>>>>Bush administration (as well as the Brits) looking into a national
>>>>id card system. More at <http://www.drudgereport.com>.
>>>
>>>People in this country bitch about having to have a license to
>>>fish, drive a car, hunt, own a business, on and on and on, and
>>>they'd be willing to be forced to have what is essentially a
>>>license just to live and go about their business?
>>
>>Yeah, sheesh, it would really suck to have the government of the
>>country you reside in and pay taxes in require you to carry
>>identification acknowledging your right to be in that country.
>
>Yeah, and heaven forbid that if you should, say, collapse in the
>middle of the street, police or rescue workers might be able to use
>such an ID card to find out who you are so your family can be warned.
*sigh* Perhaps next time I should put enormous flashing signs that say "A
comment on America, not necessarily a position paper" on a post like that.
My point was that there will be a fair-sized portion of the American
population that will oppose this. There are those who will resist anything
that can be perceived as our government keeping tabs on us, bad or good, and
that was what my comment was intended to put across.
My post was a statement on A) the nature of Americans and B) the way people
immediately take extreme positions in the face of tragedy.
I don't expect people to be mind readers, but at least mull over the idea
behind a post before you pull out the flamethrower marked "mean-spirited
sarcasm." Does the idea make me a little uncomfortable? I won't lie, it
does. But it seems to me that certain people who whine about getting flamed
ought to be the last ones to take the safeties off their own 'throwers. But
that's just me, I could be wrong about that assumption.
Still, since you brought up the points:
Joshua, unless the U.S. is, indeed, looking to become a place wherein you
are randomly stopped and must present your ID to authorities, *how* is it
helping to acknowledge who is supposed to be in that country? Will those
who don't have them be unable to buy food? Or rent an apartment? You don't
think the idea of this will make a certain number of people in America just
the least bit uncomfortable?
Jeroen, between driver's licenses, credit cards, business ID's, and the
multidinous *other* forms of identification people already have, an ID card
would just be redundant. So your bit about having an ID card "so your
family can be warned" is BS. Another ID card only adds to the bureaucracy
that's already here; I doubt that all the other forms of ID that people
currently carry will suddenly go away. And that, too, will cause grumbling.
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