“This entire scheme rests on the ability to link Internet presence/roles with real-world identities. So even if no physical card ever exists, the system as currently understood would very much equate to a national ID card for accessing the Internet.”
It’s been called the “Trusted Internet ID” scheme by some observers. It won’t matter what we choose to call the government’s proposed Internet licensing system because in the end we probably won’t have a say in it.
Earlier in the week we reported that the US Department of Commerce was preparing to create an Internet ID for all Americans. White House Cyber security Coordinator Howard Schmidt said that the Department of Commerce is “the absolute perfect spot in the US government” to build an online “identity ecosystem.”
Right off the bat I can tell you that attempting to force people to identify themselves on a national level doesn’t have much to do with the Department of Commerce’s official mission. We should all be feeling skeptical about this ID scheme.
Thanks to a nearly dead technology known as “history books”, we know that the US government has a long history of misinterpreting the commerce clause and that their many attempts to micromanage most aspects of the economy and centralize economic authority have been well documented. Historically this is a new low for them.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke provided us with this latest bit of government cyber security rhetoric:
“We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.”
Internet and technology expert Lauren Weinstein hit the nail on the head when he read between the lines of the official quotes. He highlighted the most important fundamental issue from this cyber security proposal in one good statement:
“This entire scheme rests on the ability to link Internet presence/roles with real-world identities. So even if no physical card ever exists, the system as currently understood would very much equate to a national ID card for accessing the Internet.”
The government is attempting to license and control our Internet activity by introducing a national Internet ID program. It’s not hard to see that the government views the pool of information and connectivity potential known as the Internet as a dangerous object, the same view they have on nearly every human activity.
Their response is to try and put their limitations on the way we access certain services on the Internet. They’re making a halfway claim of sorts that they’re doing us a “favor” by creating an Internet ID and eliminating the need to remember passwords.
But what they’re really doing is creating a way that they can identify us every time we access the Internet. It will only be a matter of time before any Internet business has to be conducted through their well monitored and approved channels if you want to have involvement in the American economy. Before long I bet that those who don’t get licensed probably won’t show up in the system, and until they get a license, it will be like they don’t exist.
And the maddening thing is that right now it doesn’t look like Americans will have any say in how this Internet ID goes down. I promise you, it is a bad idea for so many political and security reasons. Trust me, it’s worth googling to try and get some different perspectives on.
I have a feeling that a lot of people who don’t usually agree with me might be with me on this one.
David Gomez | Sat 15th Jan 2011, 01:58 pm
Source: TG Daily
Obama is now the worst President in the history of the United States of America, because not only did Obama approve and extend all Bush policies, but he also added even more unconstitutional laws and policies to them.
Obama like Bush (and all the other elite puppet criminals) is a traitor.
Change we can believe in!
The record from hell (only a small part of it):
– EXPOSED: Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Political Syndicate – Total Corruption
– Hawaii Governor Can’t Find President Obama’s Birth Certificate
– US Government Borrows 40 Percent Of Every Dollar It Spends
– US Congress Quietly Prepares to Renew Patriot Act
– US Government Spends $6.85 Million Per Minute
– Max Keiser: Monsanto And The Seeds Of Evil – Max Calls Obama A ‘Friggin NAZI’
– Utah: $1.5 Billion NSA Cyber-Security Center Under Way
– Hiding The Greatest Depression: How The US Government Does It
– S. 510 Food Safety Modernization Bill and Codex Alimentarius
– New Obama Eligibility Challenge Reaches The U.S. Supreme Court
– The TSA’s State-Mandated Molestation
– President Obama To Enact ‘Death Panels’
– Obamatax Law Packed With Obscure Business Tax Cuts
– US Treasury: Government Liabilities Rose $2 Trillion in Fiscal Year 2010
– President Obama to Sign Package Extending Tax Breaks For The Rich
– In pushing Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi dismisses authority of US Constitution
– 30 Facts – The Rothschild Bankers Planned The Gulf Disaster
– Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: ‘Gulf Coast Oil Spill’
– US House of Representatives Passes Unconstitutional S.510/HR 2751, The Food Safety Modernization Act
– And Now: Democrats Pull Fast One With S. 510 Food Safety Bill
– Federal Judge Rules Obamacare Unconstitutional
– US: Highest November Budget Deficit On Record
– Walmart Public Service Announcement By STASI Secretary Janet Napolitano
– BP Victims Won’t Be Allowed to Sue If They Accept Compensation
– Obama supporter Velma Hart ‘Exhausted’ Defending Barack Obama’s Policies Loses Her Job
– Rep. Ron Paul on CNN: ‘We Don’t Solve Our Problems By Abusing The Rights Of American Citizens!’
– Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Proposes Full-Body Scanners For Trains, Boats, Metro
– Rep. Ron Paul to TSA: Stop Irradiating Our Bodies and Fondling Our Children!
– 1 in 7 US Households Hit By Hunger Issues in 2009
– White House Probe Clears BP Over Oil Spill Disaster
– President Obama Warns of Unemployment Being ‘New Normal’ in US
– Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: Wall Street
– Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America
– Pentagon Awards $630 Million Afghanistan Contract to Highly Controversial Supplier
– America – The End of Liberty (Documentary)
– In US 14 Percent Rely on Food Stamps, 42,389,619 Americans received food stamps in August
– US Spends 511 Million Dollars on Embassy Expansion in Afghanistan
– Marine Toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott: ‘People Now Dropping Dead’ In the Gulf
– US Debt Has Increased $5 Trillion Since Speaker Pelosi Vowed, ‘No New Deficit Spending’
– The Dylan Ratigan Show with Prof. William Black: ‘Fire Holder, Fire Geithner, Fire Bernanke’
– The US is building an £8 billion super military base on the Pacific island of Guam
– Elite Puppet President Obama Exposed (The video exposes also several other puppet US administrations.)
– Transparency: US Treasury Shields Citigroup as Deletions Undercut Disclosure
– Three Horrifying Facts About the US Debt ‘Situation’
– Tickerguy On Dylan Ratigan Show – Massive Fraud At The Highest Levels!
– Operation Dark Heart: Book Burning by Obama Administration
– FBI agents seek the right to tap texts, emails and websites
– President Obama Argues His Unconstitutional Assassination Program Is A ‘State Secret’
– Obama Administration Plans Largest Arms Deal Ever, Worth $60 Billion
– US Census Bureau Reports Highest Poverty Rate Since 1994: 14.3 Percent
– Interview With Gerald Celente: The Gestapo of Food
– President Obama Wins The Right to Invoke ‘State Secrets’ to Protect Bush Crimes
– Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Responds to Federal Government Suit
– Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Being Sued By Federal Government
– Change: Obama Administration Forbids Sale of 850,000 Antique Rifles
– American Deaths In Afghanistan Surpass Highest Annual Record
– Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu: ‘Mexican Drug Cartels Literally Do Control Parts Of Arizona’
– US: Record 1 in 6 Americans in Government Anti-Poverty Programs
– Paul Craig Roberts: Death of the First Amendment – The Nazification of the United States
Obama has the same position as Bush on Al-Qaeda:
– Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist or How The US Created Al Qaeda (Documentary)
– Gulf claims chief Ken Feinberg says BP no-sue rule was his idea, takes control of BP’s $20bn fund
– Nearly 50 Percent leave Obama Mortgage-Relief Program
– Army Gags Officer Challenging Obama Eligibility; Officer’s Defense Team Demanding Obama Birth Docs
– US Military Judge: Confessions Obtained By Threatening The Subject With Rape Are Admissible In Court
– Judge Napolitano on Freedom Watch With Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Justin Raimondo And Gerald Celente
– Elena Kagan Blocked At Least 9 Obama Eligibility Lawsuits
– US: Food stamp Use Hit Record 40.8 Million in May
– Admiral Mike Mullen: US has plan to attack Iran (if needed)
– Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu: ‘Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy’
– Obama Administration Proposal To Give FBI Access To Your Internet History Without Court Order
– SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure, incl. FOIA!!!
