Larry Ellison's ID card idea attracts high-level support
Matthew Gaylor
freematt at coil.com
Wed Oct 17 10:38:27 PDT 2001
[Note from Matthew Gaylor: Considering that the show your papers
routine had already been implemented complete with yellow Star of
David armbands, I'm one civil libertarian who will never "come
around".]
<http://www0.mercurycenter.com/local/center/id101701.htm>
Posted at 10:53 p.m. PDT Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001
ID card idea attracts high-level support
Top executives, lawmakers back national identification card proposal
BY ELISE ACKERMAN AND PAUL ROGERS
Mercury News
Silicon Valley software mogul Larry Ellison's proposal to create a
national ID card has gained substantial ground -- and the interest of
top Bush administration officials -- in a signal that the
controversial idea may be closer to reality than ever.
In an interview with the Mercury News on Tuesday night, Ellison, the
chairman and CEO of Oracle, said he met with U.S. Attorney General
John Ashcroft and officials at the CIA and FBI in Washington, D.C.,
over the past week to discuss the idea. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
D-Calif., has endorsed it, other tech executives have jumped on board
and even some prominent civil libertarians have said the idea is
worth pursuing.
[...]
``You don't give up much,'' Dershowitz said. ``Civil libertarians
will come around.''
[...]
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