Chris Matthews announced on his program this afternoon that he's in favor of national identity cards. He says, "in this day and age," he's in favor. Well, Chris, you are being un-American with such a proposal. You want the police to stop you and ask for your identification? He even got Eliot Spitzer to agree that it's time to end our freedoms the way we've always known them. This to protect us from undocumented workers, or to track terrorists, who surely won't be traveling under their true names, or to give our police forces further means to abuse some of us?
This is getting beyond funny. This is America, Chris, a place where you can use any name you wish, go anywhere you like, and refuse to answer anyone's questions, unless it's the police and they have probable cause to suspect you of having committed a crime. This is a place where you can move and start over, if that's what you like. A national identity card anathema to our freedoms.
In Chris's haste to label Hillary he's taken the fascist trail. The point of a 'national identity card' is that you can be forced to produce it. Poor Chris, he needs a check up. Poor us, if anyone takes this seriously.