It’s easy to make assumptions that a National ID system will lead to some sort of police state, but it’s also the same argument that comes up when talking about a National Gun registry as well.
Me, personally, I have no issue with a National ID or REAL ID notion. As I’ve stated in a past blog, too me a Nat-ID would have certain required info. For example, medical background: if I’m off my meds and acting irrationally wouldn’t that be a good thing for the cops to know ahead of time – PB/TK
“You’re Papers Please:” Are We Being Set Up for a National ID System?
“The triumph of the S.S. demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. And it is not for nothing. It is not gratuitously, out of sheer sadism, that the S.S. men desire his defeat. They know that the system which succeeds in destroying its victim before he mounts the scaffold . . . is incomparably the best for keeping a whole people in slavery.” —Hannah Arendt reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann
You can’t have it both ways.
You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.
You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.
If you’re inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, beware: there’s always a boomerang effect.
Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America great again—rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.
Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is.
The war on drugs turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with SWAT teams and militarized police.
Continue to counterpunch.org article: http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/02/youre-papers-please-are-we-being-set-up-for-a-national-id-system/
