National ID Card? Didn't Nazi Germany start this way?
402885
Its called a cashless society and yes it will happen. Congress is trying to push it though. \nNO I don't think its right, It just might happen round up all these 11 million illegals and start giving them the ID cards just might be what the government is planning?
102021
If we look to the current government in Germany, we see a something amazing taking place.  The Neo-Nazi political structure is gaining more ground with every election that takes place.  The last time I heard, the German political arena had 10% of its representatives under the Neo-Nazi party.  Why is this taking place, this day in age in Germany?  One answer, the people know that the Neo-Nazis in power will work to pass harder sanctions against the large influx of Middle Eastern immigrants coming into the Country.  These middle easterners are seen as a threat for increased chance of terrorism to take hold and shatter their way of life.  So, I guess if you are German, and afraid of losing a grip on your way of life the answer would be to join and support the Neo-Nazi party.\n\nHowever, in America, the idea of being a "Nazi" is nothing more than a representation of the ignorance within.  People who "claim" to be Nazi are just angry punks, wearing combat boots, beating up people who are "different" from them, but who don't wear the fancy robes that the Klan wear. \n\nIn both cases listed above, I think if you are a scared individual who still believes that people should be divided into different "races", and that you are in some way (insert laugh here) superior to those other "races" then by all means get yourself a pair of combat boots and call yourself a Nazi....
676213
I heard that in Australia and US (I think, 2 countries that use ID cards anyway) there is a much higher rate of identity theft, because all someone would need to steal your identity is one card instead of having to go through loads of bills etc. to get all your details. I think it's the most stupid idea and you'll probably end up having to have an ID card to prove who you are in order to get an ID card, or you'll need a passport, driving licence or some other such thing that not everybody has.\n\nThen again if they introduced them and someone stole the identity of someone like the prime minister and got all his money then they'd just see how silly an idea it was.
1156097
yeah.. bcoz it DOES NOT exist. Get the damn point..or get the ID right, my friend!
311836
Some of you people relly amaze me.  Your identity is the only real thing that you have.  I have worked too hard for some idiot trying to make a quick buck or an illegal trying to get legitmacy using my name to take this as some that just happens.  That is BS.  As far as taking kids id's, these kids will have a hard time in the future when they are applying for college or a loan and they can't prove that they are truly who they say they are.\n\nStop making excuses or putting your heads in the sand, because your head may be in the sand, but your ass is going to be trying to get out of jail because someone with your id just committed a crime.
894069
We already have this, it is called the Social Security Card.\n\nEvery employer can call the SSA and verify the information of a given social security number.  Our government has just made it so difficult to do this that most employers will not take the time.\n\nWhen you are hired for a job, you are supposed to provide I-9 documentation.  You can use a passport, or state issued id & social security card (not just number), or birth certificate & ss card, etc.  \n\nThere are already laws and fines in place regarding improperly documenting your workers.  The problem is our elected officials would rather waste our money & time by presenting completely new regulations (justifying their jobs) instead of making the appropriate government administration enforce the laws we already have.\n\nPoliticians are becoming better and better at doing nothing but creating redundent worthless laws.  And we keep re-electing them.\n\nSo I would NOT vote for this ridiculous limit on my freedom and waste of the American taxpayers' monies.
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They are a complete waste of taxpayers' money and will do nothing to prevent crime, terrorism or illegal immigration.\n\nThe terrorists who crashed planes on 11 September all had valid IDs and passports as did the Madrid bombers.\n\nIf ID cards stopped crime, terrorism and illegal immigration then there would be none in countries with ID cards like Sweden, Portugal, Spain..........
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When Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, no programme for genocide had been delivered; this system was to arrive with the increased technology facilitated by warfare. But anti-semitism - and the concept of racial purity - was a significant aspect of the Nazi promise of recovery made to a nation ravaged by World War One. The Jews were the primary target in Nazi ideology; they were believed to stand directly in the path of Germany's progress, and they were the main subject of Nazi conspiracy theories.\n\nBeginning with small-scale persecution, the Nazis followed with legal measures to exclude Jews from German society. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 denied German citizenship to anyone Jewish. With anti-semitism came the need to classify race; German schoolchildren were instructed on how to identify a Jew by shape of nose, mouth and cranium. They were given picture books to read, warning them against the so-called dangers of association with Jewish children. Anyone with 'one-eighth Jewish blood' (a Jewish grandparent) was considered a Jew. Propaganda became rife: a film was released that compared Jews to rats.\n\nA conference of ministers was held on August 20, 1935, to discuss the economic effects of Party actions against Jews. Adolf Wagner, the Party representative at the conference, argued that such actions would cease, once the Government decided on a firm policy against the Jews. \n\nDr. Schacht, the Economics Minister, criticized arbitrary behavior by Party members as this inhibited his policy of rebuilding Germany's economy. It made no economic sense since Jews had certain entrepreneurial skills that could be usefully employed to further his policies. Schacht made no moral condemnation of Jewish policy and advocated the passing of legislation to clarify the situation. \n\nThe following month two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg, becoming known as the Nuremberg Laws. Both measures were hastily improvised (there was even a shortage of drafting paper so that menu cards had to be used) and Jewish experts from the Ministry of the Interior were ordered to Nuremberg by plane. \n\nThe first law, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between “Jews ” (the name was now officially used in place of “non-Aryans ”) and “Germans ” and also the employment of “German ” females under forty-five in Jewish households. The second law, The Reich Citizenship Law, stripped Jews of their German citizenship and introduced a new distinction between “Reich citizens ” and “nationals.” \n\nThe Nuremberg Laws by their general nature formalized the unofficial and particular measures taken against Jews up to 1935. The Nazi leaders made a point of stressing the consistency of this legislation with the Party program which demanded that Jews should be deprived of their rights as citizens.
