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upon further consideration, i wonder if you couldn't fight this as unconstitutional based upon the 5th amendment. if you think you might be wanted for something, would identifiying yourself be the same as incriminating yourself? or does that amendment only apply to court-admissible testimony?
the government doesn't ever think it is abusing the people when it does things like this, it thinks it is doing the best thing for society as a whole. segregation and jim crow were considered fabulous ideas in their age. only in retrospect do we realize the harms of such policies. and zeld is on the right track, it is so much harder to undo them once they are done.
it is always better to err on the side of personal liberty and choice, even though these might open up vulnerabilities and dangerous circumstances. if we really are the freedom loving nation we claim to be, the spirit of the law should always be in what the individual CAN do, not what we CAN'T do.
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