Some States Say National ID Cards 'Make Life Easier'

VE3OGG writes "Some places, like Maine, have outright rejected the idea of a nationally mandated ID card amid privacy, legal and security concerns. On the other side of the fence some states, such as California and New Jersey, have said that they welcome the National ID card and that it will make 'life easier'. One New Jersey official said 'All you are getting in e-government for the most part are things that don't require strong two-factor identification,' the official said referring to security that requires something beyond a user name and password. 'But as we move forward and start to deliver more and more complicated services, I think that people for the most part will want to know their government has implemented strong measures [with National ID cards]'."

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Re:What happened??!??!?

[TheKingAdrock]

You can now welcome federally mandated and controlled tracking and access to guns. Sounds like a solution rather than a problem.

let the stupid slashdot fud commence

[circletimessquare]

it's a typical refrain to hear about how after 9/11 people were doing damages to civil liberties and playing into demagogues with their fearful responses and willingness to give up their freedoms for a little security

and yet, the same person who can articulate this position, is full of the same stupid baseless fear, in the other direction: fear of their own government

so we're getting a national id card. whoop de friggin doo. nobody is probing your nether regions, no masterplan of the illuminati is going into stage 3, the mind control chips are not activating

in other words, it's NO BIG DEAL. REALLY

but to hear it on slashdot, it's the opening of the gates to hell to get a national id

whatever!

all i see in slashdot in response to the national id card issue is fear, hysteria, and character-flaw level maltrust. no wisdom, no intelligence, no defense of any greater values or concepts can be gleaned in any of these comments

really

but you can ignore me, i'm obviously a tool of the emerging world order of secret police sent to slashdot to cast aspersions on you brilliant wise slashdotters

pffft

too many b-level hollywood cartoonish plots in your empty panic-ridden heads. not enough acceptance of mundane simple, drama-less progress

yes, i said it: a national id is PROGRESS: it makes life easier. and NO MORE

that's the beginning of the story. that's the end of the story with the national id card

i'll say it again: that's the beginning of the story. that's the end of the story with the national id card. a little stupid pointless progress

sorry it's not like the plot of the da vinci code you paranoid schizophrenics. there are no vast evil forces hell bent on taking away your rights and turning you into slaves in washington dc. there's just a bunch of well-meaning, low iq bureacrats. that's it. no drama. no subterfuge. sorry!

you're all a bunch of spastic freaks

you speak of how the vast hordes of clueless americans are willing to cave into fear and give up on their rights

but the only clueless fear-ridden panic-driven idiots i see aorund here is the kind i see in paranoid distrustful chronic hysteria about thier government i see in the comments on slashdot

idiots

go buld your bunkers in the woods, stockpile your guns and your cans of tuna, unplug your pcs, and kindly shut up

because you're the hysterical nitwits who operate based on fear

you're the ignorant ones

because i'm not a troll

[circletimessquare]

that's alright slashbots: label me a troll, label me flamebait. i don't tow the lowest common denominator line around here, how dare i, right? mod me into obvlivion! f***ing sheep

i'm not a troll

what i say is the truth:

you hear about how it's the american sheeple who give up their liberties for security because of fear

yet the only fear and panic and hysteria i see are in the comments on slashdot

it's a simple prudent unremarkable bit of efficiency, a national id

and yet to hear it on slashdot, it's an orwellian nightmare

right now the tags for this story reads:

"privacy, usa, bigbrother (tagging beta)"

bigbrother? oh really?

is this maybe a little panic-ridden? a little fearful? basing your opinion on fear and distrust rather than intelligence and wisdom and simple f***ing faith in your fellow man and your government?

well no, excuse me, it's much more obvious to talk about george orwell's 1984, right?

look, slashdot morons:

science fiction...reality

TWO. DIFFERENT. THINGS

but i'm just a troll right?

pffft

no, i'm not the troll, i'm the only one here who isn't a f***ing paranoid schizophrenic pissing in their pants over a f***ing national id card

OH NOES!

IT'S 1984!

EVERYBODY PANIC

f***ing pantywaist idiots

IT'S JUST A FUCKING NATIONAL ID CARD

NO

BIG

F***ING DEAL

now go ahead, mod me into oblivion assholes

i'm not cowering in the corner in fear out of goosestepping fascists poppping up out of nowhere

air headed nitwits