Originally Posted by
Global_Hi_Flyer
I would posit that, like the boiling frog, that checking ID conditions the populace to be submissive to the government and accepting of endless government intrusions on our lives. Once we get used to this, there will be more and more restrictions, impediments, and hurdles to our ability to exercise those freedoms that make us Americans. To the point that the freedoms no longer exist.
So, comrade, I submit that these ID check do indeed serve a purpose in that they concentrate and build power in the Federal government.
I'm not sure that there is anyone at the federal level capable of such forward-looking planning, though. I won't argue against the statement increasing levels of ID checks and penalties for refusing to comply
are a reduction in freedom, or that people simply accepting them will lead them toward more easily accepting other intrusions (that's certainly been the case with all sorts of things throughout the history of the country), but I will argue that there's really no one capable of planning or pulling off such a coordinated action, deliberately, at the federal level.