posted 04-05-2004 09:42 AM            

Infowars.com
April 2, 2004

A couple years ago, Alex saw Ridge on C-Span Talking about this. You won't be able to get a job without your driver's licence, which will be a deFacto National ID card. You will also be rated.

Underreported
Thursday, April 01, 2004

According to a Mar. 26, 2004 Washington Times article (emphasis added):
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are developing a database that will allow private companies to submit lists of individuals to be screened for a connection to terrorism, the FBI Terrorist Screening Center Director Donna A. Bucella told legislators yesterday.
The database "will eventually allow private-sector entities, such as operators of critical infrastructure facilities or organizers of large events, to submit a list of persons associated with those events to the U.S. government to be screened for any nexus to terrorism," Miss Bucella said at a joint hearing of the House Judiciary and Homeland Security subcommittees.

That phrase "nexus to terrorism" is ominous. dictionary.com defines "nexus" as:
A means of connection; a link or tie
Recall the case of Canadian citizen Maher Arar, who was sent by the U.S. to Syria to receive torture, simply because an acquaintence happend to witness a lease agreement Arar signed. According to a Nov. 2003 article from the Toronto Globe and Mail (emphasis added):
The riddle of Maher Arar's captivity now seems to centre on a mysterious acquaintance: Abdullah Almalki, a fellow Syrian-Canadian also in his early 30s.
The two men knew each other in Ottawa, before their inextricably linked fates led them to meet up again in a hellish Middle Eastern prison only a few weeks ago.

Back in 1997, both men lived relatively normal lives. They were naturalized Canadians living in Ottawa. In a choice that would later come back to haunt him, Mr. Arar had Mr. Almalki act as a witness for a lease he signed.

[...] A few months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, RCMP national-security agents went looking for Mr. Arar and Mr. Almalki to ask them questions. It's not clear what exactly police wanted from the men.

By early 2002, Mr. Almalki's travels to Malaysia and Indonesia were noticed by intelligence agencies, who regard the countries as places where al-Qaeda has footholds. And back at home, continued Canadian interest in Mr. Almalki was clear.

"The RCMP was interested in Abdullah. And when Abdullah went to Malaysia, they basically did a sweep of his family and they questioned them all," said Riad Saloojee, who heads an Ottawa-based Muslim association. "There was a ripple effect in the community -- many people who knew Abdullah socially or worked with him were also questioned."

Even Mr. Almaki wasn't a known terrorist -- his travel patterns just exhibited terrorist patterns. And Mr. Arar was just a casual acquaintence of Mr. Almaki. For this, the U.S. government sent him to Syria to be tortured.
So now that the U.S. government is going to be sharing its "list" with private companies, where torture is condoned by the government for being on the list, it's no far stretch to imagine that private companies will refuse to hire anyone on the "list" and the U.S. will condone or encourage such use of the "list".

And it's not just casual acquaintences that are making the "list" -- political activists are already on it. Recall the case of Nancy Oden from the Sep. 29, 2002 UnderReported.com story Want to fly? What's your "risk score"?. She was a Green Party official who was refused to board a plane.