Re: more surveillance and PostHog too

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

When, in American's history, has anyone ever favored a national ID?  I
think it is precisely this feature that distinguishes Americans from those
in other countries, especially countries in Europe.

I always wondered why, after Nazi Germany used identification papers to
target people for extermination, Germany and most other European countries
continued to maintain the practice of requiring people to keep their
identification on them at all times.  Perhaps it was lingering
anti-semitism that they just could never shake off?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:03:29 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > from electoral-vote.com
 > 
 > M.T. in Paris, France (but originally from Los Angeles), writes: 
 > This whole problem with verifying citizenship in order to register 
 > Americans to vote is actually the result of not having a national ID 
 > card like most countries have. The United States has never had this; 
 > we rely on providing our Social Security numbers for official 
 > documents, but that is not a photo ID and, besides, non-citizens 
 > also have social security numbers. Maybe universal passports would 
 > be another way to go. Make passports free, or at least inexpensive, 
 > and give them to everybody. They could be used for basic 
 > identification purposes as well as voter registration and other 
 > situations where Americans need photo ID. Bonus: Maybe more 
 > Americans would travel outside the country and see how people live 
 > in the rest of the world.