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From: tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!))
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,talk.politics.drugs,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Clinton wants National ID card, aka USSR-style "Internal Passport"
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Date: 21 Apr 93 18:34:01 GMT
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johnston@cyberia.win.net (Robert Johnston) writes:
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>>How 'bout we embed the `card` in the forhead of everyones skull ? 
>>Can't lose it without being already dead (ergo, no need for treatment).
>>
>Close, at birth we implant a smart chip just behind the ear under the skin but
>above the skull.  We incase it in a hypo-allergenic high carbon content
>glass.  This chip would be reprogrammed as we age with the pertinent
>medical, correctional, taxational data.  Behave yourself or we'll 
>input it into your permenant record.

     You forgot the part about encasing it in a small shaped charge so that
if anyone tries to tamper with it, it explodes and kills you.

     Oh, and the shaped charge can be set off by remote control...but only
if you get out of line. Properly patriotic citizens have nothing to fear.

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