A message from The Liberty Committee

ACTION ALERT

October 7, 2004


The U.S. House is debating and will soon vote on H.R. 10, the 9/11
Recommendations Implementation Act. This 542-page bill is so full of "hastily-
and ill-conceived anti-gun, anti-freedom provisions" (Larry Pratt, Gun Owners of
America) that you would need hours to learn them all. But thanks to an
exhaustive analysis done by Gun Owners of America, we know the following
critical points:

1. H.R. 10 takes the final step to establish the driver’s license as a national
ID card.
2. H.R. 10 authorizes the establishment of an enormous database containing
personal information on American citizens.

H.R. 10-SECTION 3052 (NATIONAL ID): This section would take the final step
toward establishing the driver's license as a national ID card. Attorneys from
groups ranging from the conservative Gun Owners of America and the National
Taxpayers Union to the liberal American Civil Liberties Union have reached the
same conclusion.

As the Washington Times reported today, "More than 30 advocacy, civil liberties
and conservative groups sent letters to every senator Sept. 20 predicting that
the September 11 commission report would lead to a national ID card and asked
that it be rejected." H.R. 10 contains a national ID card provision, section
3052.

H.R. 10–SECTION 2173 (NATIONAL DATABASES): This section would explicitly
authorize an enormous national database of private information on American
citizens; including financial records and, potentially, medical records. And --
to the very end -- regulators fought to be allowed to maintain this database,
not just on suspected terrorists, but on every American.

In addition to creating a national ID card and database:

1. H.R. 10 will seek more integration of our foreign policy with that of the
U.N. (Section 4032).
2. H.R. 10 will train U.S. diplomats to be more attuned with the United Nations
and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and other
anti-democratic globalist organizations (Section 4034). The OSCE will be
sending over 100 foreign observers to monitor the U.S. elections on Nov. 2, as
reported by the Washington Times today.
3. H.R. 10 will create a new U.S. "ambassador-at-large" to work with U.N.
nongovernmental organizations or NGOs. This would set a very dangerous
precedent (Section 4035).

We could go on, but won't.

According to Congressman Ron Paul, "The 9-11 Recommendation Implementation bill
(HR 10) is yet another attempt to address the threat of terrorism by giving more
money and power to the federal bureaucracy. The result of most of the reforms
contained in this bill will not likely be a safer America, but will definitely
be a less free America."

And as Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America stated, "...this bill is not about
'security' or 'terrorism,' but about political posturing in an election year –-
at the expense of individual liberties."

We strongly oppose H.R. 10 and ask you to urge your U.S. representative to vote
"no" on final passage of H.R. 10. To send your message, go to
http://capwiz.com/liberty/issues/alert/?alertid=6525316&type=CO

Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org

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