{"id":30144,"date":"2018-01-25T08:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30144"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:19:29","slug":"things-are-getting-worse-not-better-round-ups-checkpoints-and-national-id-cards-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30144","title":{"rendered":"Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards [SHORT]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards [SHORT]<\/a><\/h3>\n

Here in Amerika, things are getting worse\u2014not better\u2014as the nation inches ever closer towards totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and \u201cwe the people\u201d have none.<\/p>\n

Take what happened recently in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, immigration agents boarded a Greyhound bus heading to downtown Miami from Orlando and demanded that all passengers provide proof of residence or citizenship<\/a>. One grandmother, traveling by bus to meet her granddaughter for the first time, was arrested and taken off the bus when she couldn\u2019t provide proof of residency.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t is a new occurrence.<\/p>\n

A year ago, passengers arriving in New York\u2019s JFK Airport on a domestic flight from San Francisco were ordered to show their \u201cdocuments\u201d to border patrol agents<\/a> in order to get off the plane.<\/p>\n

With the government empowered to carry out transportation checks to question people about their immigration status within a 100-mile border zone that wraps around the country, you\u2019re going to see a rise in these \u201cshow your papers\u201d incidents.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a problem, and I\u2019ll tell you why.<\/p>\n

We are not supposed to be living in a \u201cshow me your papers\u201d society.<\/p>\n

Despite this, the U.S. government has recently introduced measures allowing police and other law enforcement officials to stop individuals (citizens and noncitizens alike), demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless searches, and interrogations.<\/p>\n

These actions fly in the face of longstanding constitutional safeguards forbidding such police state tactics.<\/p>\n

Set aside the debate over illegal immigration for a moment and think long and hard about what it means when government agents start demanding that people show their papers on penalty of arrest.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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