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I submit this question to a U.S. Citizens and all that live in the United States. But please, any and all from other countries please give some feedback as to the way it is in your country and what you think about this.
There is Congessional deliberation over the RealID Act of 2005 (H.R. 418). It has raised questions about the need for a National ID Card. Now this act would allow federal officers to include driver's license info/data in a network of databases. Now this act doesn't specifically call for an ID card but many of this acts opponents are saying that this act could lead to that. Now imagine a driver's license becoming a traking device that's able to monitor your every move. Now the proponents of this act say that it would be a usful tool against terrorism. Some say it's not a bad idea.
Now I have read and heard some people say, "We're going to have to get use to the idea of giving up some freedoms inorder to protect ourselves". Others, "I already have a national ID card-it's called my Social Security card. We don't need any more government intervention, terrorism or not".
I myself feel that the government, our U.S. government is taking away more and more of our rights and freedoms as U.S. citizens. They use the blanket term of "terrorism" and "national security" as excuses for taking these rights away from us. We where givin the rights anfd freedoms we have by our founding fathers when the created the Constitution of the United States.
The Preamble says it all:
So I guess we are supposed to give up our liberties huh? It kinda gets me like the situation on Illegal Aliens in this country, that they (the government ) doesn't want them to be able to have or get a driver's license. Now are we going to go back to when we had people on the roads and highways driving illegally (Yes there are still some out there, but not as many)? And when they are involved in an accident with someone that has a license, what? If they don't have a license they sure aren't going to have insurance. So the person that gets hit is shiit outta luck? What if your car is totalled and you don't have a brand new car, it's an old car, but the only one you could afford and your insurance company is only paying you some crap amount for it's value. Who is going to help you, the government? Are they going to replace your car? Hell no! They are only worried about illegals having a driver's license. They could care less about the consequences of someone out there driving without one and causing serious harm without any insurance or any way of paying the insured licensed driver. Now if they (illegals) and we (citizens) all had a license there would be less problems.
There is Congessional deliberation over the RealID Act of 2005 (H.R. 418). It has raised questions about the need for a National ID Card. Now this act would allow federal officers to include driver's license info/data in a network of databases. Now this act doesn't specifically call for an ID card but many of this acts opponents are saying that this act could lead to that. Now imagine a driver's license becoming a traking device that's able to monitor your every move. Now the proponents of this act say that it would be a usful tool against terrorism. Some say it's not a bad idea.
Now I have read and heard some people say, "We're going to have to get use to the idea of giving up some freedoms inorder to protect ourselves". Others, "I already have a national ID card-it's called my Social Security card. We don't need any more government intervention, terrorism or not".
I myself feel that the government, our U.S. government is taking away more and more of our rights and freedoms as U.S. citizens. They use the blanket term of "terrorism" and "national security" as excuses for taking these rights away from us. We where givin the rights anfd freedoms we have by our founding fathers when the created the Constitution of the United States.
The Preamble says it all:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
So I guess we are supposed to give up our liberties huh? It kinda gets me like the situation on Illegal Aliens in this country, that they (the government ) doesn't want them to be able to have or get a driver's license. Now are we going to go back to when we had people on the roads and highways driving illegally (Yes there are still some out there, but not as many)? And when they are involved in an accident with someone that has a license, what? If they don't have a license they sure aren't going to have insurance. So the person that gets hit is shiit outta luck? What if your car is totalled and you don't have a brand new car, it's an old car, but the only one you could afford and your insurance company is only paying you some crap amount for it's value. Who is going to help you, the government? Are they going to replace your car? Hell no! They are only worried about illegals having a driver's license. They could care less about the consequences of someone out there driving without one and causing serious harm without any insurance or any way of paying the insured licensed driver. Now if they (illegals) and we (citizens) all had a license there would be less problems.