Explain to me how the National ID card is so depressingly worse than the established use of SSIDs/drivers licenses/state IDs throughout current American society.
My main concern is enforcement. Will it become the defacto law to carry them? Already my nigh-refusal to show my driver's license makes it difficult for me to enter federal (public!) buildings, buy alcohol, enter assorted private buildings (harvard), fly... I mix it up with passport and student id.
Also, I have Jewish paranoia. It has never, in the history of the world, turned out well when people were asked to carry "papers".
Also, Homeland Security -- which is not subject to normal due process, remember -- will have immediate access to state info. And remember, that red tape is not mere bureaucracy. It's the legal system which protects us.
Incidentally it's also hugely anti-states' rights but that doesn't bother me except as hypocrisy.
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Also, I have Jewish paranoia. It has never, in the history of the world, turned out well when people were asked to carry "papers".
Also, Homeland Security -- which is not subject to normal due process, remember -- will have immediate access to state info. And remember, that red tape is not mere bureaucracy. It's the legal system which protects us.
Incidentally it's also hugely anti-states' rights but that doesn't bother me except as hypocrisy.
Some links:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/
http://www.unrealid.com/
http://aila.org/contentViewer.aspx?bc=9,594,8140,9251
http://www.urban75.org/legal/id.html