I read on the news today that the NYPD was able to purchase three 100 pound cylinders of chlorine without identification of who was making the purchase.
…and you don’t think we need a National ID Card?
Package that with a few bags of fertilizer and a can of home heating oil and terrorists do not need to smuggle in rockets or nuclear material in suitcases at airports.
Let’s not be so naive. Let’s not swap a little inconvenience for our lives.
“The truth, like medicine, is not always sweet.”
John W. Malenda
Although a National Identity Card is both a practical and absolute form of identification I have yet to find anyone who agrees with the concept.
Since I posted the previous article I have talked with a number of people and everyone feels that it would restrict their freedom.
The second concern is if there were such a card could someone be arrested for not carrying it?
First, it would be an identification card not a government ‘tracking device”. The US government already has such a device. It is your credit or debit card.
If the government wanted to, they would know how much money you spend with respect to your income, what you buy and where and when. They could follow your activities in great detail at present if they wanted to.
They know the make, model and year of your automobile and knowing how much gas you purchase, they can know how far you drive in a year and where you have purchased gas therefore where you have been.
When I go to vote in Connecticut, I must present my driver’s license or I don’t get to vote. It’s as simple as that. The police don’t haul me away to prison.
We carry all sorts of “cards” today already. You have your driver’s license, your Social Security Card, your medical insurance or Medicare card, your library card and so on.
If you do not present that card you are not arrested, you simply do not receive some service appropriate to that card.
Now to the consequences as a result of NOT having this card.
Saudi terrorists would have been unable to obtain drivers licenses which they were able to use to receive flight training leading to pilot certificates in the US.
They would have been unable to board those large commercial aircraft.
The World Trade Towers would still be standing. Those lives would not have been lost. The US would not have gone into Afganistan. The US would not be fighting a war in Iraq.
Billions of dollars would be instead taking care of problems at home. Thousands of American servicemen would be alive today and more thousands would not be crippled.
A National Identity Card would have prevented all this.
What lies in store for us without this card?
It’s your decision.
There seems to be a lot of concern about a National Identification Card.
I wonder why?
I have heard discussions that it will take away our privacy and our freedom. That it is the final step toward 666, the Mark of the Beast.
Consider where we are today. You must use your Social Security Number every time you are involved in some major financial transaction. Your Social Security Number is required for Medicare.
Try to cash a check without showing your Driver’s License Number.
Every member of the Armed Forces has a Number.
Our Passports have their number also that you must use on forms entering or leaving the country.
We already have a number for almost everything now, why not a uniform identification system that proves our entitlement to benefits, our privilege to drive, to make financial transactions and our right to vote.
It is logical to have one identification number rather than a half dozen.
That card would prove that we are United States Citizens and not someone who had crossed our borders illegally for whatever purpose that they might hope to achieve.
Why not?
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” -H.L. Mencken
