{"id":9205,"date":"2010-03-12T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2010-03-12T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T13:40:39","slug":"misplaced-priorities-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9205","title":{"rendered":"Misplaced Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with gun control &#8211; one of the reasons that it&#8217;s finally stiffing with the American people &#8211; is that it burdens the law-abiding citizen for the crimes of society&#8217;s low-lifes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the reasons America is rejecting gun control; Real Americans can&#8217;t abiding punishing those who&#8217;ve done no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully that same impulse will swallow up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/588e8cae-2d48-11df-9c5b-00144feabdc0.html\">this moronic idea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill are proposing a new national biometric ID card that would be required of all U.S. workers. WSJ&#8217;s Laura Meckler explains the proposal and the objections from privacy advocates.Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, force each individual American to validate him\/herself, rather than deal with the real problems &#8211; open borders, and a socialist neighbor whose economy resembles what ours will<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ID card plan is one of several steps advocates of an immigration overhaul are taking to address concerns that have defeated similar bills in the past.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/588e8cae-2d48-11df-9c5b-00144feabdc0.html\">http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/588e8cae-2d48-11df9c5b-00144feabdc0.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet again, a cure that&#8217;s much worse than the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with gun control &#8211; one of the reasons that it&#8217;s finally stiffing with the American people &#8211; is that it burdens the law-abiding citizen for the crimes of society&#8217;s low-lifes.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of the reasons America is rejecting gun control; Real Americans can&#8217;t abiding punishing those who&#8217;ve done no wrong. Hopefully that same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}