Big Brother?

[xTOXICSOLDIERx]

If your into religion then you might want to check out the bible. Somewhere it says that all countries that were once invaded by rome "IN OTHER WORDS MOST OF EUROPE", a mark will emerge by "THE BEAST" and another man. These cards are already spreading all through Europe called Euro dallors. Im not saying the end is near and blah... blah... All im saying is would you want to be scanned and then judged due to what a card says?

[xTOXICSOLDIERx]

Im not really into the whole god thing but crap.... I dunno about you guys but I WILL NOT be branded by I.D.CARDS and this will only make things worse because

IF YOU TREAT SOMEONE LIKE A CRIMINAL THEN THEY MAY ACT AS CRIMINALS.

[jaguar291]

Originally posted here by xTOXICSOLDIERx
All im saying is would you want to be scanned and then judged due to what a card says?

Do you have something to hide from the card???

Well I have nothing to hide and IF people we're going to be judged due to the card wouldn't that lower crime and other illegal activity? But I don't think that this card would be a way of judging people, it would be a way for people to share information when needed.

[xTOXICSOLDIERx]

As a sKID I have I might have done some stupid sKID things. But as a man I grow & change into something better as I watch what my new life brings.

I once had a friend who trained for boarder patrol...in other words GANG STUFF. Anyways He was a great cop for years and when he went into boarder patrol they did a background check on him and he was fired just for some small stuff he did as a kid. The whole point of going under cover is to make the bad guys beleave you are one of them and then go checkout stuff than normal cops couldn't, yet what a better way to do this then a ex-hoodlem turned cop. But nooooo he didn't get the job and the police force just lost possably the only cool cop there. This is what happends when other peaple judge a good man before knowing 'em.

[th3>kLuTz]

I agree with those who are against the card. It does seem that the government is going haywire with this "national security" thing. Let me ask a question. If they are so concerned with national security, then why don't they start by taking out the flow of narcotics? We are more endangered from the inside, rotting away from the disease of drugs, then we are from overseas actions. Yes, we were attacked. I say nuke the bast****. If you screw with us, we will rock your world. You kill 5000+ of our innocent, we will retaliate with 10,000 of yours. I guarantee if we did this, we wouldn't have problems. However, we sit around with our thumbs up our buts and let the rest of the world laugh their arses off at us. I am a red-blooded american who loves his country, but i don't want to see our government punish us, the citizens, for someone elses screwup. Thats what is happening when they impose more strict "anti-terrorist" security on us. We lose our rights. We end up giving them up for a false sense of security from a beauracracy that wouldn't know trouble until it slaps them in the face. Why must we let others baby-sit us? Was this country founded by people who wanted to be baby-sat? No, by giving up our freedoms, we are betraying our founding fathers and all those who died to keep us free. OK, now i've ranted and raved. Im not a lunatic, just someone who doesn't want to see our land go to hell in a handbasket

[jaguar291]

Originally posted here by th3>kLuTz
Yes, we were attacked. I say nuke the bast****. If you screw with us, we will rock your world. You kill 5000+ of our innocent, we will retaliate with 10,000 of yours. I guarantee if we did this, we wouldn't have problems. However, we sit around with our thumbs up our buts and let the rest of the world laugh their arses off at us.

I am 100% behind you, I think we should drop a few A-bombs and that would end the Afghanistan issue.

Originally posted here by th3>kLuTz
We lose our rights. We end up giving them up for a false sense of security from a beauracracy that wouldn't know trouble until it slaps them in the face. Why must we let others baby-sit us? Was this country founded by people who wanted to be baby-sat? No, by giving up our freedoms, we are betraying our founding fathers and all those who died to keep us free. OK, now i've ranted and raved. Im not a lunatic, just someone who doesn't want to see our land go to hell in a handbasket

Again I agree with you 100% but how would a simple National I.D card be taking away our freedom, we have an SS# and a driver's license, what's another simple card to you??

[xTOXICSOLDIERx]

You said it yourself... Y do we need it when we have drivers licences. Oh and its not just another simple card... It has CREDIT, MEDICAL, BACKGROUND HISTORY, & it probably has alot of stuff in it. I mean its one thing to have this info scattered through documents & sometimes even the on .NET but !!THIS!!....... And another thing is you don't really have much choice in the matter because once the card hit $DOLLARS$ become obsolite.

Another thing is.... its not even about security. I mean this has been slowly going on years before 9/11.

I hate the idea of a card that basicly tells society what im worth to everyone else. I am "NOT" cattle waiting to be marked, sized, wieghed, & awaiting to be examined.

[Tedob1]

the only way ill carry one of those is if they pry it between my cold stiff fingers!!

BTW, i understand the EU police will be 'guarding' england with in the next 5 years, oddly enough, the same time frame is given for the formation of the 'american union' and the new monitary standard (here), the 'Amero'. Now everybody DID say they wanted this, right?

come to think of it, i havn't heard anyone in this country say they wanted this, except the people implementing it. unless there was a public referendum i missed!

the constitution's going down the tubes, intellegent transportation systems tracking our movements, "free trade" now meaning that you have to, every aspect of your life open to government scrutiny, and national id cards are yet another a good idea?