– Nancy Pelosi Blocks Gulf Disaster Investigation
– And Now ObamaService? H.R. 5741: Universal National Service Act
– TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky: US Taxpayers On The Hook For $23.7 Trillion
– Obama Bankster Bill Lets Banks Have US Over A Barrel Again
– GLOBE MAGAZINE: OBAMA BORN IN AFRICA! WHY HIS PRESIDENCY IS ILLEGAL
– Obamacare: Gold Coin Sellers Angered by New Tax Law
– Change: Estate Tax Top Rate To Jump From Zero To 55%, Exemption To Shrink To Just $1 Million
– Harvard Prof. Niall Ferguson Warns of Sudden Collapse of American ‘Empire’
– Obama Administration Plans Secret Big Brother ‘Perfect Citizen’ Net Surveillance
– General James Mattis who said it was ‘fun to shoot people’ takes over US Central Command
– Obama Administration To Sue Arizona Over Immigration Law
– Now truth is bad for you: ‘Obama warns Erdogan international Gaza flotilla probe bad for Turkey’
– Barack Obama’s ‘Politics As Usual’ Revealed By Rod Blagojevich Trial
– Third US carrier, 4,000 Marines augment US armada opposite Iran
– Obama Internet ‘Kill Switch’ Approved By Senate Committee
– Ron Paul on Stanley McChrystal
– Rahm Emanuel ‘traded political favour with Rod Blagojevich’
– Americans buying their own health insurance face an average 20 percent increase in premiums
– Report: US and Israeli warships cross Suez Canal toward Red Sea
– US Senate Bill Proposes Internet ‘Kill Switch’ For The President
– Big Brother DHS And DOD Want To Open US Skies To Spy Drones
– President Obama Has Already Outdone Every Previous President In Prosecuting Whistleblowers
– US government debt to rise to $19.6 trillion by 2015
– Left-Wing Icon Daniel Ellsberg: ‘Obama Deceives the Public’
– US: $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP (Chart of Day)
– 10 US States Where An Absurd Percentage Of The Population Works For The Government
– US ‘secret war’ expands globally as Special Operations forces are deployed in 75 countries
– Paul Craig Roberts: A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a “Failed State”
– Paul Craig Roberts: ‘AIPAC Owns The US Puppet Government’
– US Begins Massive Military Build Up Around Iran, Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups In Region
– President Obama Wins The Right to Detain People With No Habeas Review
– Meltup (Documentary): The Beginning Of A US Currency Crisis And Hyperinflation.
– US posts 19th straight monthly budget deficit; April deficit nearly four times higher than in 2009
– Obama Picks Elena Kagan, Backer of Indefinite Detention Without Trial, for Supreme Court
– Peter Schiff on Obama’s Financial Regulation Bill and Goldman Sachs
– Peter Schiff: Obama’s Financial Reform Does Nothing To Address The Underlying Problems
– Gerald Celente: Obama’s Financial Reform Is Just A Show
– Mike Krieger: Goodbye Disneyland! – The Neo-Feudalistic, Gulag Casino Economy Has Already Begun
– President Obama Repaying His Masters At Goldman Sachs
– Marriage Penalties Increase Dramatically Under ObamaCare
– US won’t share Ft Hood evidence with Senate: Gates
– The No.1 Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente on ObamaCare, Dollar Devaluation And Gold
– Rep. Ron Paul: President Obama Is ‘Not A Socialist.’ ‘He Is A Corporatist.’
– Dylan Ratigan Show With Alan Grayson: The Great Con Job By The Fed, The Government And The Banksters
– Obama Administration Approves Targeted Killing of American Cleric
– Michelle Obama says Barack’s Home country is Kenya – full statement
– Judge Napolitano on Obama’s Private Army
– Obama Gives ‘Pesticide Lobbyist’ Post as Chief Agricultural Negotiator
– It’s Official: America Now Enforces Capital Controls
– Rep. Ron Paul: Healthcare Will Drive US To Bankruptcy
– John Pilger: Have a Nice World War III, Folks
– Joe Biden to Barack Obama: ‘Mr. President, This Is A Big F****** Deal’
– Rep. Ron Paul: Healthcare Bill is ‘Blatantly Unconstitutional And Contrary to The Ideals of Liberty’
– Health Care Bill ‘Dangerously Expands IRS’s Power’
– US Government Preparing For Civil Unrest In America
– Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano: Unconstitutional National Worker ID Card
– Record: National Debt Up $2 Trillion in Just 421 Days on Obama’s Watch
– Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more often than under Bush
– US budget deficit hits record $221bn, the largest monthly deficit in history
– US Drone Strikes in Pakistan: 1 in 3 Killed Are Civilians
– New Obama Administration Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss
– Michael Moore: ‘Democrats are a bunch of wusses … It’s disgusting … I’m sick of them’
– President Obama signs one-year extension of Patriot Act
– Cybersecurity Bill To Give President Obama New Emergency Powers
– US Senate votes to extend Patriot Act
– Judge Napolitano and Angela Keaton on Freedom Watch: Obama’s Bush Foreign Policy
– Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion
– President Obama’s Pledge Never to Raise Taxes on Anyone Making Less Than $250,000 a Year
– Paul Craig Roberts: It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is A Police State
– Prof. Russell Roberts Testifies Before House Committee: ‘I Want My Country Back!’
