You thought things were scary in this country now? It'll only get worse if the legislation mentioned in the link passes in Congress. It is a direct response to the findings of the 9-11 Commission Report. Me? I think it's still got too many holes in it...lots of innocent people are going to get caught in this quagmire, and we're talking about law-abiding citizens who maybe disagree in public about national policy or who practice a Middle Eastern religion.
"Say nothing, do nothing and nothing will happen to you." Here comes the Patriot Act 3.
An aside: If you try to obtain credit today and decline to provide your social security number on the form, you will be denied credit (and probably be put on some terrorist list). When the Social Security Act was created in 1938 or so, use of the SS# was limited to reporting on a person's wages to determine how much social security they are entitled to when they retire. For the longest time, we were told that our SS#s were not supposed to be used as ID verification. Now, even newborns are given SS#. You know why? Because the government wants to track your whereabouts from the time you're born, that's why. To claim a child on your tax return, what do you need to provide? That child's SS#.
After I had my little epiphany while trying to buy a $2k bed (and I could have paid cash for it, but wanted to use someone else's money for 6 months, interest free), I went to the SS site and lo and behold, within the last 3 years, the SS Act has been amended so that financial institutions can require that you provide a social security number for any banking transactions. And if you want to make a hefty down payment or pay for a house in cash, they want you to verify where that money came from and they will actually hold up a loan until they can verify where the money came from (they are checking to see if you're a drug lord). If you're over 12 and don't have a SS# yet, when you apply for the number, the SSA will come out and interview you to make sure you're who you say you are. And you can't get any kind of job in the US without having a SS#.
We don't have a national ID card yet, but they are getting very serious about having one in England (this is not the same as your passport, which as we all know, can be forged). Maybe that microchip in the palm is not such a farfetched notion after all...although the number of people walking around with no right hands (there might be a black market for those chips) will grow exponentially. Not to be irreverent or anything, but some people might call that "the mark of the beast".
Read here for some commentary on the new "Patriot Act III" Bill that was just introduced in Washington DC this morning.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092504V.shtml
Miulang
"Say nothing, do nothing and nothing will happen to you." Here comes the Patriot Act 3.
An aside: If you try to obtain credit today and decline to provide your social security number on the form, you will be denied credit (and probably be put on some terrorist list). When the Social Security Act was created in 1938 or so, use of the SS# was limited to reporting on a person's wages to determine how much social security they are entitled to when they retire. For the longest time, we were told that our SS#s were not supposed to be used as ID verification. Now, even newborns are given SS#. You know why? Because the government wants to track your whereabouts from the time you're born, that's why. To claim a child on your tax return, what do you need to provide? That child's SS#.
After I had my little epiphany while trying to buy a $2k bed (and I could have paid cash for it, but wanted to use someone else's money for 6 months, interest free), I went to the SS site and lo and behold, within the last 3 years, the SS Act has been amended so that financial institutions can require that you provide a social security number for any banking transactions. And if you want to make a hefty down payment or pay for a house in cash, they want you to verify where that money came from and they will actually hold up a loan until they can verify where the money came from (they are checking to see if you're a drug lord). If you're over 12 and don't have a SS# yet, when you apply for the number, the SSA will come out and interview you to make sure you're who you say you are. And you can't get any kind of job in the US without having a SS#.
We don't have a national ID card yet, but they are getting very serious about having one in England (this is not the same as your passport, which as we all know, can be forged). Maybe that microchip in the palm is not such a farfetched notion after all...although the number of people walking around with no right hands (there might be a black market for those chips) will grow exponentially. Not to be irreverent or anything, but some people might call that "the mark of the beast".
Read here for some commentary on the new "Patriot Act III" Bill that was just introduced in Washington DC this morning.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092504V.shtml
Miulang
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