Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 01:22:20 -0400
To: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
From: Matthew Gaylor <freematt@coil.com>
Subject: ID card: The password to the police state
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<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20011010.shtml>

Phyllis Schlafly

October 10, 2001

ID card: The password to the police state

The current attempt to inflict Americans with the burden of having to 
carry a national ID card did not begin on Sept. 11 and, indeed, is 
unrelated to it. The attack on the World Trade Center is just a 
convenient excuse to promote this thoroughly un-American idea.

Totalitarian governments keep their subjects under constant police 
surveillance by the technique of requiring everyone to carry "papers" 
that must be presented to any government functionary on demand. This 
is an internal passport that everyone must show to authorities for 
permission to travel even short distances within the country, to move 
to another city, or to apply for a new job.

This type of personal surveillance is the indicia of a police state. 
It operates as an efficient watchdog to stifle any emergence of 
freedom.


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