------------------------------- Here is the latest Alert from The Law Loft. Sorry its late.

If you are benifitting by this information, please don't just keep it to yourself - share it with someone immediately. And perhaps you can Fax Suzanne and Pete a thank you and ask them what you can do to help.

This work is pretty lonely and grinding. And oh so few ever thank you for it. Of course that's not why their doing it.

Many of you could do the same thing I'm doing. You can listen to 7.435 MHz at 8:00 pm EST and take notes from The Law Loft. You can FAX them a request to send you information. You can then pass it on to others.

When you don't see anything from me out here, you can pitch in and do it. This is late, because I had no other choice but to catch an early train.

Throw away the "boob" tube and stop wasting your precious little time that we have left to learn and work together. Invest in a good Short-Wave radio with a built in tape machine. I use the Radio Shack DX-392 portable receiver. NO LICENSE REQUIRED TO LISTEN.

Check out other fine alternative news programs on 5.065 between 6:00 pm EST and 12:00 midnight week nights.

Please help us - do your little part.

For Freedom, Kerry http://www.intrepid.net/~klynch/uslaws.html --------------------------------------------- H.R. 2202 Immigration Bill

Special Alert II

March 19, 1996 [Please note this date when reading - Kerry] * * * * * * * *

H. RES. 384 bringing H.R. 2202 and 17 proposed amendments to the floor passed today in the House. Debate on the bill and amendments continues tomorrow. Vote on amendment number 4 is expected tomorrow:

The picture in the House of Representatives grows darker. H.R. 384 bringing H.R. 2202, the Immigration bill, to the floor for a vote along with 17 proposed amendments passed easily by wide majority in today's session.

Work on amendments including Congressman McCullum's amendment no. 4 will start up again tomorrow. We estimate that the vote on amendment number 4 will occur about 3:00 pm EST.

Both the House and Senate bills are intended to bring us some form of universal biometric identifier i.d. card either in the form of a new social security card or a passport linked to biometric identifier birth certificates and drivers' licenses:

The House bill, H.R. 2202, if passed will bring in the biometric identifier slowly with greater subtlty than the Senate version. The biometric identifier is clearly in the picture here. Here's why:

1) The report of the U.S. Commission on Immigration entitled U.S. Immigration Policy: Restoring Credibility talks openly about the use of biometric identifiers for driver's licenses on page 65. Key language throughout the report dealing with fraudulent use of identifying documents also leads to only one place - introduction of the biometric identifier form of identification.

2) The NarcOfficer, official publication of international narcotics enforcement officer association in its September/October 1995 issues states point blank that a universal biometric identifier system is intended for use by everyone on the planet.

3) The Senate bill formerly S. (unumbered) now split into S. 269 and S. 1361 in sections 111-116 talks about birth certificates with ‘fingerprint or other biometric data'. The same section talks about new driver's licenses with ‘fingerprint or other item of biometric data'.

4) The Hoke Amendment to H.R. 2202 added by the House Judiciary Committee talks about a ‘demonstration pilot project with a reliable, easy to use, confirmation mechanism'.

5) The McCullum amendment, no.4 on the calendar of amendments to H.R. 2202 talks about creating an official document that ‘offers the best possible security against counterfeiting, forgery, alteration, and misuse'. And provides for creating a new social security card that would be ‘as secure against fraudulent use as United States passport'. Part of the catch here is which version of the passport? The Senate bill provides for the creation of anew fraud resistant passport.

The McCullum amendment would make the new technology binding on all social security cards issued after January 1, 1999. Beginning on January 1, 2006, all employers would be required to verify employment eligibility with the new social security card.

Any way you cut it, this is too much authority to invest in any government!

Our founding fathers knew that only way to be free and remain free is to constrain the power of the government. As John Dickinson said in 1768 in Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania: "For who are a free people? Not those, over whom government is reasonably and equitably exercised, but those, who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision is made against it being otherwise exercised".

Creation of a mandatory, universal biometric identifier identification system lets the genie out of the bottle. It would gut the 4th Amendment's right of provacy and let the government surveil and control us instead of vice versa.

What to do now:

We need at least 100,000 phone calls and faxes in Washington by tomorrow. We may not win in the House but we have to try. Remember if we build up steam now in the House our chances will be better later in the Senate.

Contact your congressman tonight by fax (best) or tomorroww by phone (good). Argue with him, politely. He might think that just because amendment 4 says it won't be used as a universal identifier, that amendment 4 and the bill are okay. Remind him what happened to the social security card. It was supposed to be voluntary too in the beginning.

As time permits, contact as many congressmen as you can in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, and Illinois. These congressmen are going to be under especially heavy pressure to pass the bill no matter what it says. You can use the toll-free numbers for your call: (800) 962-3524, (800) 972-3524, or (800) 872-8513.

Tell them we want to keep the 4th Amendment to the Constitution and the only way to do that is to kill the 4th amendment to the bill. Tell them that we are not at all amused by the hidden joke of using an amendment 4 to kill the 4th Amendment to our Constitution. No, no, no to any version of the biometric identifier! Vote no to H.R. 2202!

Suzanne Harris The Law Loft Los Angelos, CA (818)-305-7613 7.435 MHz (Short-Wave) 8:00 pm EST Week nights.