Federal ID: The "Real-ID" ?

Employers could get an immediate mini-background check with an ID card and have a fighting chance to not endanger kids with a sex offender. It would also make identify theft more difficult to accomplish and make it far more difficult for identity thieves to profit from that kind of activity....

Foxfyre wrote:

Employers could get an immediate mini-background check with an ID card and have a fighting chance to not endanger kids with a sex offender. It would also make identify theft more difficult to accomplish and make it far more difficult for identity thieves to profit from that kind of activity....

If such really would be possible with an ID-card, I would oppose it strongly - and we have got them here since 70 years.

I have to agree with Walter on this one.

It should be a valid form of ID, period. No other information regarding background should be made available other then to officials that would need access to such information (i.e. police).

But that was not to identify people based on the crimes they had committed. It was to identify people based on their race or religion or who they are. That is not the same thing.

For the record, criminal acts and charges are public information. I can look you up and see what you've done if I wanted to. Actually, if you want, you can go to Virginia's website and look up the 4 tickets I've got. They're all on there.

For the record, criminal acts and charges are public information. I can look you up and see what you've done if I wanted to. Actually, if you want, you can go to Virginia's website and look up the 4 tickets I've got. They're all on there.

Foxfyre wrote:

But that was not to identify people based on the crimes they had committed. It was to identify people based on their race or religion or who they are. That is not the same thing.

It was part of the criminal judicature.

I see that as open door for all kinds of discrimination.

You realize that if an 18 year old is convicted of having sex with a 17 year old they are considered a sex offender. Should that person have to carry that around with them for the rest of their lives? What kind of life do you envision for those who can never escape their past?

USAFHokie80 wrote:

For the record, criminal acts and charges are public information. I can look you up and see what you've done if I wanted to. Actually, if you want, you can go to Virginia's website and look up the 4 tickets I've got. They're all on there.

Yes. Tickets for wrong ways or speeding tickets or whatever. I don't have a lot of problem with forgiving those once the fine is paid. But if all four are for drunk driving and your license is revoked there, all you have to do is move to New Mexico, apply for a new license, pass the test, and you're back on the road. If you had to present a national ID card to prove your identity and legal status in the country, however, it could contain a chip identifying you as a person ineligible for a driver's license based on your drunk driving record. And New Mexico wouldn't then be obligated to provide you with a license.

I am considering the downside of that. I haven't come up with one yet.
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--Foxfyre

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I?-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

There are some forms of discrimination that are not only moral but necessary in a free society.

Foxfyre wrote:

There are some forms of discrimination that are not only moral but necessary in a free society.

Well, you see, and in that case we have our constitution (and the constitutional court) which doesn't allow it.

I see that as open door for all kinds of discrimination.

You realize that if an 18 year old is convicted of having sex with a 17 year old they are considered a sex offender. Should that person have to carry that around with them for the rest of their lives? What kind of life do you envision for those who can never escape their past?