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Civil rights group marks MLK Day with call for 'Trump card' national ID
A prominent civil rights group is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by pressing President Trump to honor his promise to create a national photo ID card for citizens.
Martin Luther King III, the oldest son of the iconic civil rights leader and a co-chairmen of the Drum Major Institute, met with Trump two years ago on MLK Day. During that meeting, the then president-elect endorsed the idea of a national photo ID. This year, the group is calling on Trump to follow through.
William Wachtel, co-founder of the Drum Major Institute, said the group sees the issue as critical to ensuring King's work to remove barriers to voting.
[...] The idea has invited controversy in the past, in particular over privacy concerns. In 2013, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a measure, the Protect Our Privacy Act, attached to a Senate immigration bill. The Paul amendment sought to prevent the creation of a national ID card, citing worries that it would make it easier for the government to track people. Wachtel sought to ease concerns about such an ID, saying it would not be mandatory and would only be an option for those who sought it.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 22 2019, @12:53AM
Clinton was the forerunner for worst candidate for tech rights, far and away above Trump even after making Pai FCC head.
Most people forget her husband supported the DMCA and since her time in congress she has supported some of the most heinous pro-copyright, pro-surveillance, and anti-tech freedom legistlation to have passed through the halls of congress.
The true problems we had were Bernie signing on with the Dems followed by the people who wouldn't have voted for Sanders choosing to vote for Clinton or Trump instead of voting Stein or Johnson. I personally think Johnson had an even crazier platform than Stein, but either of them would have been a better president than Trump or Clinton on account of their minority political status in DC, and more importantly the erosion of voter support from both the Democrats and Republicans would've shaken up the lobbying establishment, who would no longer be able to devote their largest donations to a few key candidates with the expectation of one of them winning. Combined with the federal funding the third parties would have recieved from their 5+ percent of voters, even if their bids were unsuccessful we could have 3-5 candidates recieving the federal advertising support which would make it harder for the media to leave them out in televised debates during the following election cycle, which would further erode the duopoly in politics we have in America.
Don't forget John Jackson and Jack Johnson from Futurama! They perfectly caricatured american politics... before mecha Nixon won the election in a clean sweep of the candidates :)