I know that I disgust you - don't kill me for that.
Thinking purple means to me: I listen and try to figure out what the context is. I ignore my reservations and try to find out what is ok or what is not ok. I try to be objective. It is easier for me than for you, I guess.
I watched your Big Leader in case of the frontier and the immigrants (op-ed in Yuma). I noticed his presentation and I heard his claiming to God (nation based on God and something about the allmighty). I didn't only watch - I listended also. It sounded plausible in the context.
I don't refer to the immigrants who are in the US already. I think at the immigrants who sneake the border illigally and try to get some work in the US. I understand that very well. But I understand as well, that a State can't allow that just like that.
more below the fold.
Look - we in Europe have the same problem with people from the Eastern countries of Europe and especially from Africa. Last week they caught 1000 Africans who tried to come to Spain. Italy also has that problem. These countries aren't able to take them. So they have patrols who protect the water borders. Caught illigals are sent back to the place, where they came from. That are the costal States in northern Africa. The most immigrants come from inner Africa. The African costal States are overstrained too. One solution may be, to help this people to stay where they come from. To stabilize their life their. Europe is trying that in small steps (not always in the right way) - but that is a try.
http://service.spiegel.de/...
Their identification is difficult. They have no ID-card. In Europe everybody has an ID-card - and nobody got killed by having it. We got used to it. Without an ID-card you don't exist in the bureaucracy - ok , bureaucracy is manmade and not very comfortable. Often it is real funny.
GWB said that immigrants can make a request to get an limited ID-card. So they can come to the States to work there (lets say for a season). And then go back. That is a limited green card (right?). This model is practised in Switzerland. They don't allow to stay there after the season is over. In Switzerland don't work (with this license) only poor people. That are normal European people. That are harsh restrictions - but they do not harm.
An ID-card in the States is the same as when guns get forbidden. Last year I watched a private video where an old man didn't want to show the police an identification. He got arrested. They handcuffed him and his granddaughter.
Is that part of your freedom, not to tell who you are. For me it is not understandable (ok - I'm an European). BTW - ID-cards solve some of the problems in elections too.
Insurance number - are all Americans insured?
Ok - an ID-card is a registration of your person. That doesn't mean that you are a slave of the Government. It doesn't bother your freedom at all.
Dear readers - I'm no Republican - I'm just an non-American observer. Sometimes I shake my head, and thinK: ok - that is a different country, that are different people with different values and so on. But - are we that different? I don't think so.