“Big Brother” Presidential Directive: “Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security”

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, June 11, 2008

The latest Big Brother police state measure emanating from the Bush administration, with virtually no press coverage, is NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) entitled Biometrics for Identification and Screening to Enhance National Security [Complete text of NSPD 59 (HSPD 24) in Annex below]

NSPD is directed against US citizens….

…The database also could include legal judgments or other public records documenting involvement in legal disputes, child custody records and marriage or divorce records.”([1] See Jerome Corsi, June 2008) ….

…In a previous 2004 report of the Homeland Security Council entitled Planning Scenarios, the enemy was referred to as the Universal Adversary (UA).

The Universal Adversary was identified in the scenarios as an abstract entity used for the purposes of simulation. Yet upon more careful examination, this Universal Adversary was by no means illusory. It included the following categories of potential “conspirators”:

“foreign [Islamic] terrorists” ,

“domestic radical groups”, [antiwar and civil rights groups]

“state sponsored adversaries” [”rogue states”, “unstable nations”]

“disgruntled employees” [labor and union activists]….

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