“This becomes an internal passport. Eventually it will be a crime not to carry it on you and surrender it whenever asked by any government official.”
Not carrying ID has been treated as a crime for quite some time. I didn’t get a drivers license until my mid twenties. I just walked everyhere I wanted to go. I didn’t drink and had no use for an ID. In the few chance encounters I had with law enforcement types, I was definitely treated like a criminal. This was 30 years ago.
They all but said: “Where are your papers ?”
The difference is it currently is NOT a crime. They could not turn you into a criminal for NOT having it.
That is an enormous difference. Because then you have a record as a criminal. And you can be held as such. People now have 24 hours to produce whatever their ID is.
Don’t get me wrong it is most often the smart thing to do, to carry your ID. But there are cases where people forget it, or don’t want to carry it and it is not a criminal offense.
This shifts the government from a ‘working for us’ to a ‘working against us’ mentality, that WE somehow cannot travel freely without having a government ID. It’s about control, and the control shifts the wrong way (to the government) and away from us.