"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The New National Identification System Is Coming
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2013-02-03 01:00
“'Maybe we should just brand all the babies.' With this joke, Ronald Reagan swatted down a national identification card — or an enhanced Social Security card — proposed by his attorney general in 1981. For more than three decades since, attempts to implement the proposal have all met with failure, but now national ID is back, and it’s worse than ever."
0
Your rating: None
- Login to post comments
User Login
Search This Site
Related Columns
- Warrantless Searches and Criminal Government Bureaucrats (But I Repeat Myself)
- Ed Schultz and His Alleged Middle Class Heroes
- How Did Americans Become Poor?
- Neocons and Progressives: One Big Family of Aggressors and Central Planners, with Delusions of Grandeur
- 'Anarchy or Minarchy' Is Only Half the Question
Recent comments
-
It just never, ever stops, does it?1 week 5 hours ago
-
Professor Young, you’ve provided a rather objective observat...3 weeks 7 hours ago
-
Good.4 weeks 1 day ago
-
This is really getting out of control now.6 weeks 6 days ago
-
Sorry to hear that. I haven't been in touch with anyone...7 weeks 9 hours ago
-
Evidently, either Ian Freeman (Barnard) and/or Pete Eyre won...7 weeks 20 hours ago
-
https://everything-voluntary.com/carl-watner-rest-in-peace-1...7 weeks 3 days ago
-
The one and only time I ever spoke with him "in person...7 weeks 3 days ago
-
A really good, succinct one.7 weeks 6 days ago
-
This is awesome. :-)8 weeks 3 days ago
more