U.S. Congressman David Dreier, who has local offices in the Southern California Foothill community of San Dimas, has long been very eager to pass legislation which would require a new 'smart' social security card, under the guise of stopping illegal immigration. Dreier, who was outed many years ago as a closet homosexual by many mainstream radio and news outlets, is poised to become the Chairman of the House 'Rules Committee' once again, now that the GOP has regained a majority. This power may garner him enough influence to pressure members of Congress into passing his mandatory microchiped social security card bill.
Dreier, who has been harshly opposed by conservatives and populists in years past precisely because his insistence on passing amnesty for illegal aliens, is not fooling anyone with this big-brother bill. Although he has never adopted the rhetoric or following of the 'tea party' movement, Dreier is keenly aware of the opposition to national ID cards, largely by his libertarian leaning and Constitutionally-minded constituents.
The bill is titled H.R. 98, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Social Security Protection Act. On his webpage summary of the bill, Dreier writes "The smart card is prohibited from being used as a national ID card. In fact, it contains a disclaimer stating "This card not to be used for the purpose of identification".
Dreier also painstakingly avoids the use of the terms 'microchip', 'RFID', or 'radio frequency identification', though that is undoubtedly exactly what it is, evidenced by the use of the term "encrypted machine-readable electronic identification strip" as described in the text of the bill.
Page four of the bill reads "Each Social Security card issued under this subparagraph shall contain a disclaimer stating the following: ‘This card shall not be used for the purpose of identification.’
Utterly ironic is the fact that despite all of Dreier's claims that it is not an ID card, the bill states specifically that it is. On Page 10 of the bill, under 'Verification procedures', it states that the electronic ID 'strip' will help employers 'verify the identity of the card holder'.
If a card verifies the identity of the cardholder, then how, pray tell, is it not an identity card? Maybe one has to move to the District of Criminals, or attend Bohemian Grove, in order to comprehend such tortured (il)logic.
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