The federal government is building a totally electronic network that will be used to monitor, track, and control the citizenry. The pieces are being put into place at a ever-more-rapid pace.
This week, at his conference on "Electronic Government" held in Washington D.C., Vice President Al Gore revealed a great deal more about the agenda for citizen control.

For background:

On April 26, 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA). This legislation requires the use of electronic funds transfer (EFT) for Federal payments, with the exception of tax refunds, starting January 2, 1999.

In September 1998, the Department of the Treasury enacted a regulation to implement the requirements of the DCIA. 31 CFR Part 208 sets out the requirements for individuals who receive Federal benefit, wage, salary, or retirement payments. All of these must now be received using "direct deposit," Electronic Funds Transfer, (EFT).

Federal benefits paid out electronically are referred to as Electronic Benefit Transfers or EBT. Also within the definition of EBT are Federal/State programs under which a recipient who receives benefit payments from both the Federal government and a State government can receive his or her payments through the same system. This is consistent with the National Performance Review implementation plan for nationwide EBT. Federal agencies are encouraged, in partnership with State and local governments, to develop a nationwide integrated EBT system utilizing the existing commercial infrastructure to provide combined access to Federal payments and State-administered benefits for a recipient on a single card.

Another piece of the network is the banking industry "know your customer" identification and monitoring program. The federal government is requiring all banks to implement KYC measures - and to install the necessary electronic monitoring systems - so that all financial transactions can be tracked. Anyone who will not "identify" themselves to the system - using whatever means of identification THEY ultimately dictate - will not be able to conduct business. Period! Already, it is illegal to deposit or withdraw over $10,000 without presentation of identification. Even with identification, the bank must report the transaction on a federal form. No exceptions. Additionally, anyone who wishes to purchase a money order (including a Postal Money Order) in amounts over $3,000 must give a social security number. If they refuse, they may be issued the money order, but a "suspicious transaction" report will be filed on them with a federal agency - without their knowledge.

The federal "New Hires Registry" program requires every employer in every state to report to a central database the name, address, social security number, and amount of wage of each newly hired employee. Under the "deadbeat dads" legislation, every licensing agency in every state is required to obtain a social security number from every license applicant; this information also goes into a central data registry. The purpose of these two information collection laws, as stated in the Welfare Reform Act and the Illegal Immigration Act (both of which were passed in 1996) is to develop a network for "locating and tracking" individuals. Those were the words used
in the Act.

The ultimate objective with all of this "electronic government" spy network is to provide a direct and almost constant link between the "electronic" federal government and the people. A primary goal of this system is to be able to extract TAX payments AT WILL. The intent is to have a system in place which will allow federal agencies to KNOW exactly how much you make (and where you make it); how much you spend (and where you spend it); and how much tax you will pay (and YOU WILL PAY IT - ELECTRONICALLY)!

According to an article appearing in The Seattle Times, (Jan. 20, 1995, pp. A1, A12) by Frank Greve of Knight-Ridder Newspapers entitled, "IRS plans know-all database on you," the IRS began an $8 billion computer and software upgrade that would be used to compile detailed financial reports on citizens by gathering electronic information from credit reports, news stories, tips from informants, commercial databases, and real-estate, motor-vehicle and child-support records.

The upgrade, which began in 1995, was due to have been completed by 2008. The intent was to enable the IRS gather enough information to eventually eliminate the need for tax returns. Coleta Brueck, the IRS's top document-processing official explained in the Times article how the system would work:

"If I know what you've made during the year, if I know what your withholding is, if I know what your spending pattern is, I should be able to generate a tax return so that I only come to you and tell you, 'This is what I think you should file for the next year, and if you agree to that, then don't bother sending me a piece of paper.'"

"We know everything about you that we need to know. Your employer tells us everything about you that we need to know. Your activity records on your credit cards tell us everything about you that we need to know. Through interface with Social Security, with the DMV, with your banking institutions, we really have a lot of information, so why ... at the end of the year or on April 15, do we ask the Post Office to encumber itself with massive numbers of people out there, with picking up pieces of paper that you are required to file? ... I don't know why. We could literally file a return for you. This is the future we'd like to go to."

[Chicago Tribune, January 20, 1995, also "Wired" Magazine article, "E-Money (That's What I Want)," by Steven Levy December 1994]

A major part of the college campus "pilot" program is electronic tax filing. They'll also learn how to get loans from their government so they can be perpetually indentured. The press release says the students can even "request an address change?" How about: request an occupation change? And, as an added bonus, the students can even fill out an electronic request form asking the government for permits to go camping during their time off from (labor) camp[us].

What's the purpose of this college campus pilot program? It's to refine the system so that when YOU are forced to use it in the near future, there'll be no escape. All the "bugs" will have been worked out by then.

Here's what Al Gore said about the purpose of the "electronic government" pilot program:

"The technology exists today to provide the necessary protection to conduct highly sensitive financial transactions online," said the Vice President. "Our aim in this pilot is to prove these same technologies are sufficiently secure for people to do business with the government."

