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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
actually New Mexico has had numerous articles in the news over the last 18 months detailing the necessity to have these cards *soon* to fly.
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Foreshadow, foreshadow.
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if you dig really deep, the articles have appeared in Washington State as well. the only reason folks aren't so upset here is that we are being told how much easier it will to be to cross the border with Canada, as opposed to New Mexicans being told that they will be treated as illegal immigrants (note: I live in Washington State and my folks live in New Mexico, I get this stuff real time, not tin foil hat time)
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KK, how dare you introduce facts into this discussion!
Folks want to cling to the beliefs we had as children, rights that we were told were inalienable. If we let people know that these rights no longer exist, that they really weren't inalienable, we shake their entire paradigm. Another
People can argue. Folks and use semantics to contort debates. These don't change the facts. Right now the issue of these Passport ID cards is being kept very, very low key in the media, just as the vote to make them mandatory was virtually unknown. You can find it if you search the public Congressional records but there was almost no media announcement.
Knowledge of this issue will touch off a powder keg of opposition, just as full understanding of the Patriot Act did for those affected by it. Fortunately for comfort, most people don't know. Unfortunately, hiding one's head in the sand won't prevent it from happening. The mandatory use of these cards will most likely ride in on the back of some other bill, or come as another 'if you don't vote against it it will become a law' as the Patriot Act did. In less than a year and a half, almost three million passport ID cards have been issued to US citizens.
According to the Passport agency,
'production of the U.S. Passport Card began on July 14, 2008. As of March 2010, more than 2,700,000 Passport Cards have been issued to U.S. citizens.' Considering that it can't be used the way a passport book can be, that's a LOT of passport ID cards already out there! I have a feeling there's a reason for that...
Stitchawl