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ID card comments on Samizdata White Rose readers will surely appreciate being told, if they don’t know it already, that a short posting by Gabriel Syme about compulsory ID cards, and about White Rose’s campaigning against them, was put up at Samizdata.net last Sunday.
The point is the comments, of which there have been 22 so far (Tuesday evening). The worst of the comments about anything on Samizdata are the usual abusive or incomprehensible nonsense (and the worst of them of all get deleted), but the average is good, and the best are often outstandingly interesting and informative, fully worthy to be postings in their own right on the average blog.
The ID card debate can get subtle, and lots of these subtleties are teased out in these particular comments.
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Fight this issue with all your might…here in America our raving socialists (otherwise known as the disloyal opposition) in the democratic party bring this issue up EVERY year. And every year Constitutional conservatives shoot it down.
It’s a trifle odd, but the ID card issue is one of the few things (unfortunately) that makes a majority of voters (independents and those on the right) uneasy. Evidently common sense hasn’t been totally bred out…yet.
REMEMBER! Registration = Control (That’s why we still possess arms, which makes some pols uneasy…which is a good thing)
I keep repeating this over and over, but I do so because I think it is the key point in the whole argument. The idea of ID cards makes a lot of people a little uneasy, and these people lie all over the political spectrum. The more they here about it, the more uneasy they get. The longer and louder the argument becomes, the more opposition to the card there will be. Which is why we have to be loud (and keep repeating ourselves).