These same indoctrinated college students will themselves be running Al Gore's electronic government in the very near future. By that time - once they have achieved positions of "authority" - they will have been living "under the government's thumb" for several years. They will "owe" everything to the government - literally. There'll be NO escape for them. Do you think THEY will entertain rebellious attitudes, or an "alternative" social order? No.

Anyone who is concerned about the possibility of the millenium bug crashing the global computer system - and there certainly is cause for concern - better be equally concerned about the possibility that we could just sail right through 2000; in which case, electronic technology would be hailed as the salvation of mankind, - a god in its own right - and Al Gore's totally "electronic government" would become unstoppable. Which of these is the more frightening scenario? An equally frightening thought is that there is a very real possibility that Gore is about to become our President.

Scott McDonald

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[Press Release]

January 15, 1999

VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT SERVICES TO BETTER
SERVE STUDENTS

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Vice President
______________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release Contact:
Friday, January 15, 1999 (202) 456-7035

VICE PRESIDENT GORE ANNOUNCES ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT SERVICES TO BETTER
SERVE STUDENTS

Administration Pilots Service for Post-Secondary Students
to Get Combined Government and Commercial Services over the Internet

Washington, DC -- Vice President Gore announced today that, starting
this fall, college students will be able to use the Internet to get
combined government and commercial services.

The Vice President unveiled Access America for Students today at the
Global Forum on Reinventing Government. The Access America for Students
action plan refocuses the delivery of federal electronic services across
agency boundaries to better serve the needs of post-secondary students who
need government services.

"We need to make effective use of today's technology to improve
citizen services and reduce government costs," Vice President Gore said.
"This pilot program will provide the basis for continued efforts to make
online government transactions available to any customer that wishes to
receive services electronically."

Access America for Students pilot projects will be conducted this
fall on sixcampuses -- DeVry Institute of Technology in Illinois, New York
University, Tarrant County Junior College in Texas, the University of
Florida, the University of Missouri at Kansas City, the University of
Northern Colorado, and the Western Governor's University in Utah. George
Washington University, Iowa State University, and Tennessee State
University will participate in an advisory capacity.

Initial federal services offered in the pilot include: student loan
qualification, student aid application and allocation, requests for address
changes, application for veteran student benefits, tax filing, passport
applications, as well as online campsite reservations and applications for
backwoods permits.

Commercial services, such as card-based purchases both on campus and
with local merchants, can bundled with the government services to provide
one-stop convenience. The pilot project will also investigate the benefits
of implementing a common student account structure to consolidate
educational loans and to allow account management through the existing
commercial electronic payment infrastructure.

A key objective of the pilot test is demonstrating ways to insure
the privacy of the information shared by students with the agency and
commercial service providers. Students who take part in this pilot test
will use electronic identification methods, such as digital signatures
and student certificates.

"The technology exists today to provide the necessary protection
to conduct highly sensitive financial transactions online," said the Vice
President. "Our aim in this pilot is to prove these same technologies
are sufficiently secure for people to do business with the government."

Federal agencies, industry partners, and academic institutions have
embraced the Access America for Students plan as a way to align resources
to better serve their student customers, to eliminate duplication of
effort, and to enable complete government transactions to be done over the
Internet. Pilot agencies will accept confirmation from a participating
university or college that a student is currently registered on campus as
proof of identification needed to authorize the requested federal service.
Methods used to store this proof-of-identity, making it transportable for
ready reuse, will include a variety of card technologies and personal
identification numbers (PINs), already in use on most of the pilot
campuses.

Students at the pilot schools will have an opportunity to use
three new features: (1) a single website to access government services
electronically, (2) an electronic ID, and (3) a single, integrated student
account.

The role of the school does not change under Access America for
Students. Schools will continue their traditional role as primary point
of contact for students. They will continue to determine a student?s
eligibility and aid package. They will continue to select their own
banking partners and to receive all student aid money up front to be
applied to the student account, and they will calculate and apply credit
balances to student bank accounts.

Similarly, the role of the lender does not change in the new
program either. Banks and other lending institutions will continue to play
the vital role of providing education funds to students and working with
their school partners to provide access to funds. They will continue
providing campus card services, student bank accounts, and other services.
And, along with the schools, lenders will play an advisory role in the
development of a common process and student aid account

Pilot tests will be conducted in the fall of 1999, with plans to
expand to larger demonstration projects with a larger number of campuses
participating in 2000, and, to make the service available to all students
with access to the Internet in 2001.

Student input as the plan was developed was essential to ensure
their needs were properly addressed. Continued feedback from the testing
student population will be gathering throughout the pilot to measure the
initiatives effectiveness in achieving its goals and to ensure the
service evolves to match the growing needs of future college-bound
students. Other customers for whom bundled electronic government services
are planned include businesses, seniors, government employees, and, law
enforcement. A similar series of tests will be conducted for these groups
over the next two years.

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[End Press Release]

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