Ready for a Nationa I.D. Card? Ready or not, Its Coming!

Ready for the National I.D. Card? It’s coming!

Congress is at the point of passing a bill, which will give the US a National ID card… a National Driver’s license.

Oh, the license will have the name of your state on it… and it will, purportedly, be issued by your state, but make no mistake about it, it WILL be a National Driver’s license, which will double as a National ID card.

The nationalization of your driver’s license will include such information, (mandated by the Federal Government) as: proof of citizenship. A digital photo of the licensee/applicant, and proof of his, or her, address, as well as proof that you, indeed, have a Social Security Number. If you are not a citizen, you must provide proof that you are in the country legally. A national registry, of some sort, will be set up, by the federal government, to list all non-citizens in the country and the “non-citizen applicant” will be checked against that registry. The legal non-citizen’s driver’s license will expire when, his, or her, visa expires. Oh, one other thing, there will be some sort of code, or indelible marking, on the license, itself, to prevent counterfeiting.

At first glance it doesn’t seem too bad, but look closer. The documents you present, to verify your citizenship, SS number, and address, as well as a digital photograph, will be copied and filed, or stored in a government data bank!

That, dear reader is the way the federal government will force us to carry a national ID card! And, all the time, you thought they couldn’t do it! Never underestimate the power of a government when it’s citizens are afraid.

I detest the very idea of a National ID card. It goes against everything for which America stands! It immediately brings to mind the line from so many “B” movies of the 1940’s and ‘50’s: “Your papers, please.” The Nazi Gestapo more often than not, delivered that line. If you did not offer those papers up fast enough, the second line was: “You have, perhaps, relatives in Berlin?” Do you get my drift?

This is far too much power in the hands of the federal government!

Now, I’m just a Carolina Country boy, but the opportunity for abuse, by the federal government, with this cache of information on its citizens, is staggering. Then there is always the possibility it could fall into the hands of nefarious characters outside of the government. I don’t even want to think about that!

It worries and confounds me that we Americans are giving away the freedoms our ancestors fought, bled, and died to secure for us. Too many of us are ready to give up our freedom in exchange for security! This is the surest way to establish a totalitarian government yet devised by man.

The American citizen now has to fight on two fronts to insure his safety and security. We must fight the terrorist and those in our own government who would take away our freedom just as surely as would the terrorists.

Big government, in America, is just as much a threat to our freedom as anything the terrorists can throw at us!

Alexis De Tocqueville summed it up when he said:

“It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, guided; men are selfdom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence. It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, extinguishes, and stupefies people ‘til each nation is reduced be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which, the government is the shepherd.”

Well, there it is. That is where we Americans are headed, as a nation. Slowly, but surely, we continue to yield up our freedom to the government. Soon there will be none to give up. Soon there will be none…………

Your Obedient Servant,

“Longstreet”