960919
Well, I would think banks want your drivers license as a form of ID, but Im pretty sure if you asked a bank, you could use your passport as a form of ID
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if u mena like does a foreigner have the right to demand one... then no but as someone who already has one and wants to use it identify themselves then i guess still no cuz someone could steal your number and would then steal your identity
951581
Oh noes! Looks like you'll have to get a fake ID
967390
You are on one of my bugbears!\nI actually looked this up to be sure I wasn't wrong, and I wasn't. \n"Police state = a totalitarian state controlled by a political police force that secretly supervises the citizens' activities".\nBy that deffinition we are already a long  way down the road that leads to a total police state.\nCCTV cameras secretly supervise most UK citizens 300+ times per day.\nThe proposed ID card will enable thousands of workers in the police, health services, social security, local government, central government, the military, education (including colleges and universities), uncle Tom Cobbly and all, to have access to 50 (at the moment, but with the capability of extending the databases) VERY personal bits of information about each one of us. Once into that database, and we have NO degree of security of our personal information from any one individual or group that decides to misuse it.\nRFID chips implanted in passports, the ID card, even the bunch of flowers I bought my aunt at Tesco, enable tracing of our movements.\nMobile 'phones already enable any individual not only to be traced, but, with the use of simple computer programming readily available, and used by the government, to have their non-phone conversations, as well as their telephonic ones, to be listened to.\nTracking of cars is alraedy being carried out with registration plate recognition systems.\nThe list really does go on and on and on and on and on. \nWe are watched, listened to, tracked, spending habits recorded, spied on 24/7.\nWho watches the watchers? Why, they watch themselves, with no inconvenient accountability.\nWe are allowing ourselves to be sleep-walked into a truly totalitarian police state because, as is so often said in this forum "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear". This attitude may well be not very unreasonable at the moment, and with a relatively benign government, but, and it is a really HUGE "but", we are allowing the introduction of ever more intrusive surveillance, supervision and control with each day that passes.\nFreedoms hard fought for and hard kept are being eroded daily, and little or nothing is said to prevent it.\nNo, we do not YET live in a police state, but we will. We will, and in my lifetime, due to the complacency, comfort, laziness and lack of foresight of the majority of the population, who are unwilling, or unable, to take a long, hard and critical look at what is happening around them.
746685
Everyone has to provide identification to rent from someone. I did not hear that one yet, it is just as lame as the race card. Ignore whoever said that.
818980
I don't have a problem with a National ID, although the Real ID Act to which you refer to does not mandate a national ID, but rather the insertion of RFID tags into state driver's licenses. You are correct in your statement that states refusing to implement this technology will make it impossible for their citizens to travel on airplanes and trains. My problem with this whole thing is not the ID itself, but rather the use of chip technology. I am completely against this type of technology being used for private and sensitive information because the information cannot be properly protected. Another disturbing fact is that the Federal government is forcing the states to bear the cost of this program making it another unfunded federal mandate.\n\nuknowitainteasy: Just an FYI it has already passed. It was quietly pushed through last year.
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It's not a matter of not knowing, it's not being interested. I, personally, tracked down the person who stole my identity to obtain all kinds of consumer goods and even surgery using my information and nobody pursued it at all. Since then, I've met at least ten people whose identities have been stolen by illegal immigrants or people with ties to terrorists and they all had the same experience with the police not even caring to make a report or follow through. Our information is being stolen with a blind-eye approval from the government.
1074694
Not really understanding your question.  But giving ID cards to all it's citizens is a good idea, for identification purposes.  Still don't know what you mean, i can see your english is not that good.
173492
This question has been run into the ground.  The Holocaust of the 1930'and 40's was a factual occurrence in the history of man.  There are to many living witnesses, physical evidence,and documentation to think otherwise.  It does not matter how many times this question is asked, it is not going to make the facts change to meet your needs.