Posted by
michael
on from the you'll-get-one-anyway dept.
The Rev writes "Well after the previousarticles on this subject the BBC is carrying a story about how the UK Home Office has finally admited that the overwhelming public response to its public consultation was against the idea of a National ID Card System."
Public surveys are a joke.
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Leroy_Brown242
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How many people who have an opinion, on average, have a clue what's going on?
I mean, so what if they don't want something? if the government feels it is in the best interests of the people, and it is reasonable, I say go for it. I carry 2 pieces of government issued ID in my wallet. (Drivers Lic and Concealed Handgun permit.) I would love to make that just one.
I VERY firmly believe there will be another "civil war" within the next 50 years. There are a ton of people who see the government as a means to every end and a ton of people who simply want to be left alone. Both ideologies are mutually exclusive. At this point, we can't roll back to where the government belongs because a whole bunch of people will start whining about how the federal government owes them this and that... and very few people would want to "progress" to where the others would take us if they knew just what they were heading (welcome the the United States Socialist Republic, where the state owns you). Kind of like slavery, there's a big fight on the horizon that has to be fought sooner or later because you can't have both co-existing: freedom from the government or dependency upon it. Pick one.
-- Don't leave your mind so open that your brain falls out. Don't close it so much that you cut off the blood.
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How many people who have an opinion, on average, have a clue what's going on?
I mean, so what if they don't want something? if the government feels it is in the best interests of the people, and it is reasonable, I say go for it. I carry 2 pieces of government issued ID in my wallet. (Drivers Lic and Concealed Handgun permit.) I would love to make that just one.
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I VERY firmly believe there will be another "civil war" within the next 50 years. There are a ton of people who see the government as a means to every end and a ton of people who simply want to be left alone. Both ideologies are mutually exclusive. At this point, we can't roll back to where the government belongs because a whole bunch of people will start whining about how the federal government owes them this and that... and very few people would want to "progress" to where the others would take us if they knew just what they were heading (welcome the the United States Socialist Republic, where the state owns you). Kind of like slavery, there's a big fight on the horizon that has to be fought sooner or later because you can't have both co-existing: freedom from the government or dependency upon it. Pick one.
Don't leave your mind so open that your brain falls out. Don't close it so much that you cut off the blood.