I hate to trigger Godwin's Law so soon (though somebody else already did it), but are there any Bay Area tattoo shops that want to volunteer to help with the National ID numbers? At 12:40 AM 09/24/2001 -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:

Matt Drudge writes: http://www.drudgereport.com/id.htm

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A proposal for the creation of a national ID card was presented to President Bush in recent days, top government sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/ellsn092301.htm

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``We need a national ID card with our photograph and thumbprint digitized and embedded in the ID card,'' Ellison said in an interview Friday night on the evening news of KPIX-TV in San Francisco. ``We need a database behind that, so when you're walking into an airport and you say that you are Larry Ellison, you take that card and put it in a reader and you put your thumb down and that system confirms that this is Larry Ellison,'' he said. [...] ``We're quite willing to provide the software for this absolutely free,'' he said.

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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:49:33 -0700 To: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh) From: David Theroux <DTheroux@independent.org> Subject: Ellison and ID cards

Dear Declan,

According to Drudge, Larry Ellison is now offering to donate the technology to create a national ID card. What else would we expect from a firm that was created by the CIA:

http://beta.kpix.com/news/scripts/fri5pm.htm#77tz:_Ellison

Best regards,

David