Comments on: Big Brother, or Big Bother? Creeping Closer to a National ID for Everyone? http://themoderatevoice.com/20021/big-brother-or-big-bother-creeping-closer-to-a-national-id-for-everyone/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: spirasol http://themoderatevoice.com/20021/big-brother-or-big-bother-creeping-closer-to-a-national-id-for-everyone/comment-page-1/#comment-136272 spirasol Fri, 30 May 2008 19:14:51 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-legal-matters/domestic-surveillance/20021/big-brother-or-big-bother-creeping-closer-to-a-national-id-for-everyone/#comment-136272 ...........and soon after we will all be placed on probation, with little chips embedded under our skin. Found guilty without a trial. Freedom of movement? not allowed without the chip. In this way our whereabouts can be ascertained at any time and you wouldn't be able to make those flimsy excuses anymore, because, unbeknownst to you, as you walk down the street you will be triggering monitors that will record who walked where and when. AND since all of this should only frighten the criminals, it means they will stay in hiding and we will be able to take care of our business with a deepened sense of security, unfettered by folks who just slow things down. <br><br>Even if I opted to not get the chip, when I walk down main street I notice all the cameras whirring as I pass by. Funny though, the cameras did pick up the poor homeless guy robbing the liquer store and the crazed soldier threatening to shoot himself, but no, it didn't pick up the lies of the Bush administration and it missed the magical changes in the document known as the Constitution, and white collar crime seems to occur too often in areas where cameras and chips don't. <br><br>If Bush were to ask, as it applies to folks who do or don't want more security in the forms being offered, by implying that we have to decide if we are with him or against him...............I'm one of those. ………..and soon after we will all be placed on probation, with little chips embedded under our skin. Found guilty without a trial. Freedom of movement? not allowed without the chip. In this way our whereabouts can be ascertained at any time and you wouldn't be able to make those flimsy excuses anymore, because, unbeknownst to you, as you walk down the street you will be triggering monitors that will record who walked where and when. AND since all of this should only frighten the criminals, it means they will stay in hiding and we will be able to take care of our business with a deepened sense of security, unfettered by folks who just slow things down.

Even if I opted to not get the chip, when I walk down main street I notice all the cameras whirring as I pass by. Funny though, the cameras did pick up the poor homeless guy robbing the liquer store and the crazed soldier threatening to shoot himself, but no, it didn't pick up the lies of the Bush administration and it missed the magical changes in the document known as the Constitution, and white collar crime seems to occur too often in areas where cameras and chips don't.

If Bush were to ask, as it applies to folks who do or don't want more security in the forms being offered, by implying that we have to decide if we are with him or against him……………I'm one of those.

]]> By: Amanda http://themoderatevoice.com/20021/big-brother-or-big-bother-creeping-closer-to-a-national-id-for-everyone/comment-page-1/#comment-136270 Amanda Fri, 30 May 2008 17:43:33 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/law-legal-matters/domestic-surveillance/20021/big-brother-or-big-bother-creeping-closer-to-a-national-id-for-everyone/#comment-136270 If we had a national standard ID that replaced/covered everything else, wouldn't that save time at the airport? Instead of having a driver's license and a passport and a social security card and a birth certificate, we'd just have one card with a photo and our basic info on it. TSA screeners wouldn't have to pull aside people with non-photo ID's, or learn the 20 different ways to fake a dozen different forms of ID. In the long run, if it was set up properly, a national ID would probably save time and money. If we had a national standard ID that replaced/covered everything else, wouldn't that save time at the airport? Instead of having a driver's license and a passport and a social security card and a birth certificate, we'd just have one card with a photo and our basic info on it. TSA screeners wouldn't have to pull aside people with non-photo ID's, or learn the 20 different ways to fake a dozen different forms of ID. In the long run, if it was set up properly, a national ID would probably save time and money.

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