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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.
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