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Whatever
Happened To America? Excerpt from Chapter 13: War Powers, Codified
Two of the strangest features of the aborted Clinton Health Security Act of 1993 would have been the introduction of both a National Identity Card and a global monitoring system that would allow government officials to restrict interstate travel.
In the disavowed November 11, 1993 White House Protocol, the discussion was centered on the Identity Card since it was obvious at that time that Hillary Clinton's healthcare reform bill was in deep trouble in both the House and Senate. The subject was first broached by the President who "...stresses the necessity of having all Americans being required to carry such a card...[to]...simplify the task of law enforcement...and...allow various federal agencies to keep track of a population that is too highly mobile." As the various reports of the Clinton Healthcare Task Force uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act and retrieved from their "documental tombs" in the National Archive where they had been adroitly buried among other meaningless reams of White House papers, a curious and alarming pattern of deception began to take shape.
Among the promises of the swan song of universal healthcare in the Clinton documents is one "ugly duckling" that does not belong in any bill dealing with healthcare--the Intelligent Vehicle/Highway System (IV/HS). In its synopsis of IV/HS, the Diebold Group (which prepared the study for the Clinton White House) declared that the work they had undertaken "...is an international cooperative effort whose goal is to assess the value of information technology in societal infrastructures and, where appropriate, bring about policy conditions which facilitate its development and application...Public infrastructures that could be improved by information technology including road transportation...In the next stage of the project, we expect to carry out the work outlined in the above paragraphs. Our results will be reviewed with the key participants and public policy groups. In parallel, we shall be disseminating our results both in the United States and abroad. This process has already begun with presentations to the Council on Foreign Relations...and the Centre for European Studies, Brussels."
In Diebold Working Paper #6, prepared by Professor Kan Chen on the IV/HS tracking system, it is noted that the system is already being used experimentally in England, where it is called TrafficMaster. The system was set up on the M25 motorway, but the British Department of Transporatation is contemplating expansion into the "A-roads" in the London area.
Looking at its use in America, the report cautions that "...IV/HS may be perceived by some as conflicting with other important societal goals such as privacy, environmental control, local democracy, and competing with other solutions to highway problems. First and foremost in people's minds is privacy. Automatic vehicle location could be misused by unauthorized persons or organizations. It could be used by the government for purposes other than originally intended." From a public perspective, IV/HS offers some beneficial aspects which will very likely be touted by the White House that ultimately seeks to implement the program as a means to continuously monitor the highway system of America for signs of "...deterioration and structural weakness in bridges and tunnels...through a network of probes imbedded into the physical infrastructure." These probes, however, are necessary to monitor the whereabouts of vehicles between the major "checkpoints" which will be established at major highway intersections.
The report details that "Traffic will be managed on the main roads of major metropolitan areas through controlling road junctions and access to major routes." IV/HS can, and likely will, be used to control the flow of traffic on congested arteries around the major cities as an alternative to HOV restrictions since it will allow the government the ability to assess tolls on all vehicles (automatically withdrawn from your e.money account} as you pass through the checkpoint. "Through automatic vehicle identification and automatic toll collection, the way is opened to variable pricing of access to roadways [congestion pricing]."
Most motorists who travel the beltways around most of the major cities in America will be affected, but few will complain since those who do not wish to pay an access toll to travel the congested roadways will be obligated to seek alternate routes, thereby lightening the traffic. However, there is a downside that the government, in promoting IV/HS as an alternative to HOV lanes, will likely not mention. Just as the government will have the ability to permit access to those arteries, they will also have the ability to deny it.
Part of the plan is centered on an experiment to control interstate highway access to those commercial vehicles that currently come under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commisssion. "Commercial vehicle operators will receive regulatory documents [permits, registrations, etc.] for multiple states in a single transaction, and automatic weight checking as needed, without requiring the vehicle to stop." Again, it sounds like progress. However, when viewed next to Bill Clinton's concerns about the mobility of American citizens in the disavowed White House Protocol of November 11, 1993, warning flags go up. IV/HS could be used just as easily to restrict interstate travel. Add to that the statement in the disavowed White House Protocol that the National Identity Card could, and likely would, be used as an "internal passport," it is obvious that, combined with IV/HS, the use of an internal passport is the logical first step in restricting the movement of a population.
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