National ID card linked to the 'super slab'

Chronicle Online
Posted: Jan 4, 2007

Now that portions of the secret information regarding the “Security and Prosperity Agreement Partnership” (aka the NAFTA super highway) is gradually getting out to more and more Americans, it raises even more questions how this all will turn out, especially if Americans don’t wake up to what is going on in our government.

I have had several readers contact me asking for more details on what they have recently learned, both by telephone and letter, and they didn’t have to twist my arm to continue giving additional information. An observation in the question of why President Bush has fought tooth and nail to keep from ever building a border fence between Mexico and the United States is because he’s giving us instead a secret highway that crosses an eliminated former U.S. border n this does away with any so-called “illegal immigrants” to worry about. It just facilitates the clear invasion of America by illegal aliens and the massive importation of Chinese goods into Mexican ports and then through America to Canada.

Think of all the American farms and communities that will be destroyed by eminent domain to make room for the “super slab.” Thousands of American jobs would be lost by our truckers and longshoremen, for example, in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California who average making $140,000 a year, plus factory workers.

What illegal goods such as drugs, guns, foodstuffs, etc., will be sent through America with only a Mexican inspection on sovereign Mexican territory in Kansas City. How many terrorists will use this easy entry into America?

It’s all called pushing the New World Order to arrive at a form of government modeled after the European Union.

Did you notice that during our recent election, stopping terrorism, illegal immigration, the dangers presented by this NAFTA highway were not even mentioned? Does Congress even care if our nation is destroyed? They were on notice due to U.S. Representative Virgil H. Goode’s (R-Va.) filing House Concurrent Resolution 487 that had a grand total of only three co-sponsors. That tells you a lot in itself.

Even the Vatican is against building a fence or wall between our country and Mexico. Cardinal Renato Martino, speaking at a Rome news conference, also spoke out against the fence Israel is building to stop infiltration of suicide bombers and of the fence Saudi Arabia has approved for their border to stem the flow of militants coming from Iraq. The Pope’s message called for additional laws to aid the smooth integration of immigrants into their new countries of residency.

How nice that sounds to those not involved. Along with all the other important rights Americans are in line to lose from the merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico is the effort being made currently to create a common “North American ID card.” It is being promoted as a “radio frequency identification devise” (RFID). It puts your life on a computer chip.

Biometric identification chips can contain reams of personal information, including thumb prints, iris scans and personal health and education history, skills, work history, job evaluation, credit information, etc. This ID is being presented in the name of national security n it is our turn to be “tagged.”

The government should institute some common sense security measures, such as simply securing our borders with a fence. But no, the unscreened foreigners are being openly invited. This gives a reason for monitoring American people with a national ID card. To them, it’s a solution to the illegal immigration problem.

This RFID system is closer than you think. In May 2005, the federal government gave U.S. citizens “de facto” national ID cards. Title 11 of the Real ID Act calls for new federal standards in driver’s licenses.

Unless states comply by May 2008, their residents will not be able to enter federal buildings, board planes, collect Social Security payments or establish accounts with national banks, and time is passing quickly. For honest people, the cards could be used to track their movements throughout the day, wherever the card is scanned at supermarkets, drugstores, car rentals, gas stations, etc., to verify credit card use, or at banks when depositing or withdrawing money.

The government feels this implementation of a national ID card will help the merger of our three countries. Of course, the Council on Foreign Relations recommends the card, saying it would expedite passage through customs, immigration and airport security throughout the region.

What they don’t tell you is this would be the precursor of an international North American ID. The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which grew out of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, is a group of programs that would require those entering the U.S. to use documents to prove the bearer’s identification and citizenship.

Our Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversees this program and suggests such a card in the form of a driver’s license for international travel. They want such a document to be called a PASS card to be used for both leaving and entering the United Sates. Going further, the PASS card would just be another step of requiring a national ID card.

There is some fear such a card would hamper “free trade” between the three countries, especially tourism, so a coalition of some 60 companies and associations of U.S. and Canadian businesses called the Business for Economic Security, Trade and Tourism reviewed PASS and estimated it would reduce commerce, costing the U.S. economy lost revenue. So this will also be used as an additional reason to internationalize the real ID program, so as to not interfere with “free trade.” After all, that’s how they sold the American public on CAFTA, NAFTA and other so-called free trade agreements.

This is one of the oft-repeated objectives of the North American Union and the SPP schemers, a real means of tracking immigrants who will soon be working in the U.S. if we don’t stop them.

Some reasons for being wary would be cost. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the fees for renewing a driver’s license would jump from $24 to $100, and this would be before the decision would be made to incorporate RFID technology into Real ID’s.

Also to consider, there is no such thing as a tamper-proof system and if hacked into n and it is believed that it can be done n the RFID chip could cause a real problem in identity theft. But the biggest drawback would be the ability of not only our government having total surveillance on the card carriers, but also Mexico and Canada would have the same capabilities.

So are you ready for this futuristic driver’s license as it may be called, when in reality Americans will finally be saddled with a National ID card? If you don’t like it, step up to the plate and tell your Congressman and Senators to go to work and get this stopped. It’s not that long until May 2008.

Robert E. Beckner lives in Majestic Oaks with his wife, Sarah. He is a retired private investigator and insurance adjuster. He has also been a photographer and served with the Military Police in the Marine Corps.