"Clarin is the largest spanish newspaper in the world. That includes all of Latin America + Spain." [CITATION NEEDED]

"It's one of the largest companies in South America, and it has huge worldwide influences." [CITATION NEEDED]

Argentine self-aggrandizing is world-renowned so could you please back these up?

He's just playing a character: the ignorant American. I'm from a country south of the border and I'm not the least bit offended by him. I actually thought it was funny. Lighten up!

Mod parent up!

You see, all Pinochet needed were the party's memebership records, as you say. Do you think parties in the UK don't keep membership records with addresses and phones numbers? A Brit Pinochet wouldn't need a National ID card database to exterminate the opposition.

Therefore, your argument about totalitarian regimes is weak and pure paranoia.

I don't really understand all the paranoia against the government over a National ID card. The government already knows who you are. The card is just there to make everyone's life easier.

I can't even believe you people have to resort to showing electricity bills to prove your identity in Britain. WTF.

No wonder so many folks had problems voting in the last election.

Jesus, even some developing countries are more organized than Britain, without becoming police states.

You people have an unnatural, unhealthy distrust for government.

This is crazy.

Contrast this with South America, which is populated by 3 types of people: un-educated peasants, druglords, and warlords.

Wow, the sheer ignorance of your comment is frightening, although not that surprising.

It does exist. From the New Oxford American Dictionary:

irregardless (adjective & adverb [informal]): regardless.

ORIGIN early 20th cent.: probably a blend of irrespective and regardless .
USAGE Irregardless, with its illogical negative prefix, is widely heard, perhaps arising under the influence of such perfectly correct forms as : irrespective. Irregardless is avoided by careful users of English. Use regardless to mean 'without regard or consideration for' or 'nevertheless': : I go walking every day regardless of season or weather.

Sounds like a good idea to use the Census to register people. Most civilized countries have a civil registry which includes a photo and fingerprints.

Is this news? Anything that threatens the "supremacy" of the US will be looked at with suspicion by Americans. The UN, for example. Communism/Socialism is another one.

This is why Americans are so pro-Capitalism and so anti-UN and multilateral collaboration. They don't even think about these issues on their own merit, they just outright reject them.

But the same thing happens in other parts of the world, like Cuba or Bolivia, where capitalism is rejected simply because it is associated with the "evil empire".

People need to grow up and quit the rhetoric and just THINK.