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December 08, 2004
Screw a drivers license Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik caught a lot of ridicule over his personal refusal to get a drivers license. What a nutjob!
Yeah, well think again, cause these licenses are being set up as de facto national identity cards. They've gone far past the original excuse of ensuring traffic safety to becoming one of the main everyday tools of the encroaching police state.
"Are your papers in order, sir?" This is one of the most immediate indicators in a movie that you're dealing with an ugly police state. Yet we object not to ever increasing expectations such as that mere passengers in cars be expected to show drivers licenses or similar state issued ID.
But first and foremost, because of our security challenges, because of the importance of counterterrorism and security here in the state of Indiana, the driver's license, as a form of identification, must have integrity... because it is viewed in many ways as being a form of national identification.
This remark was not even treated as controversial.
Post election, one of the couple of main issues holding up passage of the intelligence reform bill in Congress has been the objection that the bill does nothing to prevent illegal aliens from getting a drivers license.
Hey, it's not supposed to be the purpose of a drivers license to ensure national security, and the federal government shouldn't have anything to do with such things in the first place.
In short, if the federal government wants to issue national ID cards that we're going to be expected to present at the behest of law enforcement, then propose it up front. That way, we can have a proper debate on the necessity and the constitutional issues involved.
Screw these backdoor methods of putting universal papers on us all, and long live the counterfeiters!
