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.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.
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.