An ID is optional.

Not if you want things, like to work, or the right to vote, or a large list of other things.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Ya, you can. Many jobs you do not need an ID. For other things you can use your birth certificate or other forms.

A birth certificate is a type of ID. Most jobs require two forms of ID (one from column B and one from C), unless you keep your passport on your person, than you only need one.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

A clear example of what I said earlier about the "silly and misguided notion of feeling more 'secure.'"

Well, keep on believing that the government is your friend and that its motives are pure.

Typical American sheeple!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

With that, you've said absolutely nothing of any value. If all you have to contribute is fallacies to this, than that speaks for itself.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

The government has no right to collect that information. My moral position. If you are convicted of a crime, that's a different story.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you read the article, it says that it only applies to criminals and thoughs that handle confidential material, like other people's social security numbers.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Please explain the phrase "thoughs that handle confidential material, like other people's social security numbers." What exactly are "thoughs"?

You really don't get it do you? It's a short step from applying this to criminals and people who handle other people's Social Security numbers (pretty much any employer, credit provider, government employee, etc.) to every American citizen.

Take your damned socialist ideas and go live in Europe!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Then aint they allready doing that?