[redgolum]

Like it or not, we will soon be a country where you need internal passports to travel interstate.

I remember movies in the 80's where Russians could not understand why we in the US didn't need papers to travel in country.

I fear my children will not know what it means to be able to go anywhere in the US without hitting check points.

[RSmithOpt]

I fear my children will not know what it means to be able to go anywhere in the US without hitting check points.

Well, if the government had secured our borders after 9/11 and the states just didn't issue licenses to just anyone, and the social security admin verified a person's citizenship before handing out a number, and illegals we detained and deported always, then maybe such a thing would not come to pass. Americans are not forcing this issue. The government not enforcing its own laws are causing the problem.

[GrandEagle]

I do understand that it is headed that way. BUT, I will resist at every opportunity. I will not willingly lay down and conform.

Cordially,
GE

[Jokelahoma]

I must really be missing something here, or my tinfoil hat isn't fitting correctly. I fail to see how demanding that states actually check before granting a driver's license to see if a person is who they say they are, and that they are in this country legally, will lead to having to "show papers" in order to go anywhere. I'd much rather know that a document used as a form of ID is at least checked for accuracy before turning the holder loose on society. Perhaps I'm just not sufficiently paranoid.

[DLfromthedesert]

But we're FREE!!!!

[sauropod]

Some on this thread would applaud internal passports as a "good thing."

God help us.

[muawiyah]

Government Check points I've managed to hit the last few days:

1. Bursar's Office at Indiana University

2. Post office mailing 3 parcels

3. Pennsylvania Turnpike