I'm going to be writing in detail about this case, so I will put off blogging about it until I have my ideas sorted, but let me just say for now that Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Humboldt County looks to be a major, major privacy/civil liberties case.
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For some extensive history & background on this subject, buy “National Identification Systems” by Carl Watner & Wendy McElroy, published recently. I see it is available at http://www.amazon.com
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