The Real ID Rebellion (National ID)

National ID isn't about controlling illegals. It is about tracking and controlling Americans.

BTTT!! I'm sure the Reconquistas are happy we citizens are now second-class. In the big accident that happened the other day in Southern Arizona, every single one of the area's ER doctors was tied up, treating illegal aliens. Now, obviously, we can't have people (who shouldn't be here to begin with, but that is a different story) dying on the highways. However, what if one other accident had happened? What if someone had a heart attack? Fat chance of getting help - illegal aliens take priority and innocent citizens can just die.

" I know of no law that says you're required to."

There may not be one. But I do know that it is becoming routine, and the bottom line is, most people in that situation are not going to challenge the cop and risk further harassment, or even a night in jail.

Yeah; we see how "sympathetic" the government is towards ranchers who live on or near the border and whose property is destroyed and families endangered daily by all these "good people" who are just looking for a better quality of life. Never mind that they're more than willing to destroy OUR quality of life to get it.

"I wish to remind Republicans that this idea first surfaced in a Reagan cabinet meeting in 1981. Then Attorney General William French Smith argued that a perfectly harmless i.d. card system would be necessary to reduce illegal immigration. A second cabinet member asked why not tattoo a number on each American's forearm. According to Martin Anderson, the White House domestic policy adviser at the time, Reagan blurted out: "My god, that's the mark of the beast." Anderson reports "that was the end of the national identification card" during the Reagan years. But bad ideas never die in Washington; they wait for another day."

Great quote, and you know, the comment about the bad ideas never die in Washington - much of the PATRIOT Act was created during the Clinton years. If he had tried to float it then, Republicans would have went nuts.

Regardless of that, we are headed towards a papers please society. I can't see anybody challenging it on a national level, because we are going so slow that it's not that noticeable, it's being implemented by a party that would normally be against such a thing, and because the Cold War is over (which provided a great contrast to freedom-lovers).

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