I am Part of the Loud Minority
January 13th, 2008 at 9:54 pm (General, National Politics)
The very eloquent and articulate, not to mention hard-working Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales has described the people opposed to the National ID System as a “loud minority.” It is this loud minority, he says that are misrepresenting the “popular will” of the real majority.
According to the very hard-working Norberto Gonzales a national ID is similar to a school ID. Let’s see… a school ID is used to allow a student to enter the school campus. A school ID allows the school administration, faculty, and staff to know a student’s name, his year and section, and other such information. How is a national ID similar to a school ID? I don’t know.
Gonzales even goes the distance in attacking those opposed by implying these people just don’t want their ages to be known:
Gonzales said the government can exclude any information majority of the Filipinos don’t want to be included in the national ID.
“Kung ayaw niyo ilagay natin yung edad niyo, then let’s not,” Gonzales said smiling.
How very mature and logical of Gonzales to assume that.
Dear Norberto Gonzales,
Rather than attacking those opposed to the plan and insulting their intelligence, why don’t you explain clearly what information the ID will contain, and what purpose it will serve that our passports, Postal ID, Voter’s ID, SSS ID, GSIS ID, NBI Clearance, Police Clearance, and other IDs will not serve? If this very good, very nice, very useful national ID will consolidate all the information and purposes of these other IDs then consider my opposition to the ID system gone.
Sincerely Yours,
Maria A. Jose
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cocoy said,
January 13, 2008 at 10:21 pm
while it would be absolutely great to consolidate all that information into one single “id”… (i’m a huge fan of reducing complexity), i can’t help but think “single point of failure”.
i don’t think it is the wisest thing in the world to let one entity— any entity be it government or whatnut to have /that/ great a control over my identity. just look at all that hoopla a few months back about identity theft.
that said, some conspiracy theorists are saying this is just one step to make it easier for government to “track” people. well, i don’t think government is that smart. they already have all the necessary information through passports, driver’s id, etc. etc. if they were /that/ smart, who would need legislation? would they need to ask permission for data they already have? if google mines data from all sorts of places, imagine the power governments and other entities have knowing what they know? could this be another way for someone to make money off yet another scheme? don’t we have better things to do?
drilling down to just the philippine government… seriously can they pull off protecting and mining and managing all 80+ million Filipinos’ information? heck major banks in the world with greater experience have it tough. we can’t even get EDSA to be pothole free or have our weather bureau predict how much rainfall we’re getting.
I quite agree with you, “how very mature”. People and government should watch their comments because in a world where we have too many important things to do, such remarks don’t exactly spark a whole lot of confidence and only says a lot about how smart or capable those running the shorts really are.
Jehzeel H. Laurente said,
January 13, 2008 at 11:53 pm
*nose-bleed*…
hehehehe… year 2000 pa ang ID na yan
i bet til 2010 wala parin yan 
yiheeeeeeeee!
nabubuhay naman tayo kahit walang “NATIONAL ID” diba? kaya ok lang kung magkaroon or di magkaroon ^_^ toink!
weeeeeeeee!
Do is me point have???