How many people are going to get the national ID card?

Question

I won't. It is coming in 2008. it will be tied in with your drivers liscense. you will have to have it at all times.....Just want some opinions on it...

If people refuse it than they will have to give up on it, we just need everyone to be aware, and not just do because we think we have to, WE control the government. or at least we should. everyone is just too lazy to do anything these days. people just accept whateverthe government tells them...

Answer 1

Welcome to the new Orwellian state known as America.

The term "Orwellian" usually refers to one or more of the following:

* Manipulation of language for political ends. Most significantly by introducing to words meanings in opposition to their denotative meanings.
* Invasion by the state of personal privacy, whether physically or by means of surveillance.
* The total control of daily life by the state, as in a "Big Brother" society.
* The disintegration of the family unit by the state.
* The replacement of religious faith with worship of the state in a semi-religious manner.
* Active encouragement by the state of "doublethink," whereby the population must learn to embrace inconsistent concepts without dissent.
* The denial or rewriting of past events.
* A dystopian or antiutopian future.
* The use of verbose and ambiguous language.

Answer 2

It is a blatant invasion of privacy with no real purpose. It's not that bad, really, but it is not a positive factor. The document allows for abuse and the curtailing of civil liberties. Quoting from Wikipedia:

- Identity cards will impose a disproportionate burden upon citizens while empowering the executive which is contrary to the maxim: "the government that governs best, governs least". Some have pointed out that extensive lobbying for identity cards has been undertaken, in countries without compulsory identity cards, by IT companies who will be likely to reap rich benefits in the event of an identity card scheme being implemented.
- They could be used to track anyone's movements and private life, thus endangering one's privacy. The proposed British ID card will involve a series of linked databases, to be managed by the private sector. Managing disparate linked systems with a range of institutions and any number of personnel having access to them is alleged to be a potential security disaster in the making.
- A requirement to carry an identity card at all times can lead to the inconvenience of arbitrary requests from card controllers (such as the police). This can lead to functionality creep whereby carrying a card becomes de facto if not de jure compulsory, as with the Social Security number, which is now widely used as ID. That is, everyone carries their card around anyway because shops and services may demand proof by way of cards, even though such an obligation is not required by law.
- Government claims that identity cards will prevent terrorism have been incrementally eroded by critics. The former UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke conceded that identity cards may only be useful in the identification of bodies in the aftermath of a terrorist outrage. Critics rely on the facts that the terrorists involved in 9/11 and the London tube attacks did have and would have had identity card respectively. As such a strong presumption of identity is given in favour of a card holder, the identity card scheme may be an asset to potential terrorists.
- Totalitarian governments, which issued identity cards to their populations use them oppressively. E.G. the issuing of unique biometric identities was used when Nazis unique concentration-camp detainees numbers on the arms of people taken to be processed by the Final Solution.
- More recently, the apartheid-era government of South Africa used pass books as internal passports to oppress that country's black population.

Answer 3

If its required, then I have no choice.

If its an option, I will not be participating.

We already have social security cards. and we have state drivers license, either they need to put pictures on the social security cards or make a national drivers license.

I think the national ID is overkill.

Answer 4

Rotsa Ruck, Desi. Not just driver's license, but state/federal I.D.s,
too. Did you think they would make it an easy/or even possible system to opt out of, unless you're Amish?

http://www.greaterthings.com/Conspiracy/SSN_SocialSecurityNumber_666/index.html

Answer 5

I heard something about this idea once before, but it never passed congress. If they are going to have it, and it is mandatory, then I guess I will have one. Otherwise they can count me out. Ridiculous crap....

Answer 6

honestly if was bound to happen the bible basically talks about it. don't remember where, just remember in Revelations. i don't like it. its to easy to steal identities. its the government being to controlling and too nosy.

Answer 7

I have no problems with it. Why should I?