[Heaven] A High-Tech National ID Card?
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High-Tech National ID Card?
Trust in the federal government is at one of
its lowest levels in the last 50 years. Tea
partiers suspect the Obama administration of
plotting to establish totalitarian rule.
Talk of secession is in the air in some
states. And Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
has a great idea: Issuing every American a
Social Security card with information from a
fingerprint or retinal scan. What's the
matter, Senator? Are you afraid our paranoia
is fading? If so, you're on the right track.
If you want to give Americans the willies,
biometric national ID cards are the way to
do it. Schumer thinks this step is crucial
to making our immigration laws enforceable.
But even it were to work exactly as
designed, I don't think Ameicans would stand
for it. A lot of people don't even like
filling out census forms, seeing the
questions as an invasion of privacy. Giving
fingerprints to the feds is not going to be
a popular idea. Who knows what uses it might
have to officious government agencies? As
the American Civil Liberties Union notes,
the new ID could be required for voting,
buying a gun, getting on an airplane, and
who knows what else. All this for what? To
keep poor foreigners from taking arduous,
low-paying jobs. A lot of Americans want to
put an end to illegal immigration. But if
the price of that achievement is lining up
at the federal building for a retinal scan,
I'm betting we'll choose not to pay it.
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