Reply #131: You're awful protective of the right to vote in a country that has always held these ideals [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Under common law that the British Commonwealth started dispensing with
around the time we broke away from them. I expect when you DO get the
right to vote as a US citizen, you'll demand your voter ID (because a
drivers license shouldn't suffice, should it?) be processed quickly
because you are a first class citizen who understands what America
SHOULD be, and not what America IS or WAS. Why do you consider
citizenship in need of verification out of fear of Mexicans and
Canadians (and inner-city blacks or other suspicious looking characters
who cannot show their papers) when you aren't a citizen yet?

We (liberal Americans) are the ones who are saying that we don't
have a problem with US being able to vote as we always have done,
without being asked to prove we aren't Canadians. This puts you out
how? If National IDs are so "modern", why are thay needed in a state
like, oh, I dunno, Australia? To keep Osama Bin Laden from voting?
Or do you just want to feel like your citizenship means something,
that "someone somewhere isn't gaming the system while you're working
hard to become one"?

How come labor and capital recruited by big businesses can move freely
in the new "ultra modern" free trade zones, yet citizenship rights are
personalized, granulated by region (which schools you can enroll in,
where you can get a license etc.) and tied to an object (a card) and
thus restricted, while the European Union tries to sideline
democratically elected parliaments in favor of Soviet-style
superrepresentation?