Reply #11: In a free country the government does not get to keep track of [View All]

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every single individual in it. If the government refuses to give you the ID, then you have no rights. They can make a nonperson of you.

It's a free country. We are free, we cede some power to the government to protect property and mete out justice and provide for the common defense. We elect them in, as the People. They don't keep track of us, we keep track of them.

Use a little imagination. Or study life in countries like the USSR, etc. It sounds fine until you realize what it means. Sure, life could go on and seem the same, for a while. But eventually someone is going to realize they have power, someone who works for the government. People find it irresistible. The founding fathers figured this out a couple hundred years ago, yet we still have people today who can't. Go figure.