Mein Papers!!!

Look, I know I've been quiet for the past few weeks, but this seemed serious enough to bring me back out of my hole of solitude...boy that sounds cheesy. Anyways, there is this bill, getting kicked around congress. From what I can tell, since, of course, I'm lazy and all that, just like every other joe schmuck out there who actually gets to decide who becomes part of the washington leadership, I haven't read it, it involves creating a cookie cutter design for state ID cards.

Okay, great idea, grand idea, you're probably thinking. That'll stick it to the terrorists, have the federal government design the ID cards with intent to...ah, screw the fun wordplay. It's a bad deal! First off it opens us up to a national ID card, with a chip inside it that tells where you are at any given time. Then that opens us up to national checkpoints. National checkpoints to stop terrorists, of course. Then, once the federal government has branched into the ID market, they'll take the gloves off, start up the ol' print works and next thing ya know, you'll have a fuckin' whole book of papers you need just to keep from being seized under suspicion of terrorism. Seriously. You will need travel clearance to be able to travel from state to state. New documents and changed documents will be issued every few weeks/months, and you'll be required to keep up with them. If not, you'll be whisked away to be interrogated to see why you failed to maintain your papers.

Maybe I'm being to...what's the word...unrealistic...no, that's not it, this happened in Germany, the former USSR, Iraq, Iran, Somolia...or maybe you think "Never in America! It's unconstitutional!", Well, yanno, you've got nothing to hide, do you? Besides, regulating traffic throughout the united states is quite constitutional, yes indeedy, the interstate commerce clause tells me so. Or, at least, that's how the EPA got founded. Oops, did I just let that slip?
Okay, so we have the interstate commerce clause pluggin' away here. We have papers that keep us defended from terrorism. Where is the unconstitutionalism? It's not unlawful search and siezure. The gubment ain't searchin' it ain't seizin'. Hmmm...not the first, they aren't preventing you from doing, saying, gathering, or worshiping with the papers, nuh-uh. You still have your guns...so where /are/ they violating you with the papers? I dunno, really, which is why it can happen.

So, uh, write your congressman, tell your senator, and rememember this. You drew the line back at the constitution. Now they're saying to take one step forward each day. Just one step you say, and every day you do that. Now, turn around and see how many miles you, your parents, your grandparents, their parents, their grandparents. See how many steps you have taken over the years. See how many miles you have traveled from the original constitution. You like what you see? No? Well, how about just one more step?..