....whenever we buy something with a credit card...
Businesses are explicitly not allowed to ask for your ID when you use your credit card. If they try and force you, they can lose their merchant contract with the credit card companies.
...or get stopped by the cops for any reason.
Police can demand your drivers license if they stop you while driving. You are not required to carry or show ID in other circumstances. Police are not immigration officers.
If you're not doing anything wrong and are obeying the law, what exactly do you have to fear or hide?
Then call the police and ask them to search your house. You don't have anything to hide, right? It's called presumption of innocence and due process, and they are both in the Constitution.
...but the federal government has been sitting on it hands doing nothing for long enough, while the situation has continued to get worse...
Then why didn't the Republicans, who are complaining so loudly about it now, start doing anything about it ten years ago?
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Date: 29/4/10 01:59 (UTC)Businesses are explicitly not allowed to ask for your ID when you use your credit card. If they try and force you, they can lose their merchant contract with the credit card companies.
...or get stopped by the cops for any reason.
Police can demand your drivers license if they stop you while driving. You are not required to carry or show ID in other circumstances. Police are not immigration officers.
If you're not doing anything wrong and are obeying the law, what exactly do you have to fear or hide?
Then call the police and ask them to search your house. You don't have anything to hide, right? It's called presumption of innocence and due process, and they are both in the Constitution.
...but the federal government has been sitting on it hands doing nothing for long enough, while the situation has continued to get worse...
Then why didn't the Republicans, who are complaining so loudly about it now, start doing anything about it ten years ago?