Video! Ron Paul on Fox News - 1pm - National ID Cards

From David (Traitor) Rockefellers Memoirs....

For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have...attack(ed) the Rockefeller famiy for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over the American political and economic institution. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalist" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global, political and economical structure--one world, if you will. "If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

to "identify" but NOT our President. When the President proves he is eligible for the presidency, then he can begin to think about ID cards.

Add an amendment such that:

- The ID is connected to a national database that is immediately searchible and carries the following two bits of additional information, kept up-to-date by the appropriate federal agencies:

1) Whether the person is eligible to vote in federal elections.
2) Whether the person is legally barred from purchasing a firearm.

1) Is used as follows:

- Proof of citizenship and age is required to get the bit set.
- Criminal convictions (where applicable) clears the bit, release or pardon-with-rights-restored sets it again.
- The associated ID number is needed to register to vote in federal elections.
- The ID is required to vote at a polling place in a federal election. Arranging absentee voting requires periodic checks to insure that the person voting is still alive and is the person registered.
- The national database must be used (and updated) by the registrars of voters of the states, counties, and municipalities to insure that each voter is registered in, and votes in, no more than one place and one time for any federal election.
- (Usual hook: Withholding any election-related federal funding.)

2) is used as follows:

- Firearms dealers may interrogate the database to determine if the person in question is eligible to purchase the firearm.
- A positive response serves as an "instant background check", allowing the immediate (no waiting period) sale of firearms to the bearer and immunizing the dealer against any prosecution for allegedly selling to an unqualified individual.
- The dealer may not be required to inform the database on whether, how many, or what type of firearms were purchased. The operators of the database may not keep records of which IDs were checked or when and where. (Keeping such records subjects the operators of the database and the responsible agency to suits for statutory damages for denial of civil rights under color of law - so enforcement can be done by citizens without cooperation from prosecutors.)

The idea here is not to get this passed, but to make passing it so repugnant to certain politicians that they'll vote against it. These two amendments, if attached, should get the Democrats solidly onto the "no" side. 1) would spike the ACORN and motor-voter plus permanent-absentee vote fraud and many other ballot-box-stuffing schemes (from which they benefit selectively) and 2) will get their anti-gun faction "up in arms". B-) ) On the R side they're unlikely to draw votes from anybody who wouldn't have voted for a national ID card anyhow.)