[ClearCase_guy]

NH, NY, MN, and LA driver’s license are not acceptable to the TSA. If you want to fly from NYC to Chicago, your NY driver’s license will not get you on the plane.

At all levels the world says, “Show me your papers, bitte.” and sometimes it’s not enough.

[ronnietherocket3]

Passports are nothing more than a form of control— a way to obtain oodles of personal information and to restrict one of the most basic freedoms of humanity— the freedom to move.

Is the writer of this for against amnesty? If he is against amnesty, that position and this one are at odds.

Edward Snowden has been waylaid in Russia for more than two years because the US government rescinded his passport, effectively terminating his ability to travel anywhere.

He has been waylaid in Russia because he chose to break his contract with the US.

While the elephants roam freely, we humans obstruct ourselves with imaginary barriers and demands for a bunch of silly paperwork, passports, and visas. Not exactly the pinnacle of civilization.

We also believe in things like private property. Also humans are far more advanced than elephants.

[Gay State Conservative]

Americans are so ‘free’, in fact, that they can’t even go to Canada without forking over $165 to the government of the United States just to ‘apply’ for a little booklet that gives you the right to leave the country.

That's not entirely true.Canada doesn't require a *passport* from US citizens to enter.IIRC a birth certificate and driver's license will get you in.It's *returning* to the US where lack of a passport is a problem.IIRC you can get back in but are subject to a fine in such a situation.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

- We can't expect people to have passports because that would be socialism.

- We can't expect people to have any form of identification of any kind because that would be the Mark of the Beast.

- We must keep our borders secure and prevent people from entering illegally.

Something has to give. I'm willing to carry around a passport to get from some points to some other points on the globe.

[stars & stripes forever]

-Perhaps next time it will be implantable chips.-

For such a time as this...
http://patburt.com/

[Rodamala]

I was looking through the book rack outside the antique store near my office today and saw this folio from Valley Forge, PA that had reprints of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Gettysburg Address, Libretto of The Star Spangled Banner, and a copy of the Pledge of Allegiance. The back cover was notable... notable for how far we have fallen.