Posted on 11/16/2001 1:11:01 PM PST by LuvItOrLeaveIt
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Global Disarmament - No Reading Between the Lines Required**
**with many thanks to Operation America for "hosting" this column of mine...they were the inspiration and the "caffeine" behind this!
The constitution does not confer rights. It enumerates them. It also says in the ninth amendment that the rights enumerated there are just some of the rights and that others exist.
True... have to remember that one.
Therefore, it's false, and you might as well forget it.
Not on my watch.
When you hear that they found a national ID card on me, correct them, saying, "it was planted on his body".
Not just to you, TJ, but to all that think that an ID means the end of freedom as we know it ... the cartoon is most applicable.
The greatest president of the 20th century had this same idea floated to him. President Reagan responded, "Why don't we just print 666 on them?"
The issue was never brought up again in that administration.
Well, these guys sure seem hell bent on creating deep divisions within American society during our time of crisis. I would think they would want us united during such a time, but no, these power junkies just have to have more control.
Many of us flatly refuse to carry national ID. No law, no argument, nothing anyone can do will possibly change our minds. We just aren't going to do it, consequences be damned.
So we who refuse ID will be persecuted and there will be infighting among Americans.
And our real enemies will smile and laugh at our misfortune.
How stupid and counterproductive, and completely predictable.
I never said that and I would like to know what makes you think that I am a chicken little.
After thinking about your statement (which I never made) that a national ID card would end our freedom as we know it, I would have to conclude that it indeed would. Freedom, as we have known it, never included being required to present a national ID card on demand or reveal all the personal information included on the card. We were free to go where we pleased without identifing ourselves to the government as long as we didn't break any laws. That is freedom as we knew it. That will change.
Now you need to make the case that this is exactly the freedom as we have known it when we lose that ability. Or concede that freedom "as we knew it" will end.
When you hear that they found a national ID card on me, correct them, saying, "it was planted on his body".Yes, our freedom will be different with a card versus without it. Freedom WITH borders is different than without them. The other extreme is to listen to the one world order types and drop the borders ... we are in an uncomfortable position right now, and I choose better citizen identification.
Choose it for yourself. I'll tell you again, it won't be found on me unless it's planted.
I hate tyrants who usurp my rights, whether they are foreign or domestic. The second amendment was written for this eventuality.
Orwell said it best:
Martin Anderson, former aide to President Reagan, writes of a cabinet meeting at which Attorney General William French Smith proposed a national ID card to curb illegal immigration. No ID, no job. Anderson caustically suggested an alternative that would be cheaper, lighter weight, impossible to lose, immune to counterfeiting or theft, even waterproof: Just “tattoo an ID number on the inside of everybody’s arm.” Reagan understood the allusion and the idea was never again taken seriously—until now.
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