Let's Just Hand All of NH Over to the GOP

We may as well go ahead (4.00 / 1)

and just have the antennas installed in our heads. An entire nation of Malachi Constants marching around mindlessly...

Rented a tent, a tent, a tent;
Rented a tent, a tent, a tent.
Rented a tent!
Rented a tent!
Rented a, rented a tent.

And, let us not forget that Malachi got there by way of a worldwide economic depression, a victim of his own stock market shenanigans.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

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by: GreyMike @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 03:23:13 AM UTC

It's is the logical consequence of requiring non-citizens to (4.00 / 1)

register for work permits, if that requirement is to be in compliance with the Constitution.  It's the same principle that demands the universality of habeas corpus and marriage certification for all adults--equal treatment.  What is done to one has to be done to all.  Which is why the obligations of government are best limited.  Some people don't want to be done to and some things are best not done.
Electronic tracking of things and people is a growth industry, but the market seems to be fickle and individuals seem to be reluctant to acquire ever more gadgets.  Whenever the market is "soft" for a particular product (think butter and milk), the government is tapped for subsidies (think video equipment in schools).  A captive market, especially one where people get to spend other people's money, is always desirable.
This universal ID legislation is like the resurrection of the universal draft (involuntary servitude)-- designed to shoot down the idea.  It may also be designed to call the Republican bluff. Republicans have a habit of promoting issues that are designed to fail.

"All for one" can mean "all are enchained to secure one bad guy."  It doesn't work in practice, but it's logical.  If you eliminate all guns, no one will get shot.  

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by: hannah @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 07:17:58 AM UTC

Calling all Dem candidates in NH - (4.00 / 3)

This is a great issue for showing your independence from Party leadership. Declare your opposition to it, despite Chuck Schumer's view.

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by: elwood @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 10:14:29 AM UTC

BELIEVE?! (0.00 / 0)

When I read that, I thought it was made up-- a farce. I was looking for the sentence that said we'd all be bio-chipped. Sheesh.

This might actually solve the problem at hand, but any good solution meets additional constraints.  In this case, those constraints were not spelled out clearly enough to somebody.  They include not appearing to turn the government into Big Brother, and also not actually turning the government into Big Brother.

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by: kite @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 13:01:34 PM UTC

May Day May Day n/t (4.00 / 1)

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 14:03:15 PM UTC

whey they came for the illegals.... (4.00 / 1)

"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 14:05:22 PM UTC

on another forum (0.00 / 0)

I participate in, everyone thinks this is a grand idea - that we should all submit meekly to this - "it's just a Social Security card with a microchip in it." I'm shocked. These folks were opposed to REAL ID. They were opposed to the war, too, when it belonged to Bush. When it comes from Obama though - it's all good.

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by: susanthe @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 14:37:38 PM UTC

Obama is not the government. He is its head, for now. (0.00 / 0)

Nobody should support the government doing anything they would object to under a President they didn't like.  If this happens, it won't go on hiatus the next time a Republican sits in the oval.

Not that that should matter.  Nobody should ever stop demanding their civil liberties just because they like their leader.

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Twitter: @DougLindner

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 16:13:43 PM UTC

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If there's (0.00 / 0)

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Twitter: @DougLindner

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 16:07:55 PM UTC

AGH. (0.00 / 0)

If there's two things New Hampshirites would love, they're carrying a federal ID card and having the non-criminal general public compelled to provide the government a fingerprint or other biometric information.

Didn't New Hampshire pass some resolution or something against REAL ID years ago?

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 16:09:45 PM UTC

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Unbelieveable! (0.00 / 0)

...Count me out!...Enough is enough... (sigh)

Rep. Steven Lindsey
Keene, NH

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by: TaxiManSteveSigh @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 16:10:56 PM UTC

Dumbest idea - evuh (4.00 / 1)

Well, maybe not evuh, but it is stupid with a capital STUP!

Let me be the first to say it here at BH: I will not carry a social security card with a microchip in it. I will not require anyone applying for a job with me to produce one. If that requires civil disobedience, so be it.
 



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Sat May 01, 2010 at 18:00:26 PM UTC