National ID Cards - Coming Soon to Your Wallet

[Tone]

I'm ok with it - I'm a proud owner of a US Passport and understand the difficulty in verifying 50 states differing driver's licenses and varying requirements to obtain one. What they do with any data is another thing but every stop by police now generates an entry into a database. Every credit card transaction is online somewhere so I don't see it as any big deal unless you are hiding something. Of course there are other countries accepting citizens....

[WyrreJ]

I don't see it as any big deal unless you are hiding something.

Tone, you are the last person I would have thought would buy into the "only the guilty have something to hide" fallacy. In other areas you seem to relish pushing the boundries, for example reselling uncertified HID kits which itself is a black and white violation of NHTSA rules. Particularly when such a violation of our constitutional rights won't even serve the purpose that it is being sold as - namely increasing our safety. National ID cards can only make us less safe, not more.

Maybe you are unfamiliar with the reference - internal passports are what countries like China and the former USSR require their citizens to maintain in order to simply travel within the boarders of the country. Those are not the kind of countries we should be taking our cues from.

Of course there are other countries accepting citizens....

I'm with Senator Carl Schurz on this one, he said:
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right!"