[hchutch]

I didn't have to wait in line or show up anywhere for those.

As I said earlier, I find the notion of having to get a passport when I don't really think I'll be even leaving the country to be mildly unsettling, to say the least. Look up the Lemuel Penn case. The notion of requiring passports for everyone is too close to the type of things that the former residents of #2 Dzherzhinsky Square would do, and I do not wish for the United States of America to become a nation which uses such methods.

I'm also not necessarily a libertarian, much less "libertine", although on social/cultural issues, I find both the Left's forced notions of political correctness and the right's prudishness/intolerance unsettling. I find a home with the neo-cons for the most part, though. I don't like the paleos at Chronciles, and think VDARE (which you have a link to on your profile page - I believe Jim Robinson has prohibited such links) tolerates bigotry at a minimum.

I must be some sort of conservative heretic in your mind, but I really don't care what you think.

[traditionalist]

the notion of requiring passports for everyone is too close to the type of things that the former residents of #2 Dzherzhinsky Square would do, and I do not wish for the United States of America to become a nation which uses such methods.

The UK does it, as does most of Western Europe. I believe Austrialia and New Zeland do it. Most of the free world does it. Your objections are based on pure emotion and are totally irrational.