Beck's take on it can be found here:
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/04/26/why-doesnt-gov-want-you-to-have-a-passport/
I find this extremely concerning. While this may only apply to "some" Americans at first, we all know how that works. In the end, this could effectively turn into a paper Berlin wall.
Every dictatorship has always needed a mechanism to keep people in.
Who doesn’t know the name, address and phone number of their mom’s gynecologist from 10-20-30-40-50-60-70-80 years ago?
Mother’s residence one year before my birth
Mother’s residence at time of my birth.
Mother’s residence one year after my birth
http://papersplease.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ds5513-proposed.pdf
I am glad that Glenn Beck got a ho;d of this because when I first read this earlier today, my bones shivered right down to my ‘38 ancestors!
Here we go again!
Gotta go President (future) Palin is on Greta!
Of course, if you’re an illegal seeking welfare benefits - just put your “x” on the line and we’ll be happy to serve you.
Obastard’s revenge.
All the questions Obama won’t answer
It’s to keep Obama from getting a passport.
No way can he answer all those questions.
I thought US passports didn't list religion. Are they changing that policy?
Who’s going to run the background check? And with what money?
I have read the article in its entirety, researched the subject extensively on the Internet and still can’t find an adequate need for all this information just to get a passport. All I needed for my original passport was to produce an original birth certificate or a certified copy issued by my home state.
All this from the Kenyan raised in Indonesia as a muslim and attending universities as a foreign exchange student in the US.
It's so USSR.
How long until we see currency export controls and other Eurosocialist/Soviet controls on freedom? The IRS is already inside of every account you have anywhere in the world. THink you can open an account outside of Uncle Sam's reach or knowledge? One, you can't and two, you just committed felonies.
Could you have imagined mandatory crotch grabbing “terrorism searches” of small children in airports a decade ago?
What happened to the land of the free?
Welcome to the USSA, comrades.
Every single day there is some marxist crap from this tyrant. He’s going to decree all the Dream Act crap too. Dictator by Fiat. He’s going down hard like all dictators do. Just like Mubarack or Hussein or you pick em.
Too late. Obama already got one!
The commissars would prefer that the comrades not go abroad too much. Stay home and work, comrades. No escaping the USSA.
Of course they’re making it chrd to get a passport.
You can’t run a proper dictatorship if you allow people out of the country.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42765513/ns/travel-travel_tips/
This article suggests that all this extra data is needed ONLY IF YOU CAN’T SUPPLY A BIRTH CERTIFICATE
apology for shouting but I’m laughing so hard I’m rolling on the floor!
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/passports-and-freedom-to-leave/237858/
This one states the form is for
1) wants a passport and 2) “wasn’t born in a medical facility” (or didn’t have their birth recorded within a year of it happening).
http://papersplease.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ds5513-proposed.pdf
Above is the form itself.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/proposed-passport-questionnaire-asks-are-you-circumcised/
This one restates the “no birth cert” issue.
So if you have a valid BC, you are OK, even if you plan to travel to Pakistan.
ROTFL
By his 3rd or 4th term crossing state borders will require the same documentation...
We must be punished for questioning the “WAN’S” eligibility...