[rogue_scholarX]

Ok, I've already said my piece so this will be short. According to xmaddness then our government and our military are terrorrist organizations. What is the difference between the Al Queda blowing up a building to get America to meet it's demands, and America blowing up a building where terrorists are 'expected' to be. The main problem I have with the card is that it serves no cause, as it is we don't even know that hospitals or doctors can access our medical information. I can see no use for this, except as an attempt to invade american citizens privacy.

Do you have something to hide from the card???

Well I have nothing to hide and IF people we're going to be judged due to the card wouldn't that lower crime and other illegal activity? But I don't think that this card would be a way of judging people, it would be a way for people to share information when needed.

Ok, so i'll go through your car, search your house, and read through your files on your computer. What!? you have a problem with this, well then do you have something to hide!??? Are you a terrorist because you don't want people gathering information about you behind your back and compiling it on a server where government officials can rifle through your past and private records.. (medical records include psychiatric eval. etc as well as a simple visit for viagra. Which im pretty sure is the guy who's checking your credit's business.)Already you've begun to point fingers at those who choose to believe in freedom above the appearance of security. In doing so only proved me right.

Well, We complain about lack of security and such, but when they they try to implement something like this we scream "invasion of privacy". Who cares if big brother is watching? Atleast he protects us from the bully down the street.....

Big Bro. isn't protecting us he's watching us behind our back, did you ever have a big brother? They tend to protect you, then beat you up themselves. And this isn't for our protection, it serves nothing to protect us all it does is allow us to be herded like cattle.

1.) They have every moral right to demand it from us, if it is for our better then they have the right to do anything they feel is necessary.

2.) Governments have a "long historical record of oppression and abuse" due to a National I.D card???? Please tell more.

3.) Example: You're in a car accident, you out cold, they run a check on your National I.D see your medical status, save your life.

1. What if they decide that it's best for you to just stop breathing, or go to a 'special work' camp. You know where work can make you free(sign found above auschwitz the biggest german death camp. Over 1,000,000 served)

2. No, not due to the card, but the card could be used as a tool to identify those that they need to oppress.

3. The card has medical information, but who can access it hasn't been made public. As it is doctors usually have your med. info. on file. And if you know much about first aid, it doesn't take medical information to treat someone who's unconcious.

There isint much point worry about what big brother has in store for us, because they will force it down our throats wether we like it or not. They already fed us Echelon, Carnivore, and The UN, and now they are working on the ICC (International Criminal Court) Thankfully Bush is working to get us away from the ICC, probably the brightest thing hes done so far.

If your paying attention to the flag next to my name, I actually support the UN right now. I disagree with some of their decisions but they actually agree with me more than I agree with the US. And I'll answer your quote with a quote of my own.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbit it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me give me liberty, or give me death! --Patrick Henry

I do believe Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to have been terrorist organizations, they killed to gain their power. They used scapegoats to repair their countries and they used war for a mechanism to improve their economies. That is my definition of a terrorist.

Now x-madness, it says nowhere in the description here that this is multiple offenses. This list could include only one crime and the list would be concidered previous. In fact it is impossible for a record to be kept for crimes that are currently happening. And don't worry no insult taken.

Criminal Record:

n : a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted; "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"

Now im going to put the definition of terrorism down and I want you to think hard, and think of how many countries, legitimate governments fit the definition at least once. Think Really hard about your own country. (For us Americans think vietnam and afghanistan)

terrorism

n : the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce societies or governments
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ter·ror·ism n.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

Well i've gone off on a tangent rant, but I think i've reiterated my point and covered all of your posts that I didn't agree with, unless it was covered by another comment and sometimes even if it was.

*Penny Penny* My two cents. And really if you like more in-depth information into political leftist views listen to Jello Biafra or Noam Chomsky (one a green, the other libertarian).

[8*B@LL]

Originally posted here by TechEngine
Well, We complain about lack of security and such, but when they they try to implement something like this we scream "invasion of privacy". Who cares if big brother is watching? Atleast he protects us from the bully down the street.....

this isnt for our security, but thats what they say its for. its just like right after 9/11 when they passed TONS of bills because they put "security" or "anti-terorist" in the bill's title. what were those bills for? to take away rights of the every day citisen.

now, like they have said before, this is suposedly to "combat terrorism", but exactly WHAT makes you a terrorist? does not having a credit card make you suspect for terrorism? do certian subscriptions to magazines make you a suspected terrorist?

you see, all they can do is profile people who they think might be terrorists based on some stupid statistics, and if that means that I am going to have to go through some legal BS because i subscribe to X magazine and buy Y-brand fish sticks, then i will resist it.

infact, i'm going to go on record right now as saying if they pass such a law in the US i will not carry the card or submit information to it. i just wont do it.