policy laundering

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Good info here

www.MajestyFarm.com

``If

a nation expects to be ignorant and free, " Jefferson wrote in 1816, ``it expects what never was and

never will be. "

Looks like the feds are trying to get around the

public's dislike of RFID,

in a very sneaky way.......They are playing dirty on everything.........

..... " Steinhardt went on to describe how " policy laundering "

works. The Feds

want every American to carry electronic I.D. cards, but the proposal fails

domestically. So U.S.

officials prod an international agency to adopt the

new standards for machine readable travel documents, aka biometric

passports. In this case the feds went to an obscure agency known as the

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The feds then return

saying, " We understand the concerns that American citizens have about I.D.

cards, but it's out of our hands now. We are just complying with

international standards.... "

Full Story........

http://www.reason.com/rb/rb101906.shtml

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