"Arguments for: Identity cards can be a useful administrative tool that can increase efficiency in dealings with both the government and private companies.Cards may help reduce immigration service bureaucracy. In certain countries, the procedures for deporting illegal immigrants whose ages, identities or nationalities cannot be formally established are more complex than those for whom they can be readily asserted. This gives illegal immigrants more time to prepare their legal defence. In some countries (Spain, for instance) it may prevent the immigrant's deportation altogether. However, in this situation most illegal immigrants will destroy their identity papers, nullifying the reduction in bureaucracy." , 6 -7 http://science.slashdot.org/story... - Thomas Page

The case for and against identity cards http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... ps1-11 airport screening http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... Orson Welles on Privacy, the Passport and Personal Rights http://www.thejanuarist.com/orson-w... http://www.schneier.com/ As circular as it sounds, rare events are rare primarily because they don't occur very often, and not because of any preventive security measures. If you want to do something that makes security sense, figure out what's common among a bunch of rare events, and concentrate your countermeasures there. Focus on the general risk of terrorism, and not the specific threat of airplane bombings using PETN-filled underwear. Focus on the general risk of troubled teens, and not the specific threat of a lone gunman wandering around a school. Ignore the movie-plot threats, and concentrate on the real risks. http://www.amazon.com/review... In Beyond Fear, Bruce Schneier invites us to take a critical look at not just the threats to our security, but the ways in which we're encouraged to think about security by law enforcement agencies, businesses of all shapes and sizes, and our national governments and militaries. Schneier believes we all can and should be better security consumers, and that the trade-offs we make in the name of security - in terms of cash outlays, taxes, inconvenience, and diminished freedoms - should be part of an ongoing negotiation in our personal, professional, and civic lives, and the subject of an open and informed national discussion. With a well-deserved reputation for original and sometimes iconoclastic thought, Schneier has a lot to say that is provocative, counter-intuitive, and just plain good sense. He explains in detail, for example, why we need to design security systems that don't just work well, but fail well, and why secrecy on the part of government often undermines security. He also believes, for instance, that national ID cards are an exceptionally bad idea: technically unsound, and even destructive of security. And, contrary to a lot of current nay-sayers, he thinks online shopping is fundamentally safe, and that many of the new airline security measure (though by no means all) are actually quite effective. A skeptic of much that's promised by highly touted technologies like biometrics, Schneier is also a refreshingly positive, problem-solving force in the often self-dramatizing and fear-mongering world of security pundits. ps4-1 How Privacy Vanishes Online http://www.nytimes.com/2010... , sort pstp 11 -14 http://www.thestar.com/iphone... , - Thomas Page

Bruce Schneier's TSA logo redesign contest http://www.boingboing.net/2010... ps1-15 http://www.schneier.com/blog... , ps4-2 US to start profiling as part of air security checks http://news.bbc.co.uk/2... - Thomas Page

Are You Ready for a Biometric Social Security Card? http://www.time.com/time... ps4-2 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archive... , http://news.cnet.com/8301-13... , http://online.wsj.com/article... ps6-12 http://www.findbiometrics.com/ , pstp 8-9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

In praise of Michael Roberts, body-scan rebel The pilot who wouldn't play along with TSA's security theater had the right response to our creeping police state http://www.salon.com/technol... - Thomas Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , https://www.schneier.com/blog... - Thomas Page

Bruce Schneier: The security mirage http://www.ted.com/talks... How Wasteful is Spending on Homeland Security? http://www.themonkeycage.org/2011... , 5 -3 Is America spending too much on homeland security? http://www.economist.com/blogs... , - Thomas Page

Rant. Loss of The American Way. When did the US become the Homeland? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.dhs.gov/index.shtm 5 -9 We cannot get there by building bigger and better defenses, or by doubling military budgets. We can't get there by hyping every possible threat by always seeking comment from people who have a vested interest in hyping every possible threat. Look around the nation. Government facilities across the country are now hemmed in by walls, bollards, guards, fences, and barbed wire, designed to keep the terrorists at bay. When you think about it, we are running the risk of becoming bin Laden, penned in by fear and determined to keep the infidels away. http://battleland.blogs.time.com/2011... , 9 -29 http://nation.time.com/author... - Thomas Page

Statue of Liberty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Columbia (name) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 10 -21 Lady Justice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

~ Homeland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... isn't really an American word, it's not something we used to say or say now".[1] ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... ~ Because of the use of Vaterland in German war propaganda, the term "Fatherland" in English has become associated with domestic British and American anti-Nazi propaganda during World War II.~ [[[ native land ? World melting pot ? ]]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , sort ~ Jacob Appelbaum asserts, "to be free of suspicion is the most important right to be truly free". But with most people having a limited understanding of this world of cyber surveillance and how to protect ourselves, are our basic freedoms already being lost? ~ Kafka, meet Orwell: peek behind the scenes of the modern surveillance state http://boingboing.net/2013... , 7 -15 http://www.businessweek.com/article... , 9 -11 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... , [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , [[[ Hiemat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

8 -1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Security theatre border BS money achieved what? Kids from Guatemala http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and Honduras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... getting through? 7 -24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

7 -24 North America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... set Central America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... set [ Venn [[ NAFTA The continent is delimited on the southeast by most geographers at the Darién watershed along the Colombia-Panama border, placing all of Panama within North America.[21][22][23] Alternatively, some geologists physiographically locate its southern limit at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, with Central America extending southeastward to South America from this point.[24] The Caribbean islands, or West Indies, are considered part of North America.[1] - Thomas Page

Shadow Economies result of decades of lame immigration policies? [ Foreign Relations with Mexico [[ the 100 states , something a guy use to say , you ( he is) are the biggest ___ in the 100 states, usually an insult. Actual number of states is ? 7 -22 ( 31 ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Canada number of provinces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 13 us Caribbean affiliates ? - Thomas Page

Gringo Bullshiters ... 7 -22 Citizenship thru reproduction , the realities and reasons ... Complexity deal with it. [[ misc sort Giant_(1956_film)#Themes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Immigration Reform ... [ bdi why? 5Ws [[ Identity of ... [[[ civic ... [[[[ Labor Realities - Forked Tongue Two Facers | supply and demand , free markets in Illegalities , [[[[[ The Border https://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[[[[[ Historic Policies of Citizenship - Guest Workers ect , present , options for future ... {{{{[[[[ immigration law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

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Complexity deal with it , Accountability ... - Thomas Page