ID theft remains top concern for consumers

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Don't let Congress Get its Hands on This

Let us hope and pray, like never before, that Congress does not decide to tackle this issue, but leaves it up to the IT and software industries. Whenever Congress decides to enact legislation designed to protect the people, the people end up losing more of his freedoms and civil rights. Congress does not posses the know-how to resolve this matter. But when they see reports that indicate votes might hang in the balance, they rush headlong onto a bandwagon which they can boast of to their constituency!

Identity theft does, indeed, seem to be a major concern of computer users. Rightly so. After all, the foundation for laying siege to and invading the personal computer was laid at the time that PC makers, and especially OS makers, were dangling irresistible carrots in front of the vast potential market of consumers. Let?s see a show of hands: how many of you believe that spyware, adware, viruses, Trojan Horses, and other malignancies to which computers are vulnerable were the result of advertent errors or misjudgment, as opposed to being a deliberate part of the original design and purposes of early PC makers?

It should come as no fact, especially to anyone whose experience with PCs goes as far back as the Commodore 64, that in order to control future legislation of the embryonic industry it was necessary to provide deeply hidden but unmistakably real paths by which the government could eventually take control of this powerful new weapon.

Mark my words: if Congress is allowed to meddle in this issue, their field of influence will not be limited to defining certain actions as criminal with appropriate penalties assessed, that body of clueless, spineless, and downright ignorant legislators will try to dictate behaviors, acceptable and unacceptable actions, and will, furthermore, try to delineate between criminal and victim (which will do little more than cloud the issue).

Every elected representative takes an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States; yet, they seem to relish seeing just how far they can go to abrogate and suspend our freedoms and rights without doing so with one or two grandiose strokes of the pen! Several Senators confessed that the PATRIOT Act was so unconscionably long and intricate, they simply didn?t have time to read it all. Ninety-nine Senators voted FOR that Act, which illegally suspended several parts of the Bill of Rights, without having the foggiest idea of what the legislation contained. They will tell you, themselves, that they simply don?t have time to read everything pertaining to the laws they pass.

So, please, Lord, don?t allow Congress to do anything more than rant and rave on the issue of Identity Theft. Let us hope that they do what they do so well: make speeches and a lot of noise, promise appropriate action, feign indignation, and agree to try to work on it in subcommittee!

Posted by: bobinvegas@...   Posted on: 02/13/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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