– Director of National Intelligence Says US May Kill Americans Abroad
– The New Vision of the Obama Administration: War Without End
– Pentagon’s New Record Black Budget Tops $56 Billion
– Obama’s $3.8 Trillion Budget: Tax Rise of $1.9 Trillion for Richer Americans, Businesses
– Rep. Ron Paul on Obama seeking to assassinate ‘US citizens’ he labels as terrorist
– President Obama raises stakes on Iran by sending in ships and missiles
– Marc Faber: Obama Makes Bush Look Like a Genius
– Obamanomics: Why Did the ‘Stimulus’ Fail to Help the US Economy?
– President Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without charges
– Ron Paul: US Foreign Policy is Bankrupting America
– America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship!
– US: Supreme Court overturns long-standing limits on corporate political campaign spending
– Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 (Key Points)
– The No.1 Trend Forecaster Gerald Celente: Financial Mafia Controlling US and Wall Street
– Peter Schiff: The Lunacy of US Government Programs
– Larry Summers, Robert Rubin: Will The Harvard Shadow Elite Bankrupt The University And The Country?
– Barack Obama’s Health Care Lies And Reversals
– PIMCO’S Bill Gross: ‘Let’s Get Fisical’ (… or why the US will not make it.)
– U.S. Avoids Technical Default By Three Days
– As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health insurance … that supports Big Pharma
– Obamacare to expand IRS role: Checking if Americans have health insurance
– Prof. Dr. David Michael Green: Now I’m Really Getting Pissed Off … With Obama
– Afghan CIA suicide bomber ‘was courted as potential informant’
– US government wants farmers to use coal waste on fields
– We’re Screwed! Hyperinflation like in the Weimar Republic; Great Depression worse than in the 1930s
– Treason: Obama gives INTERPOL immunity from the Constitution (Amending Executive Order 12425)
– Peter Schiff on Obamacare, Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: The Nightmare Before Christmas
– Obama administration backs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac no matter how big their losses may be
– Obamacare: Big payoffs to senators on health bill stoke public anger
– Obamacare: Change Nobody Believes In
– Obama’s surge comes at a cost: At least $57,077.60 per minute
– President Obama: Another Busy Day in The Oval Office!
– Fascism in America: By Political Definition The US Is Now Fascist, Not A Constitutional Republic
– Barack Obama Lies 7 Times In Under 2 Minutes!!!!!
