gateman9's Journal: National ID: The Sheeple with buy it.

You know, at one point, I honestly thought that a democracy was the way to go.

Boy was I wrong.

How about a technocracy? A lot of us geeks may be misfits when it comes to social situations (myself excluded), but we by and large seem to have a very egalatarian world-view (excluding a few asshats that like to discuss in politics./. yro./. and so forth).

All jokes aside, wouldn't you like to live in a society that thought everyone was worthy of some mere modicum of respect, unless proven otherwise? A society where you are not only assumed innocent until proven guilty, but assumed respectable until proven asshat? Yeah, we'd have a hard time dealing with the Joe Sixpack (you know, this gives good six-packs a bad name, like Guiness Foreign Extra Stout or Leinenkugel's Honeyweiss), but we could find some way to work with them.

The technocracy would also understand that National ID systems and their ilk are no good. They're not hack proof (who keeps telling these security people that computers are foolproof?), they require instantaneous adoption across state boundaries, and they really don't prevent what they are said to prevent. Checking your own populace is no better than McCarthyism and accomplishes nothing.