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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 485
exemptions.” Thereby, GATT does not only apply to U.S. children. The children of any GATT
participating nation, who give income tax exemptions for children, are required to assign ID
numbers to those children.
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The majority of the nations of the world participate in GATT.
We now see that there is a push for national I.D. cards all over the world. Jacki Juntti is
an expert on this. She leads a Grassroots E-mail Network out of Washington State that battles
against the national I.D. According to Jacki, every country has some form of national I.D. going
on.
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In fact, they “are in use in many countries around the world including most European
countries, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.”
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After the bombing in Oklahoma City the war on personal freedom began to heat up and
as a result the Comprehensive Terrorism Prevention Act (CTPA) was passed and signed into law.
Many of the more egregious assaults on person freedom, such as a national I.D., didn’t make it
into the final version of the CTPA. Therefore, Congress made another attempt at a national I.D.
in 1996. This time they used the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act.
President Clinton signed the bill into law. The bill had a controversial provision that created a
defacto national I.D. card.
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The law required all states to begin issuing drivers licenses with
Social Security numbers on them by October 1, 2000. Also required were “security features.” It
was feared these could turn out to be “magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records.”
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Many concerned citizens called their representatives in Congress and in 1999 Congress repealed
the provision.
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A new assault on American’s personal freedoms began after the attacks on the World
Trade Centers on 9/11/2001. After the attack a survey by the Pew Research Center showed that
70% of Americans were willing to accept a law requiring them to carry a national I.D. and to
present it to police upon request in order to curb terrorism. One year later, in 2002, a follow up
survey revealed that 61% of Americans were still ready to accept a national I.D.
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The Patriot Act of 2001 was passed without the provision for a national I.D. Many in our
government were not satisfied and sought a national I.D. card along with other further
restrictions on personal freedoms. The persistence of those dedicated to limiting our personal
freedoms paid off and provisions for a defacto national I.D. were included in the National
Intelligence Reform Act of 2004. President Bush signed it into law in January of 2005.
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Under the new law, the Secretary of transportation is required “to establish minimum
standards for driver's licenses or personal identification cards issued by States for use by Federal
agencies for identification purposes.” State representatives are to be included in the rulemaking
process. The standards are to be implemented in two to three years. Two years after
implementation, the law “prohibits Federal agencies from accepting nonconforming driver's
licenses or personal identification cards”.
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Opponents express legitimate concerns that the minimum standards could include digital
photographs, thumbprints, iris scans and/or other biometric data and personal information on
magnetic strips. Digital photographs can be entered into computers for facial recognition
purposes. Some states already require digital photographs and still others require fingerprints. A
proposed national I.D. in Britain, if approved, will include fingerprints and iris scans.
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magnetic strip might include such information as age, gender, home address, date of birth or
even medical information. They could easily be read by “machine, perhaps with a quick swipe as
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