{"id":360,"date":"2005-01-31T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=360"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:19:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:19:04","slug":"not-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/01\/31\/not-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Not again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/020766.php\">Instapundit.com &#8211; It&#8217;s not a national ID card<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not the national ID card argument again. In case anyone from Congress is reading this (highly unlikely, but I can hope) let me re-state the facts again for you:<\/p>\n<p>A NATIONAL ID WILL NOT MAKE US ANY SAFER. IT DOES NOT WORK. GIVE IT UP.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case anyone from Congress is reading this (highly unlikely, but I can hope) let me re-state the facts again for you: A NATIONAL ID WILL NOT MAKE US ANY SAFER. IT DOES NOT WORK. GIVE IT UP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-5O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":563,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/07\/05\/a-tribute-to-charles-clarke-and-his-id-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":0},"title":"a tribute to charles clarke and his id cards","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 5, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently the British are trying to implement a national ID card - and someone didn't like the idea. The above-linked flash animation is the result - I highly recommend watching it.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;fun stuff&quot;","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":716,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/04\/03\/movie-plot-threats\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":1},"title":"Movie-Plot Threats","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"\"They're good for scaring people, but it's just silly to build national security policy around them.\"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6230,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2025\/02\/03\/executive-fiat\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":2},"title":"Executive Fiat","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Presidential power has been slowly but steadily increasing, and especially so in recent years, but now it's gotten dangerous - and I worry that we've passed a tipping point and the \"checks and balances\" of our government are no longer able to compensate.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":491,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/15\/more-real-id-stuff\/","url_meta":{"origin":360,"position":3},"title":"More REAL ID Stuff","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 15, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's some select reading. The first 3 articles are from Bruce Schneier's \"Crypto-Gram\" newsletter; the other one is an EPIC article. 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