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US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card
schwit1 sends this quote from the Wall Street Journal:
"Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain. Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal US workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker. ... A person familiar with the legislative planning said the biometric data would likely be either fingerprints or a scan of the veins in the top of the hand. It would be required of all workers, including teenagers, but would be phased in, with current workers needing to obtain the card only when they next changed jobs, the person said. The card requirement also would be phased in among employers, beginning with industries that typically rely on illegal-immigrant labor."
I guess this is where we learn whether Americans hate "big gummint" or mexicans more. Based on our performances during the wars on terror, drugs, crime, pedophiles, etc. I'm guessing that the answer will be "mexicans" hands down.
Sure, there'll be some libertarians and civil libertarians who actually do prefer freedom, and some liberals(and, of course, hispanics) who don't actually hate mexicans; but the "God bless Joe Arpaio" crowd would submit to checkpoints and cavity searches in their own homes if they thought it would bring back "purity" and "real america"(how ironic...).
This at least makes sense considering how much harm illegal immigration does to American blue collar workers. As long as I can go out in public without it and buy goods without it, I'm not going to lose much sleep over it.
I have to wonder, though, how many people who are going "oh noes... mah freedum iz under attack" would get upset if a state government suddenly abolished its concealed carry license laws and declared that any adult who can legally carry a weapon is entitled to concealed carry.
I bet it's A LOT more than most slashdotters would guess.
why do they talk about fascism, "papers please" and destruction of privacy and freedom?
it's just a damn national id card. do you drive? do you have a driver's license? same fucking thing. is the existence of your driver's license some sort of matrix-like conspiracy to utterly destro your individuality? no? then calm the fuck down
it's just a bizarre sort of rigid fear of the unknown, when if you have an actual functioning brain, there's no threat this card poses to anyone, anyhow
what a bunch of spastic hysterical idiots
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
God - you are a fucking idiot. Quit freebasing the Kool-Aid.
1331461 is only semiprime *sigh* Alas - I am just short of 1337.
The government has more force to throw at you than any dissenting group could hope to match. The government has pretty much a monopoly of force.
And the Redcoats were members of the most powerful army on the planet at the time. What's your point?
People will get hurt. Innocent people will get hurt. Your personal political ideology generally never trumps the lives of others.
It's a safe assumption that people are already being hurt if things ever get to the point that revolution is called for.
I personally dread the day when people take up guns against their elected government. First because the term "elected", by picking up guns your saying that you know better than the voters, which to me, is tyrannical.
You do realize that the voters will has already been subverted in the United States, right? Our elected officials choose their voters, not the other way around. There are also times when the will of the voters DESERVES to be overturned. Or do you think that Jim Crow was justifiable because it happened to command popular support?
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -edward abbey
I hope you appreciate the irony of choosing that as your signature line while condemning the notion of revolution against an oppressive government.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.