REAL ID: You will need it to use the Internet, page 1
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Topic started on 25-1-2008 @ 10:06 AM by Golack
I would like to present the case that REAL ID may include a plan for government control of the internet.

I was watching the Republican debate last night and something Rudolph Giuliani said scared the crap out of me. This guy is the biggest pusher of REAL ID out of any candidate. He was talking about how a 'tamper proof id card' would help limit illegal immigration.

Just watch this part of the debate between 6:25 and 8:00 minutes


Thats right, he said:

And then if you've got the tamper-proof ID card, you'd be allowed to work, pay taxes, get online,


Entire Transcript
And to the very patient Paul Tash we go, in the front row, from the St. Petersburg Times. Paul?

MR. TASH: Mayor Giuliani, this question to you comes from Marshall Brennan (sp) of St. Petersburg.

"Your immigration plan calls for all immigrants to learn English to gain citizenship. So why is your campaign airing an ad in Spanish?" (Laughter.)

MR. GIULIANI: (Laughs.) The reality is I believe that America is a country that is built around the English language. If you want to become a citizen, you should demonstrate your facility with English. If you know other languages, that is wonderful. That's a wonderful thing. And if we have substantial portions of populations that know other languages, I'm very comfortable trying to reach them in both English and in Spanish.

The core of my plan on immigration is to stop illegal immigration at the border with a border stat system, with technology, with an increased Border Patrol. I believe we can stop illegal immigration if we stop it right at the border.

And then we should develop a tamper-proof ID card so that people who want to come into the United States should be allowed to do that. We need to teach new behavior. The new behavior is, if you want to come into the United States, you have to identify yourself -- which, after all, makes the United States like every other country, right?

You can't get into most countries without identifying yourself. And then if you've got the tamper-proof ID card, you'd be allowed to work, pay taxes, get online, become a citizen, follow the rules, but then at the end of the line, you'd have to be able to read, write and speak English.

If you speak a second language or a third language or a fourth language, I think that's great for America. I think America has to be a country that has facility with more languages, given the global economy we live in. And I think we can be very comfortable with that, but the focus has to be on being able to read, write and speak English if you want to be a citizen.

www.nytimes.com...


reply posted on 26-1-2008 @ 11:32 AM by Question
reply to post by kozmo



I have an interesting question to pose to you now that you've brought this illegal ID market up.

I think it is almost widely accepted here that the CIA is and has been behind illegal drug trafficking for years. Do you believe that, should it ever come to this, that this would be their next step? In other words, would we really be escaping the problem of them wanting to control us? or would we be joining the problem anyway, but only by a different means (an "illegal" one in which the CIA has its grubby greedy fingers on)

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