Copyright © PropagandaMatrix.com 2001-2005. All rights reserved.
E Mail This Page

Join the Mailing List
Enter your name and email address below:
Name:
Email:
Subscribe  Unsubscribe 
Subscribe to the Newsgroup
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Get Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson's books, ALL Alex's documentary films, films by other authors, audio interviews and special reports. Sign up at Prison Planet.tv - CLICK HERE.

US won't insist on biometric passports

UK Inquirer | June 10 2005

AS REPORTED by Wendy M. Grossman in her net.wars column some weeks back, the USA is not insisting that the whole world+dog goes biometric, despite what the peddlers of the stuff say.

The Financial Times reported yesterday that the US demand for biometric passports will be dumped because travellers may cancel tourist trips to the States. The deadline for the biometric passports was supposed to be October, but a large number of EU countries simply cannot meet such a deadline.

But this also throws doubt on the plans by the UK government to make us all carry expensive biometric ID cards. A plank of the Labour Party government plan is that the USA insists on such biometric information, but a compulsory obligation to be a card carrying subject of HM the Queen isn't likely until 2010 anyroad.

The ID scheme in the UK faces considerable opposition from a number of Labour Party members of parliament, as well as from opposition parties. Common sense also tells us that with the lamentable record the UK civil service has of implementing IT in every sphere it attempts, it would all get screwed up anyway.