National Identification

[Koosh]

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

-Benjamin Franklin

So you have no problem if your state knows who you are (Drivers Liscense), or your country (Social Security), but if they put it together in one easy to use card, then all of the sudden we live under a tyrannical and "big brother" state?

[logamus]

They should just encode the ID into a RFID chip and implant it under your skin. Like in your hand or your head. Just a thought...


JDub

over my dead body.

[Steelrat]

So you have no problem if your state knows who you are (Drivers Liscense), or your country (Social Security), but if they put it together in one easy to use card, then all of the sudden we live under a tyrannical and "big brother" state?

If you take enough small steps, you can go pretty far.

[Meph]

Yeh, the Christian right would not take this as the mark of the beast or something

Only if the right hand.


Left hand is still an option.

[phantomhitman]

ok, i am lost on this one. is this more or less proving that whoever hols the card is a legit american citizen? was this to help stop illegal immigrants or to stop terroists?

[PyRo]

We will never do anything to stop illigle immigrants.

[shartley]

[PyRo]

Yeah, nice historical sound bite, but put in context, it does not mean a hole lot, and even less when you examine who said it.

Yeah, well look what I found

[Lohman446]

I feel the need to clarifty this - a national ID system, good idea. It has a lot of advantages.

Implanting a chip, a barcode, etc. BAD idea.

[shartley]

Yeah, well look what I found

[1stdeadeye]

I feel the need to clarifty this - a national ID system, good idea. It has a lot of advantages.

Implanting a chip, a barcode, etc. BAD idea.

J Dub was kidding. He has a dry sense of humor.

[Timmee]

They should just encode the ID into a RFID chip and implant it under your skin. Like in your hand or your head. Just a thought...


JDub

Sweet, I could be a cyborg!