Which looks more like fascism to you?
I also find it rich how this party accuses others of old world fascism while dictating everyone's health care by taking over one-sixth of the economy, appropriating automobile manufacturing firms, and forming a government-corporate mutual-benefit society with Wall Street investment bankers.
Have any of these hysterical people ever tried to rent an XBox game at Blockbuster?
They demand papers! Including drivers license and a credit card, which they immediately tag as a warning to you to remember to return the game. Granted, it lacks the gravity of being stopped by the Gestapo at the Swiss border with fake identity, but this is the state of things in America today.
It starts when you are born
... and your parents submit your hospital birth papers to the county so they can generate your official birth papers called a birth certificate.
You then take that and go get your New World Order card and 666 stamp, also known as a Social Security Card with your unique Social Security Number printed on it.
If you want to travel outside of the country, you've got to use those previously mentioned papers to get "Travel Papers," also known as a passport...
When you get hired you must present a birth certificate or passport so they know who you are, and so Uncle Sam can immediately stick the withholding siphon in.
Johah Goldberg puts it all in perspective:
I agree that there's something ugly about the police, even local police, asking citizens for their "papers" (there's nothing particularly ugly about asking illegal immigrants for their papers, though).
There's also something ugly about American citizens being physically searched at airports. There's something ugly about IRS agents prying into nearly all of your personal financial transactions or, thanks to the passage of ObamaCare, serving as health insurance enforcers.Worried about government collecting your personal data? Ever heard of the IRS or the Social Security Administration? And by the way, Google and corporate America make the federal government's efforts look amateurish in comparison.
