Stupid Letter of the week - only "small sacrifices" involved with national ID cards

and with putting our DNA and fingerprints on file.

SENSIBLE ID CARD

There is debate about the idea of having a national ID card. What is the problem? We all pretty much have driver’s licences. These new national ID cards would be similar, but the new card would be organized federally instead of on a state-by-state basis. People always bring up the part that the Nazis had national ID cards. Big whoop. We’re not Nazis, and Bush isn’t Hitler. To make this system even better, we should all be required to submit DNA and fingerprints to a database. Crimes would be solved easier, and possibly prevented knowing that your DNA and prints are on file. Unfortunately the general public is generally stupid. You want security but you don’t want to make any small sacrifices.

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Click on "Read the Newspaper", then select a version and then the July 3rd week, and then "Local News" and then "Speak Out"

A national ID would be fine. I can't see any merit in a "invasion of our privacy" rebuttal. Hit "enter" and everything you did in your life in on a computer somewhere. It knd of krept up on us when we stopped using 3X5 cards for keeping personal information on folks.

is that Bush isn't Hitler. That's not exactly a strong endorsement, is it?

"Why should I vote for your candidate?"

"Because he is not Republican."

:hi:

I add them to my buddy list so I can check their profile from time to time.

Most are tombstoned in short order.

It's cool.

they post anything. Oh no wait the BELIEVE anything the republicans spew.

I heard on New Orleans right wing radio (is there any other kind?) yesterday a man was saying how ignorant people are and that "we" need to study the constitution. The issue, the ACLU wants a Louisiana City to take down a picture of Jesus in the courthouse. I know its right there in the bill of rights, christianity will be forced on all citizens in public buildings. I guess I'm just ignorant.

1. Attack public school teachers as "teaching communism" because they're in unions
2. Attack public school system as liberal re-education concentration camps
3. Cut funding wherever possible of public schools
4. Replace public school funding with vouchers
5. Once funding is replaced with vouchers, close out public schools
6. Once public schools are closed, campaign to eliminate the "unconstitutional" practice of handing money to people who have kids, saying that "If you want your kid to have an education, pay for it."
7. Lament about the ignorance of the general population ... how "smart" the elite few are ... those who could afford to educate their kids ...

Oh, and don't forget to eliminate funding for that "socialist experiment" - public libraries ... if you want to read a book, buy it ...

pulling them out ...

that if the system is overwhelmed by additional submissions of DNA and fingerprint samples, there will be failure after failure, and innocent people will be harmed or be subject to costly investigations. It is not a "small sacrifice" to willingly submit yourself to a police state.

I can't see it not happening as long as we have the energy to do it. It may not happen today or tomorrow, or even until after you die, but what did that ever stop? It's just part of the process.

I keep referring back to "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer because the parallels between Nazi Germany and now are just too unsettling.

There are a lot of people who don't have driver's licenses. To get an ID card in our area one would need to get a ride to the DOT office out in the suburbs. There is no bus service to that area. There is also a fee, I think $4. The DOT office is seriously understaffed so there are long waits involved with any transaction there. It's doable but not easy, especially for the elderly.

and tell the writer how you feel.

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." - Benjamin Franklin.