– Obama’s Big Sellout (Rolling Stone Magazine)
– Rep. Dennis Kucinich: The Truth About Afghanistan
– White House ‘Party Crashers’ Knew President Obama For Years, Here Pictured With Obama in 2005
– MSNBC Rachel Maddow: War President Obama
– Ron Paul: ‘Obama is Actually Preparing Us For Perpetual War’
– Afghanistan Surge to Cost At Least $40 Billion, That Is $1.333.333 For One US Soldier Per Year
– Paul Craig Roberts: The Obama Puppet – The World’s Least Powerful Man
– Change: 71% are Angry, 46% are Very Angry at Federal Government (Rasmussen Reports)
– Lawmakers Slam Obama Administration for Faulty Job Data on Government Web Site
– White House Pharma Deal to Net Industry $137 Billion
– Afghanistan: New 67-Million-Dollar US Prison At Bagram
– President Obama: CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO IRAN
– Health Care Treason: Tell The Senate No, We Will Sue
– The ‘Obama Market’ in Kabul: US Military Rations, Sleeping Bags, Tactical Goggles on Sale
– Paul Craig Roberts: Republic of Fools & The Evil Empire
– President Obama: Penalties have to be high enough to force people to buy health insurance
– Pelosi Healthcare Bill: Buy Insurance or Go To Jail
– President Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job
– Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Health reform legislation ‘a bailout for insurance companies’
– US: Up to 95.2% Income Tax Rate Needed to Close Deficit in 2010
– How the Obama administration inflates the number of jobs created
– $160,000 Per Stimulus Job!?! The White House Calls That ‘Calculator Abuse’
– More Than 40% of President Obama’s Top-Level Fundraisers Secured Posts in His Administration
– President Obama signs law blocking release of torture photos
– H1N1 Swine Flu A National Emergency? Take A Close Look At This Chart
– President Obama declares H1N1 swine flu a national emergency
– President Obama Lobbies Senate, Favors Insurance Industry Version of Health Care Reform
– Fall Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama (The Full Movie HQ)
– President Obama gets a seasonal flu shot, but not for swine flu
– The US Government: Bought and Paid For
– President Obama, Congress prepare to thwart ACLU suit over abuse photos
– President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize and hell freezes over!
– President Obama nominated for Nobel Peace Prize less then two weeks after Inauguration!!!
– US: Military to get mandatory swine flu shots soon
– Americans threatened with jail, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance
– President Obama Extends 9/11 National Emergency
– Obama’s Regulation Czar Advocated Removing People’s Organs Without Explicit Consent
– Philip Giraldi: The Best Congress AIPAC Can Buy
– Rep. John Carter: Our Own Congress is Trying to Silence Us
– John Pilger: Barack Obama is a Corporate Marketing Creation
– Were the bailouts even constitutional?
– Obama administration asks the Supreme Court to block detainee photos
– Obama leaves Bush’s NSPD 51 intact
– Monsanto lobbyists to be placed in charge of food safety by Obama
– Joe Biden: We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt
– The Obama Stimulus Failed: States Use Stimulus Money for Short-Term Needs, Audit Shows
– Barack Obama at AIPAC (Flashback)
– Obama’s Money Cartel (Flashback)
– Barack Obama Hires Another Tax-Screwer-Upper
– Obama administration refuses to disclose “high hazard” coal dump locations
– Obama proposals to greatly increase the power of the Federal Reserve
– No change: Obama ambassadorships still go to fundraisers, friends
– ACLU hits Obama administration hard over torture controversies
– Obama’s Homeland Security Nominee Withdraws Amid Questions About Torture
– Rachel Maddow: Indefinite detention? Shame on you … President Obama
– Obama: Israel’s security is paramount
– Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise as Military Commissions Resume, Says Amnesty International
– Obama administration seeks indefinite detention for terror suspects
– Here Are a Few of the Torture Photos Obama Doesn’t Want You To See
– Lou Dobbs: Obama Pushes Anti-Gun Treaty
– Obama and habeas corpus — then and now
– Obama passing new law to allow searching of PC’s, Laptops, and media devices
– Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG
– Paul Craig Roberts: From One Assault On The Constitution To Another
– Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners
– Obama Stimulus Saves Microsoft Billionaire Hundreds Of Millions
– Obama, not Bush, now seeking delay of Rove deposition
– Barack Obama to allow anti-terror rendition to continue
– Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House”, but here they are again
– What Recession? The $170 Million Inauguration
– Cost for a single soldier to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan is about $775,000 per year
– CNN – Lou Dobbs: Obama Backing North American Union Agenda
– Jim Rogers: If Obamanomics happens it’s all over
– Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font
– Change, change, change … Obama’s Bailout Bunch Brings Us More of the Same Bullshit
– Obama’s Chief of Staff Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal
– Obama’s Chief of Staff pick is one of the biggest recipients of Wall Street money in Congress
– Ron Paul: McCain, Obama ‘no difference’
– Joe Biden in 2007 interview: I am a Zionist
– On video: Obama Claims He Has Visited 57 States
At a campaign event in Beaverton, OR, Obama claimed to have visited 57 U.S. states during the campaign.
