[NYTr] Chertoff: You Will Submit to the Control Grid (Nimmo)

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Another Day in the Empire - Aug 16, 2007
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Chertoff: You Will Submit to the Control Grid

by Kurt Nimmo

On occasion, our rulers tip their hands a bit too much, especially when
confronted with the recalcitrance of subjects in resistance to their
best laid plans. “Americans may need passports to board domestic
flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one
of the states defying the federal Real ID Act,” reports CNN. “The
Department of Homeland Security insists Real ID is an essential weapon
in the war on terror, but privacy and civil liberties watchdogs are
calling the initiative an overly intrusive measure that smacks of Big
Brother.”

The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation warn “the IDs and
supporting databases” mandated by Real ID legislation “will infringe on
privacy.” The EFF “says on its Web site that the information in the
databases will lay the groundwork for ‘a wide range of surveillance
activities’ by government and businesses that ‘will be able to easily
read your private information’ because of the bar code required on each
card.” Of course, that would be simply the beginning, as our rulers
plan to eventually use biometric technology and not simply a bar code.
Moreover, the Real ID scheme will not be limited to the United States.
Back in 2005, BlueBear Network International announced “it has extended
its exclusive licensing of facial recognition and secure distributed
search technology from Ottawa-based VisionSphere Technologies, to offer
State motor vehicle agencies the ability to link driver’s license
databases between all U.S. states, Canada and Mexico—as proposed by the
sweeping REAL ID Act approved by Congress this month,” Prime Newswire
reported at the time. “VisionSphere Technology has developed technology
to securely search multiple biometric databases…. The unique technology
uses secure internet connections to link and biometric databases
maintained anywhere in the world. BlueBear, as the exclusive licensee,
adapts that technology for law enforcement by building applications for
forensic identification, background checks and the fight against child
exploitation.”

Naturally, in order to protect the children, fight crime, and remain
vigilant against “al-Qaeda,” we will need surrender our DNA at the
door. “For terrorists, travel documents are like weapons,” said
Ministry apparatchik, Michael Chertoff. “We do have a right and an
obligation to see that those licenses reflect the identity of the
person who’s presenting it.” In response to the impudence of at least
some commoners, who managed to get a handful of states to pass laws
opposing Real ID, Chertoff declared identification issued by our rulers
will be mandatory for all “federal purposes,” which include boarding an
airplane or walking into a federal building, nuclear facility or
national park. In the not too distant future, no doubt, such an ID will
be mandatory for the purchase of food.

Not mentioned in the CNN article is the fact Chertoff and the Ministry
of Fatherland Security plan to merge the Real ID Act with proposals
spelled out in documents issued by the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America. In October, 2005, John MacDonald,
president of the Canadian Council of Motor Transport Administrators,
wrote to the Ministry: the SPP “provides general direction on a number
of security issues, although it does not specifically mention the use
of driver licences as part of any security solution. Under the section
headed ‘Securing North America from External Threats’ is the following
statement. ‘We will develop standards for lower-cost secure proof of
status and nationality documents to facilitate cross-border travel, and
work to achieve optimal production before January 1, 2008.’” It is
hardly coincidental this “optimal production” will be achieved a few
months before the Real ID is mandated to take effect.

As representative Ron Paul noted in a speech delivered on the floor of
the U.S. House, the “legislation gives authority to the Secretary of
Homeland Security to expand required information on driver’s licenses,
potentially including such biometric information as retina scans,
finger prints, DNA information, and even Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID) radio tracking technology. Including such technology as RFID
would mean that the federal government, as well as the governments of
Canada and Mexico, would know where Americans are at all time of the
day and night.”

It has nothing to do with “al-Qaeda” and everything to do with a police
state control grid.

Confronted with growing resistance, our rulers decided to trot out
Chertoff to deliver a message—subjects of the evolving global order
will submit, otherwise they will not be allowed to interact with the
federal government, something most citizens are required to do on
numerous occasions during their lives. “This is not a mandate,”
Chertoff said. “A state doesn’t have to do this, but if the state
doesn’t have—at the end of the day, at the end of the deadline—Real
ID-compliant licenses then the state cannot expect that those licenses
will be accepted for federal purposes.”