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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (50106)	8/20/2005 4:06:49 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005 11:04 a.m. EDT Roberts Backed National ID Card Despite proclaiming his devotion to the preservation of civil rights, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts supported the idea of issuing a national identity card, newly released documents show. Stating that he yielded "to no one in the area of commitment to individual liberty against the spectre of overreaching central authority," he went on to write: "We already have, for all intents and purposes, a national identifier - the Social Security number - and making it in form what it has become in fact will not suddenly mean Constitutional protections would evaporate and you could be arbitrarily stopped on the street and asked to produce it."