Tags for This Article:

McCain-John (3903)  Media (3292)  Security (1230)  Immigration (625)  Minneapolis (43)  Definitions (22)  Winona LaDuke (1) 

Populum Tag Cloud
       Control Panel
Fine tune your search to access content
Articles
Diaries Products
Events All
All time
Last 6 mos
Last month
Last week
Last 24 hrs
From:
Month  Day   Year

To:
Month  Day   Year
Alphabet
Popularity
Count ON
Count OFF
This Level
Sub-levels

 

 

 

Tag(s): ; ; ; ; ; ;
Add to My Group
July 27, 2008 at 10:59:02

View Ratings | Rate It

Media: Please Define "Biometric Documents"

by Georgianne Nienaber     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

www.opednews.com

 

Tell A Friend


Canedog: The biometrically identified Shitzu

Quite by accident I caught interviews of John McCain this weekend. The Minneapolis ABC affiliate had a Q&A blog post, and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked McCain about his position on amnesty for illegal aliens. The answer was canned and identical—no surprise there.

MCCAIN: We have to secure our borders and we have to have tamper-proof biometric documents for temporary workers who are truly temporary then there is the issue of 12 million people illegally….

What was surprising—or maybe not— was that there was no follow-up on exactly what McCain means by “biometric documents.” Biometric identification can range from computer-recognition of a signature to an implant. My Shitzu puppy came with a micro-chip implant, but I’m gettin’ a little nervous that my grandchildren might also be tagged.

So, I did a little checking.

On July 9, 2008 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued revised instructions for the Application for Travel Document (USCIS Form I-131). The instructions require applicants for re-entry permits and refugee travel documents to provide “biometrics”—fingerprints and photographs— at a USCIS Application Support Center for background and security checks.

That sounds reasonable, but with the wide-ranging definitions of biometric identification, it seems prudent that the media try to pin McCain down on his definition and how it relates to Homeland Security measures which are becoming increasingly draconian.

I’m really getting nervous about this election.

My choices are down to increasingly narcissistic Obama and 1984 McCain.

If only a write-in would be feasible. Call me crazy, but Winona LaDuke has always held such promise in my idea of the perfect leader. I know she messed it up for Gore, but hey, we all make mistakes.

Read her books, click here Last Standing Woman and  click here All Our Relations, and see what I mean.

 

Georgianne Nienaber is a writer, author, and investigative journalist. She lives in the world. Her articles have appeared in The Huffington Post, SCOOP New Zealand, Glide Magazine, Rwanda's New Times, India's TerraGreen, COA News, ZNET, OpEdNews, The Journal of the International Primate Protection League, Friends of the Congo, Africa Front, The United Nations Publication, A Civil Society Observer, and Zimbabwe's The Daily Mirror. Her fiction exposé of insurance fraud in the horse industry, Horse Sense, was re-released in early 2006. Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was also released in 2006. Nienaber spent much of 2007 doing research in South Africa, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She was in DRC as a MONUC-accredited journalist, and recently spent six weeks in Southern Louisiana investigating hurricane reconstruction. She is currently developing a documentary on the Gulf of Mexico DEAD ZONE.

Contact Author
Contact Editor
View Other Articles by Author

 

Bookmark this page: (what's this?)

NETSCAPE      DIGG THIS      Add This Page to Mr Wong!           NEWSVINE      DEl.ICIO.US      Looksmart Furl      My Web      Tag!RawSugar      Blink List     (More...)
Comments: Expand   Shrink   Hide  
5 comments

Prefer no public bio.
Robert McElroyPrefer no public bio.

.

Fingerprints and photos seems to be the current definition. A bill on the House floor this week would provide mobile biometric resources to the Coast Guard to use to identify people trying to enter the US from sea without documentation. The bill defines biometric as fingerprints and digital photographs.

by Robert McElroy (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments) on Monday, July 28, 2008 at 6:43:00 AM
 


I am a college graduate, a loyal patriot of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person whose convictions and pessimism drive my thought invoking others to think, and enjoy some politcal debate. I like truth even if it doesn't set you "free" in this US of A any longer. I am a liberal.
I do a bit of painting mostly in Acrylic. I do a bit of poetry writng mostly inspired by tragic thought. I do a ton of reading, mostly online. I speak straightforwardly and don't plan on changing. It's wor...

to see more of bio, click on member name

shirley reeseI am a college graduate, a loyal patriot of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, a person whose convictions and pessimism drive my thought invoking others to think, and enjoy some politcal debate. I like truth even if it doesn't set you "free" in this US of A any longer. I am a liberal.
I do a bit of painting mostly in Acrylic. I do a bit of poetry writng mostly inspired by tragic thought. I do a ton of reading, mostly online. I speak straightforwardly and don't plan on changing. It's wor...

to see more of bio, click on member name

biometrics, meaning...

IRIS SCAN. Once scanned, you are forever in the data banks. No papers, no tickets, nothing but that flash. Bush announced in one of his speeches that "the borders were secure with biometrics"(one main biomentric is iris scans). I figure we have all been scanned from the aircraft that fly low, or the triangle plane that no one can see on radar.

it's here, it's done. We are all tagged or the most of us, or soon will be.

by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 398 comments) on Monday, July 28, 2008 at 10:18:28 PM
 

 

5 comments

 

Tell A Friend

 


Copyright © OpEdNews, 2002-2008

Blog Ads

 

 

 

 

Most Popular Articles
in the Last 2 Days
(by Recommend Emails)

NEW IDEAS ON RESTORING U. S. ECONOMY, for the Next Secretary of Commerce, William Blaine Richardson III by Stephen Fox

Detroit vs. Wall Street: The Trillion Dollar Class War by Cameron Salisbury

Saving the Big 3 for You and Me ...a message from Michael Moore by Michael Moore

SO SAY THE BANKERS: Learn to Love the 'AMERO' by Patrick Henningsen

No Bailout Oversight: Bush Stalls Inspector General Selection by Allen L Roland

Credit Card Crisis Is Here / Derivatives Next by Allen L Roland

Paulson shoots another arrow into the heart of the Economy by Andrew Hughes

Odetta Sings Her First Song, from Way Up Above Us by muservin

Leading lives of quiet desperation this holiday season by Sheryl Letzgus McGinnis

Young inexperienced doctors learn the Culture of Dishonesty at the VA by Warren Wells

Go To Top 50 Most Popular