> But here's the thing, Doggy.  You throw in Alim's face the fact that the
> telephone and Social Security number help to "track" people.  But it wasn't
> sold like that at first.  When the SS numbers were started, there were
> similar concerns just like now about the biometric ID card.  We were assured
> that it was just going to be 1% set aside for retirement, and that it would
> never be used as a means of identification.  Well, in hindsight, it looks
> like the government lied to us.  In the words of Gomer Pile, surprise
> surprise surprise.  Do you really believe that they only want these new
> biometric ID cards to somehow thwart illegal aliens from saturating the
> workplace?  If so, then why haven't they done anything to address that issue
> before?  Can you not imagine where our every move someday will depend on
> swiping our little card that has our iris pattern embedded in it?  Look to
> communist China right now, how do they use the cards already in that
> totalitarian society.  Is that what you want for this country?  Maybe John
> Savage is right, maybe we cannot fight it, but should we just roll over and
> give into it?