ID Theft

National ID Cards???

Why do you think that the national ID card is good/bad? I think it is a good idea. I have nothing to hide so if the government wants to follow me around they can go ahead. I also think it is a good way to help prevent identity theft, and help keep voting more secure so no one can vote unless they have the right to. I am sorry but apparently no one on here knows how to be civil. All I asked for was your opinion and I gave you mine. Why are you being so hostile? I did not say you were wrong?! Jeeze get a grip people. They are trying to make these things more secure. Social Security cards are not supposed to be used as a form of ID. If you use it as such it makes your identity more vulnerable. I don't know what they are going to do as far as passports go, but not all people have those. That is why they want these ID cards. I don't think this is a window to a "cashless" society. Just my humble opinion though. thank you for not jumping me. : ) Based on your 4th amendment logic, is it a violation of the 4th amend. for employers to have ID cards that you have to swipe in order to go threw locked doors? This way they now where you go and what you are doing?! Thank you as well for giving me an answer without being hostile. Tell me, how does an ID card tell you how to spend your money? If the states were saying they wanted a state wide ID card would it be ok then? They way this question has been answered I would guess not.

Public Comments

1. I dont understand, isn't that what social security/passports are? What is different?
2. That whole "nothing to hide" argument is crap. We've already lost the 4th amendment. Are you that anxious to give more away??
3. It doesn't matter whether I "have nothing to hide", the bozos in the government have no business invading my privacy, anymore than they already do. Perhaps we should have to get a tattoo on our foreheads or something similar?
4. Bad its clear violation of 4th amendment, the real ID act is first step for this all ID cards will have RFIDS implanted into them through them the government can track your every move and even spending, using this they will create "cashless society" were if the government doesn't approve of what your doing they can simply turn off your chip and thus your buying power, to buy food or operate in society. EDIT to be tracked by the government is in violation of the 4th amendment
5. Bad. Just another step towards implanted chips, and the complete replacement of paper money with electronic money. Also, it is a lot of government spending, with very little if any payoff. Does nothing to increase national security, in my opinion. P.S. I agree with Fretless. It matters not whether you have anything to hide. You have a right to be a very private person if you want to be. And the government has never given back to the people any right that it has taken away. Never.
6. Communists have always required National IDs. I think we should not have them because it is communistic to do so. It puts our freedoms in peril. I have nothing to hide either, but I still want to like in a free country and not under the eye of Big Brother. I traveled by train through some Communist countries in Europe. We were constantly being boarded and everyone had to produce their IDs. Once they went through the train 3 times in the same stop. I thanked God then that I was an American and didn't have to live under those conditions. I do not look forward to living like that in the future. Those conditions will also cause a civil uprising in the future, just like in the Communist countries.
7. 10th Amendment any powers not hereby specifically given to the Federal Government are hereby reserved for the states. The founding Fathers did not give the Federal Government that power, so according to the US Constitution it is illegal anyway. Further the Federal Government has already stolen to much power from the states anyway via the commerce clause, and 14th Amendment we have to ask do we want to give them more power. The answer to that is a huge NO. Further since I have nothing to hide they have no probable cause or legal reason to know who I am. This violates the 4th Amendment via the inferred right to privacy provisions it contains. Basically put the National ID act violates 2 of the Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. As such it can not be allowed and to your argument of it will keep us safer, one of the Founding Fathers had this to counter that argument "Those who would give up the freedom for security deserve neither."
8. Honestly, I think it is the beginning of the mark of the beast. I want no part of it. There are several states that have already said they are not going to implement it. They have already started giving them out in North Carolina. I guess several people have said they are quite hackable. Also, there is a picture on the back of the North American continent suggesting a North American Union. I just don't think any good can come out of it. Think about it, do you honestly believe the criminals haven't already thought of a way to get by the rules? I am sure they have. It is just another way of prying into our lives and knowing every move we make. NOT RIGHT!
9. Because what the government doesn't know, won't hurt you. If the government has nothing to hide, it has nothing to fear of letting the states take care of issuing IDs. They are trying to make things more secure for whom? while our borders are wide open, you think a national ID card is going to make you any safer? The nazis made the same promises.
10. The Real Id cards are a bad idea, for the simple fact it is a way to control us and every move we make.We do not need anyone besides ones self to control the money in which we work for. I am very much against someone to control what I spend my money on and I feel it is not their business as to what I am buying.
11. It's A OK to determine the terrorists from ordinary citizens & identify them as well if they're collaborating with such acts of terror