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I think it is a good idea. If you dont have a card you must be an illegal.
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No, then you will be, as in Stalin's Soviet Union, a "non-person". You will not exist, as far as the government is concerned. The card is you. the card will be trusted, before you. Without it, you will not be able to open a bank account, get a job, buy a house or get a driver's licence or car, and you sure as hell won't be able to get a gun.
And they'll know right away EVERYTHING about you.
As long as you have the card.
But if you don't have the card, you'll be better off dead.
So it won't matter.
Just how could national ID cards have stopped the suicide hijackers Sept. 11? They all likely would have passed or, as foreigners, been exempt.
If they can't get on planes, they'll use suitcase nukes on skyscrapers, or shoot down fully loaded airliners w/ Stinger missiles.
Handing over our freedoms in the pursuit of illusory "safety" will only lead to our downfall, indeed, a lot sooner.
"The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred
years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from
bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from
courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to
selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy,
from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
--Lord Alexander Tyler, on the fall of the Athenian republic