Quickly, because I don’t have a lot of time today. Via QandO:
It looks like the National ID card is all but assured now. Congress is set to pass a set of requirements on state driver licenses which will amount to a de facto National ID card, by sneaking them into an appropriations bill for the Iraq war.
Called the Real ID act, it would require states to require proof of citizenship or legal presence, proof of address, proof of Social Security number, as well as saving copies of all your supporting documents and an image of your face in a central database.
Adam Thierer, in an article written shortly after 9/11, explains why the National ID card will not help in the “war on terror,” but only erode Americans’ privacy and security even further.
Or to put it another way: In WWII we fought the Axis powers, who maintained strict controls over their populations and were famous for demanding papers of anyone at any time for no reason…among other things. Is this what the U.S. is to become? It’s completely the wrong way to fight terrorism, but it’s completely the right way to create a police state. Just ask Dudley Hiibel and John Gilmore.
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Karl Marx would love the popular moves among politicians in various state governments and the federal government to ban so-called "junk" food in schools, and to "put healthy food in" convenience stores and on the tables of those they define as poor. It's a very elitist and arrogant mindset that promotes this ideology, and it needs to be addressed.
Ultimately, the war supporters in Congress prevailed in the vote on the resolution. Still, the vote was significant because it places every member of Congress on the record as supporting or not supporting the unconstitutional, costly, violent occupation of a country that never attacked us. This vote should serve as an important reminder to the American people of where their representatives really stand when it comes to policing the world, empire building, and war.
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Mark J
May 05, 2005
I’m torn on this. Drivers licenses are already a fairly universal form of ID. And how else should we cut down on the rampant voter fraud in states that don’t require photo ID for voting purposes? Many places got more votes than they had eligible voters.
Michael Hampton
May 05, 2005
Mark,
This sounds more like a failure of the local election commissions to properly cross-check voters and determine who had voted or not. Requiring ID of voters won’t solve this problem, when someone can just go to two polling places, show the same ID, and vote twice, because the election commission doesn’t know how to, or refuses to, synchronize their data between polling places and between days. It’s quite possible to do this in real time and utterly prevent someone from voting twice, but I can’t think of anywhere offhand that does it.
Around here, during early voting, you could vote early at any open early voting place in the county. On election day, each voter had two polling places they could choose from, a primary and an alternate. But there was no evidence that the fact that someone had voted was being synchronized between the polling places. They did synchronize after the election, but by then it’s too late.
Jul 20, 2005
- IO ERROR
Nov 11, 2005
One year of homeland stupidity - IO ERROR
Jan 13, 2006
Real ID Act: You’re going to pay - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity
Jan 13, 2006
The Real ID nightmare - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity
Sep 01, 2006
REAL ID to cost states at least $2.5 billion - Homeland Stupidity
Sep 25, 2006
REAL ID costs: $11 billion, double time at DMV - Homeland Stupidity
Q
Sep 25, 2006
william cooper told everyone about these ID cards in 1988 and they called him crazy. this is all part of a much larger and more disgusting plan. take a step back people and look at the big picture.
no big brother
Jul 11, 2007
Wake up Americans! This Real ID Act is no more then a plan by the powers to be to control all, have you not read Rev. 13:16-18, this is just one of the first steps in making this come to pass.