Mandatory ID cards

The Brits are suggesting requiring every citizen to carry a national ID card. I truly hope they do not. The Police State mentality since 9-11 has persisted far too long and too broadly. Tell me what terrorist would have been stopped by an ID card? Their passports and their names on terrorist flag lists should have stopped some of the hijackers on 9-11 but it did not.

Remember Bush kept telling us not to let the terrorists win? Honey, that's all they've been doing. He's been the pied piper leading the march down that strange rabbit hole of fear and loathing.

The other night, in Web surfing, I saw someone postulate, "Al Qaeda will do everything in its power to insure Bush is re-elected."

At first, that struck me as so strange. Yet the more I thought about it, and the number of times our administration's response seemed to be exactly what people "who hate freedom loving Americans" would do. A freedom lover wouldn't re-elect Bush. But someone so afraid that they're willing to drop their pants to allow an alien anal probe at the airport to fly would vote for Bush. Nauseatingly scary thought.