Posted on 03/13/2010 9:29:38 AM PST by smokingfrog
All United States citizens may be required to carry a biometric I.D. card!
That's not Orwell's Big Brother speaking. Rather Democrat Chuck Schumer (D- New York), and Republican Lindsay Graham (R- South Carolina) have devised new legislation to mandate that every worker carry a government I.D. card to prove his citizenship. The card must be carried every day and may be checked by employers and any governmental authority upon request.
All U.S. citizens would be required to carry an ID cards according to this plan. It's meant to keep companies from hiring illegal immigrants. No matter where you apply for a job, under the plan, you would have to have a card carrying bio-metric information on a microchip. It's like your fingerprints, or a scan of the veins in your hands.
Even the ACLU is not backing this transparent attempt to force a mandatory national I.D. onto 300 million Americans.
We're talking about fingerprinting every single American worker, and that card, in turn, will probably be used not only to work but also to travel, to vote, perhaps even to own a gun.
Senator Graham, in response to these privacy concerns said, "This program would not expand like that." I wouldn't want to call the Senator a liar, but that is a breathtaking level of naivety for a U.S. senator.
National I.D. cards are nothing new, totalitarian regimes revel in the ability to disallow travel, financial transactions, and food distribution for those who don't have the proper papers. A microchip on the card opens the door for the inclusion of non-medical information such as political or union affiliations, criminal or civil judgments, and with the addition of a GPS chip, all travel activity around town and overseas.
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“Have respect for the dead and for those who fought to keep us safe and use other words if you are going to call someone names.”
NO one called you or anyone a ‘name’, so get over yourself.
Someone posted the name of a book and you got bent out of shape.
You’re being very thin skinned and making yourself the issue instead of dealing with the important issue at hand.
And wasting our time...
As is sit here in an airport, that is truly a a scary thought.
From a card to an imbedded chip. Mark of the Beast.
Since when has this administration worried about what they can’t do? They do it anyway.
Your useless wall of text just proves you have no understanding of what REAL American heroes went through, what they fought, and the horrors that the Axis perpetrated.
You are an embarrassment of an American.
I take it very personally when you demean the greatest generation of Americans.
I take it very personally when you marginalize the war that claimed millions of innocents.
You would too, if you had any knowledge of what those words ACTUALLY mean.
My son and I share this account, and he made this post.
I will have a VERY long conversation about it with him. I’ll also bring out Dad’s letters home, and a few history books.
“I take it very personally when you demean the greatest generation of Americans.
I take it very personally when you marginalize the war that claimed millions of innocents.”
Well, great! But NO ONE did that! WHAT are you whinning about???
DON’t even answer. Think.
And I have a few "choice words" for BOR!
With all due respect, why would anyone on an internet board care what offends you?
Understood. Good luck! Tell the little guy to stick around and we’ll educate him.
You really don’t get it. When people causually sling words like “Nazi” or “Facsist” around as perjoratives, whenever they label someone they disagree with as Hitler, it demeans the true evil that those words represent.
It lessens the struggle that the Greatest Generation OF AmeriCans went through. It cheapens every life lost. It robs meaning from the greatest struggle between good and evil in human history.
And that is a gee dee crime.
Maybe you should try thinking for a change.
No offense to you or your father, but fascism is fascism.
Yes, sometimes these terms are used too “loosely” but sometimes not. I bet your father would not be to happy about seeing his country overrun by illegal aliens.
Okay, that’s it. I don’t know what’s going on here, but you are distrupting/trolling/being a pain in the butt.
Freep is SUPPOSED to be a bastion of American Values. I’m trying to remind people of the brave souls who safeguarded them against an incomparable evil.
You honestly have no idea what that word means, do you? You just hear some talking head on the tv or radio call something that and you just parrot it.
Open a history book and start learning.
This is the bill that the House Public Option will be added to...
There are other much more reasonable, much less intrusive ways to do this.
The third post in this thread is from my son. The rest are me.
And it is my patriotic DUTY to be indigent when idiots demean the most horrendous acts of humanity.
Cheapening WWII by using those word as an insult is almost on par with Holocaust deniers in my book.
Many conservatives seem to have contradictory goals.
Goal 1. Keep illegal aliens from working in America.
Goal 2. Don’t be forced to carry identification cards.
I’d just like to point out that without some way of absolutely identifying a particular person and his immigration status, Goal 2 can never be fully implemented.
So we may be forced to pick a goal, #1 or #2. Illegal immigrants working may be a cost of not requiring identification.
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