condition Care Reform and National Id Cards

Recently passed condition care reform (Hc bill) raises a multitude of issues with regard to personal privacy and government intrusion into peoples' lives.

For instance:

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Page 58 contains the following statement: Government will have real-time way to individuals' finance & a National Id condition card will be issued.

Page 59 contains the following statement: Government will have direct way to your bank accounts for optional funds transfer.

Looking at the text, it is not difficult to form out that the government intrusion is implied. The examine is, to what extent.

I grew up under communism, or rather witnessed the transition from a general society to communism. It was not pleasant, to say the least. The country was Romania, citizen of 23 million, shortly after it fell under Soviet control.

Granted, communism was greatest in its police powers.

The gift authoritarian presidency in conjunction with a like Congress, makes it somehow worrisome and we just have to be prepared for the consequences.

The following is based on my experience, while growing up.

Growing up under communism and National Id Card

There is much talk in this country about a national Id card to be used by government entities, to administrate assorted programs, together with illegal immigration, condition care, criminals, and so on. I am dismayed how naive citizen supporting this thought are, and for a good reason. They have not witnessed the possible misuse of it, especially when the government has too much power.

As soon as the communists took hold of power, what do you think the first thing they did?

They implemented a mandatory national Id card. The communists believed in the thought of construction a new society for the People. citizen to them were the poor, oppressed and the trodden.

The communist motto states: If You Are Not With Me, You Are My Enemy. If you are my enemy, you must be marginalized or destroyed.

This was the essence of the Id card. The communist government wants to know its enemy, where the enemy lives, and most importantly, marginalize the enemy by controlling its movements. Guess who the possible enemy is? You the personel are the possible enemy!

This is the same thought our government uses today to screen all the airline boarding passengers.

The Id card was adopted by Stalin in the Soviet Union and copied by all the Eastern European Countries, once under Soviet / Communist control.

In a nutshell, the Id card did not use something equivalent with group safety number. It did not have to. It was a very easy card, like a small passport. It had the name, date of birth and most importantly, the home address.

The communists declared all cities: fulfilled, City arbitrarily.

This government determine required an legal approval for whatever trying to relocate from one town to another, even while changing jobs. In fact, changing jobs had to be stylish by the government since it owned the enterprises providing the jobs. Every personel was a government employee either you worked for a bakery, chocolate factory or for the army.

When you traveled and spend the night in a dissimilar city you had to go to the police middle point in man and description where you were staying that night, even if you stayed with relatives or friends. The hotels handled that for you. There were police road blocks at night inspecting the Id cards. If you did not have an Id card, you were arrested. Police never reported these arrests to the family. You just disappeared - for years.

Stalin used the Id card to the fullest. He conscripted educated managers, engineers, doctors, and sent them to the non-Russian speaking Soviet Union nations hoping to annihilate and control the local cultures and its people. Think Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan even Ukraine. They were forced to live in these places for at least five years. They could not quit and leave, because the Id card would not allow them to apply for other job in a dissimilar city. The government had full control of each and all individuals even in a large country like Soviet Union.

condition Care Reform and National Id Cards

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