<...Anyone got an idea that works?

Most of the terrorists took great advantage of the ability to move around and exploit the loopholes of a free society. This is unavoidable if we are to retain any sort of freedom for our citizens. I do not, for example, support a universal ID card. Our Social Security numbers are already too damn close to this already, despite the guarantee at the beginning of the program that this number would "never be used for identification."

One workable idea would be to put the hammer down on illegal immigration, reduce the number of legal visas, and tighten our borders up. It would be nice if the word "citizen" actually had some kind of meaning again.

This is not likely to happen, since illegal immigration is currently the major reservoir of the kind of naive, uneducated voters that politicians adore, and the cheap, easily intimidated labor that goes over so nicely with certain businesses.

In fact, things are going the other way. Movements are under way right now to allow illegals to get drivers licenses. Here in California they're fixing it so illegals will be elegible for in-state tuition at colleges, something someone from Nevada would not receive. And it goes without saying that a dead fish could wash ashore in California and be eligible to vote within two weeks.

Clamp down on the borders would be step one. Step two would be to find people staying illegally on expired visas, or student visas that are not properly used, and kick their asses out of the country.

Longer term solutions would be to stop making it easy for illegal immigrants to stay here by giving them freebies that even citizens don't get. Tightening requirements and numbers for legal immigration wouldn't hurt either.

"Great ideas. Wish we'd thought of them."



- Chief Red Cloud