I am out of town and unable to make a new post at the moment. Here is a post on Ron Paul New England I made nearly a year ago on December 1, 2007. It is about the National ID Card and was one of the reasons I decided to support Ron Paul in the primary season for the 2008 Presidential Election.
Here it is:
The REAL ID Act, signed into law in 2005, provides for nationally-standardized ID cards to be designated to residents of the US by each individual state. It originally was scheduled to take effect in mid-2008, but that deadline has since been rescheduled for late 2009. Ron Paul, as a congressman and as a candidate for president, has consistently opposed the measure. This may not seem threatening to some people at the moment. After all, it’s just a harmless card with your picture on it-right? Wrong. As Ron Paul has pointed out in his speeches, a national ID card is just another assault on civil liberties on the part of the federal government in the name of war. Paralleling the issue of gun control, measures that require guns or a certain type of gun to be “registered” with the government may seem harmless. After all, it’s no big deal-the government just wants to know where those guns are so they can fight crime better. Right? Afraid not. Some time later when the government decided to ban assault weapons entirely, they simply used the registration list they compiled before to confiscate the guns from private law-abiding citizens and render them powerless against criminals who possess such guns illegally. Read the rest of this entry »
