Posted on 10/18/2004 11:02:36 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"Too many are sleeping - they will miss the wake up call."
That is a frightening thought. Imagine waking up on November 3 and finding out Kerry is the President.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
There's your precious "Constituitional enumeration."
Okay, so which provision in that particular article allows for a national ID card?
Ah, yes, the "If those exact words aren't in there, it's not authorized" scam.
Amendment 14, section 1 states that States may not "abridge the priviliges or immunities of citizens of the United States". It follows, then, that States must be capable of distinguishing between citizens and non-citizens. Section 5 states that Congress may legislate regarding this issue. Therefore, Congress may legislatively provide for citizenship documents - a.k.a. "National I.D." - if Congress deems that "appropriate". QED.
Ah, yes! The "living, breathing document" interpretation of the Constitution. So why didn't Congress implement a national ID system when the 14th Amendment was ratified?
Damn, that would be series! Might have to give up your beeber to a customes agent over that one!
A Republican (Bush) signed Campaign Finance Reform and the Patriot Act.
Typical "progressive" crap. If it's not "perfect" it's not usefu(l).
Funny thing is, hundreds of millions of legitimate credit cards are daily verified around the world, using identical type of databases, and businesses have not abandoned the whole thing due to a small percentage of fraud.
As a bonus, constant checking produces a constant stream of busted criminals!
Yes, it's amusing seeing the anti-government anarchists demanding 100% efficiency from government.
The objection I have, though, to this is that the potential trouble caused by a failure (false positive or false negative) in the credit card verification system is much, much less than the potential trouble caused by a failure in a federal I.D. system.
Birth certificates, naturalization documents. What more do you need? Have the states been having trouble complying with this section because of inability to make this "distinction"?
Section 5 states that Congress may legislate regarding this issue.
No, it states that Congress can enforce the amendment. Enforcement means to impose consequences for failure to comply. It doesn't mean anything else.
QED.
Not even close. Stick to chemical proofs.
Just run along to your so-called "Free State" where anyone and everyone can wander around concealing their identity. We'll see how much trouble is caused.
"Just run along to your so-called "Free State" where anyone and everyone can wander around concealing their identity. We'll see how much trouble is caused."
"I figured you'd post a nonsensical reply like that after having your ignorance exposed."
Whatever happened to that lady in Florida who wanted her face in the drivers license photo hidden by her bhurka?
After considering the trial testimony, other record evidence, briefs submitted by the parties, and oral arguments, the Court finds that Plaintiff's (Sultaana Freeman) prayer for relief must be denied.
Of course, CNN reports that an appeal is underway.
Would it stop Democrats from voting twice? (or twenty times...)
I do hope that his chemical analysis is better than his political reasoning....
Alas for Little Willie
We'll not see Willie more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
Given the certainty that, as soon as somebody proposes that the "ID Card" be required at the polls, 1)the Democrats will scream bloody murder and 2)the Republicans will bend over like the 98-pound weakling in a SuperMax cell block, why even bother with the proposal anyway?
It would make it easier to do so. Only the card need be checked, not the voter. The need only be a correspondence between the number of cards and the number of votes, not between the number of voters and the number of votes. The main difference would be that some people would feel safer.
Allright what is the technology that cant be forged or duplicated of today??
Well, you see it's possible to make a scannable SSI card which has a embedded digital image of the holder, plus fingerprint (thumbprint) data. If that info was accessible by read-only format from a national database (probably would require several) and the information was abled to be compared to that of the card via a card "reader" with a split screen output with the national data image displayed next to the card image, if the cardholder didn't appear to be the same persuasion as the national database entry and that within the card, one could fairly safely reason theft.
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