US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card

Slashfot ^ | 3/23/10 | timothy

[chris37]

Next stop, the Twilight Zone.

[RC2]

By the way......I am learning a little German since I have a 9 month old German Shepherd and all her commands will be in German so no one else can control her. She comes from a long line of Schutzhund trained German Shepherds. Tough dog.

[sportutegrl]

The only thing you won’t need it to do is vote.

[capecodder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2udoNmQkR4

This ID business isn’t new.

[dajeeps]

And they want to hand them out to all the illegals.

[carmody]

National ID card will eventually be your bank card (govt will own all the banks). Your paycheck will be loaded onto the card and you won’t need cash.

[edcoil]

“Show your papers or be arrested”

Bablefish is your friend.

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

[xvq2er]

Or control your pleasures. You’ll have to show your ID to get alcohol and then, when you’ve purchased your government-determined weekly ration already, you get cut off.

[capecodder]

In bars in Spain, you might have your imbedded chip scanned to pay your tab.

“Technology gets under clubbers’ skin”

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/09/spain.club/

[Gapplega]

Absolutely! They will know all your secrets and will use them against you as they see fit.

[TokuMei]

Ihre Papiere nicht in Ordnung

[Buckeye McFrog]

just another Lindsay Grahmnesty wet dream
(gawd, there’s an image I really need to get out of my head)

[mo]

be happy...the day is coming...

[Paine in the Neck]

How will you get one of these ID cards? Will you have to show your Birth Certificate?

[TokuMei]

Most people do not realize that the Obama admin is also now arranging to make it legal to track your location via cell phone at ANY time.

I’m not saying it’s merely possible on the technical level,no —that has been true for some time, now.

I’m saying they want to do that OPENLY, and constantly. They are now trying to put those legal pieces in place. They’re hiding nothing.

[fivecatsandadog]

If it’s on a microchip and embedded in the back of your neck, theft will be next to impossible (although there will still be a few desperate criminals out there....).

[crosshairs]

Its all happening fast, isn’t it? In biblical proportions.

[Oceander]

Obamareich

[Temujinshordes]

It is the employers of illegals who need to be jacked up, not the average U.S. citizen. If employers who fail to properly complete and retain an I-9 for every employee were subjected to stiff fines for noncompliance, the problem would go away. Same as with the drug war. If U.S. citizens quit purchasing illegal drugs, the cartels would dry up and blow away. Our laws addressing both issues are ignored by the very people who passed those laws in the first place. To pass laws and then not enforce them makes a mockery of all laws. The U.S. would be better off to not pass the laws no one is going to enforce.

[umgud]

The national ID card won’t be required to sneak across the border, work for cash or to sell drugs.