[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If we issue passports to every US citizen, and require foreigners who are here legally to produce theirs (which they must have had to get in, right?), then the problem is solved, right?

Then the surveillance state will merely require us to show our passports hither and yon (an internal passport system). Who says those cannot be faked by crooks?

[Political Junkie Too]

Then the surveillance state will merely require us to show our passports hither and yon

As opposed to the new national ID cards? They're going to want to see IDs anyway, so why not use one that is already established?

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Then the surveillance state will merely require us to show our passports hither and yon (an internal passport system). Who says those cannot be faked by crooks?

Anything can be faked. The stakes would be a lot higher for the federal government to crack down on fake passports than they might for fake national ID cards.

-PJ