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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Cite please. Everything I read makes it an alternative to a U.S. Passport, not an ID card.
None of *us* voted for the Patriot Act. Our representative in Congress did.
Let's not start passing around conspiracy theories without some kind of proof. And the Tea Party doesn't count.
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No conspiracies. The law was introduced to congress two years ago to make the Passport card mandatory for interstate travel. It was voted down, but by a small margin. Public record.
If you look at the US Passport site, you'll see that the card is NOT an alternative to the passport book. It states that specifically on it's information page. It can NOT be used for air travel at all, but can be used for passage into Canada and Mexico by rail, road, or sea. Gone are the days when all one needed was a birth certificate or driver's license for that.
As for voting 'for' the Patriot Act, in fact,
no one did. It was enacted as a emergency temporary action by Presidential seal right after 9/11, written to last just one year. However, written into the wording of the Act
was the condition that unless formally repealed after one year, it would go into permanent effect. It is now law; the formal denial of many of the rights granted by the US Bill of Rights.
We don't gotta like it. But it's our law now.
Stitchawl