What could they be thinking?
Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker in the nation to carry a national identification card with biometric information, such as a fingerprint, within the next six years, according to a draft of the measure....
The national ID program would be titled the Believe System, an acronym for Biometric Enrollment, Locally stored Information and Electronic Verification of Employment.
It would require all workers across the nation to carry a card with a digital encryption key that would have to match work authorization databases.
“The cardholder’s identity will be verified by matching the biometric identifier stored within the microprocessing chip on the card to the identifier provided by the cardholder that shall be read by the scanner used by the employer,” states the Democratic legislative proposal.
The American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties defender often aligned with the Democratic Party, wasted no time in blasting the plan.
Are we all supposed to be carrying these around along with our Real IDs? Remember that? That's the national identification card law passed in 2005 that has recieved so much opposition that it still hasn't been implemented.
The Real ID Act united in opposition groups that normally oppose each one another, including the NGA, the National Rifle Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and numerous religious and privacy organizations.
The NGA is the National Governors Association. State legislatures across the country have rebelled against Real ID. This opposition by the nation's governors and legislatures happened because it's a really bad idea rejected by their constituents.
Can Senate Dems really be so oblivious (or tone deaf) to think that this has a prayer of passing?