National ID cards would be the dragnet we need

Seattle Times ^ | 10/4/01 | Nicholas G. Jenkins and Amit Rind

[goodnesswins]

THIS is VERY SCARY......and what would happen if someone said...."I lost my card" (Like the dog ate my homework?) ID cards for all aliens living in this country, YES, but NOT for law abiding citizens.

[wysiwyg]

ID this Mr. Jenkins.

[downwithsocialism]

Have Jenkins or Rind ever read Orwell?

[DWSUWF]

Has there ever been a tragedy, large or small, that the home-grown Nazis and Commies didn't exploit in an attempt to advance their filthy little anti-American agendas?

[goodnesswins]

YEAH....I keep thinking....why don't we just let the gov't tattoo us at birth.......these idiots probably don't know what that relates to....and the Seattle Times had the audacity to expose them...with the publishing of this.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Yoo-hoo!

Here's another enlightened idiot.

[pray4liberty]

Aiming at the wrong target, as usual. The solution is very simple. Deport illegal aliens. NOW.

Let's try a little experiment here. I suggest the City of Seattle, along with the staff at the Seattle Times, be the first to volunteer for this National ID card. Then watch the terrorists bomb Space Needle and then we can ask anyone who is left, how having that holographic ID in their wallet helped to keep them safe.

The answers may be very interesting.

[Ego]

Your papers, zey are not in order.

Come vith us.

[al-andalus]

A National ID Card based on a National DNA Base. Doesn't get much scarier than that. Hitler would have drooled.

[Yo-Yo]

Here's how it would work. By some date certain, every citizen and lawful resident would be required to obtain a tamper-proof national identification card.

And this would have caught Timmothy McVeigh by...?

Let us not forget that terrorism comes in all flavors.

[Sir Gawain]

I think you mean, ID this!

{^} J {^}

[Jay W]

Have Jenkins or Rind ever read Orwell?

Even if they did, what with today's sorry state of content-free and context-free education, would they even understand Orwell?

[glc1173@aol.com]

"National ID cards" would be worthless against terrorism - because nobody issuing them would know that any of the many aliens already here from hostile nations would be who they claimed, as their homelands sure wouldn't cooperate in identifying them.

And let's face another political reality. With millions of Mexican illegals in the U.S., how would they be handled - particularly being that their ethnic kinsmen are so politically dominant in the state half of them live in, Kalifornia? How would anyone know that "Pedro" was really Pedro and not Juan when he applied for his "national ID card" and showed his driver's license, saying his birth certificate was a thousand miles away in Mexico? Would the Mexican government even cooperate in such a scheme?

Before the elites of the U.S. even dare talk about forcing the overwhelming majority of U.S. residents (native-born Americans) into a coast-to-coast gulag where we are forced to carry Nazi-type "papers," it's time to do something serious about terrorism - deport all Arab and Moslem aliens; they don't have a right to live here while their home societies attack us.

And - if any "national ID card" is imposed - it's time for "civil disobedience" to an extent Rosa Parks blushes.

Local phone numbers for reporting Arab illegal aliens

[freedomcrusader]

Implement a national ID card like this one and the terrorists will have won. They will have changed our way of life forever. For the worse...

[lds23]

They don't enforce the CURRENT visa laws. I can imagine the first time the try to detain or deport a minority - the hinges would come off. As much as it may "seem like a good idea at the time", this info will inevitably fall into the wrong hands, just as the FBI files fell into Clinton's clutches for blackmail. No, thanks.

[riley1992]

What we cannot live with is knowing that next year we may break bread with a guy who is planning to poison our water supply, but who remains in this country because our tough-talking politicians are too addicted to the rhetoric of rights to require citizens to carry around a three-inch piece of plastic.

No, moron, what we cannot live with are spineless pols who refuse to clamp down on the illegal immigration that is fostering these nutjobs in the first place.

[Black Agnes]

Cool. Can we have ID burning parties like the lefties had draft card burning parties in the '60's?

I'll bring the matches!

[al-andalus]

'I'll bring the matches'

Great idea but something tells me they'd make these things fireproof.

[freeeee]

Can we have ID burning parties like the lefties had draft card burning parties in the '60's?

Why yes, we can.

l bring the matches!

And I'll bring the keg.