Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:25:46 -0500
From: Steve Asher 
Subject: Al Gore's Electronic Agenda

Subject: [FP] Gore's Agenda for Global Electronic Government - Revealed!
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:21:02 -0600
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I've been saying for some time that the federal government is building a
totally electronic network to 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: This year, the federal government began issuing all
government checks electronically. Anyone who became "eligible" for a
government check - such as welfare, social security, veteran's pay, and of
course all employee payrolls - after 1996 is required, beginning in 1999, to
accept payment by direct bank deposit. All government contractors must also
accept payment electronically.

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)!

Al Gore has now announced a pilot (indoctrination) program that will allow
(force) college students to see how wonderful it is for the federal
government to provide for all their needs - electronically. Under the pilot
program, college students will be able to "use the Internet to get combined
government and commercial services." Notice the merging of government and
commercial endeavors? This is a key component of Al Gore's electronic
government. This used to be called socialism.

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."

You'll notice that the press release is full of comforting buzz words and
phrases, such as: "secure," "protection," "government services," "better
serve," and, "one-stop convenience."

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.

     Vice President Gore also reminds students that time is running out for
them to consolidate their school loans at a special low interest of 7.45%.

                                  -more-

     "Students can save hundreds of dollars in interest payments by
consolidating their school loans under the Education Department's direct
loan program," said the Vice President.

     "But they only have until January 31st -- just 16 more days -- to get
their loan consolidation applications post-marked or transmitted over the
World Wide Web (www.ed.gov)," Gore said.

     Applications postmarked or transmitted later will be approved at a
higher interest rate, one equal to the average rate of the loans being
consolidated.

      "The reinvented Education Department process for loan consolidation
is ready to handle the last minute crush," he added. "They are already
processing four times the initial volume of applications and doing it
faster than loan industry standards."

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[End Press Release]

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Cheers, Steve..