“Papers, please:” the national ID card.
US Senator Lamar Alexander and conservative libertarian blogger Spoons endorse a national ID card. (*) Spoons writes:
The only people who stand to lose privacy with a National ID card are illegal aliens, terrorists, and criminals who operate with aliases.
In his column, Senator Alexander states his belief that the bulking up of state-issued driver’s licenses will not work for lack of uniformity.
Of course we will lose some legitimate privacy with these cards, despite what Spoons bravely says. And of course, we need national ID cards. Our country is now at the brink of 300 million people. Streams of immigrants, legal and illegal, from every culture and corner of the Earth, continue entering the USA with no end in sight. There are many anedotal signs of heightening social chaos. We must maintain order. The day when we could have avoided this reduction of our privacy passed long ago when diversity became a recognized political virtue, and equality was redfined to mean “diversity.”
The best we can hope for are federal laws that limit the use of national ID cards.
One federal law should state that the national ID card cannot be required to buy or sell anything, with such exceptions as the law may allow. These exceptions would include the buying of such items as high explosives and the boarding of airplanes, where it even may be mandatory. Producing the ID to buy firearms will be an issue.
Citizens should be required to produce their national ID card as rarely as is possible.