{"id":440,"date":"2003-12-09T06:27:54","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T09:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=440"},"modified":"2003-12-09T06:27:54","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T09:27:54","slug":"show-me-your-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Show me your ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>W<\/span>hat Americans have with firearms, the Dutch have with identification cards, passports and privacy.  For years, probably since the Second World War, there was always a broad opposition against any law that forced citizens to show any ID card in public.  I remember that earlier attempts to enforce this kind of law were dutifully rejected by members of parliaments, frustating law enforcement. Eventually the Dutch reached a compromise: &#8216;could everybody pretty please carry an ID?&#8217;. As in &#8220;yes, really, pretty please&#8221;. I remember the barrage of jokes when people were asked to carry their passports, voluntarily of course. &#8216;Ausweiss bitte!&#8217; &#8216;Jawohl, mein Fuhrer!&#8217;. Or &#8216;Look at the pretty picture, that&#8217;s me and my dog&#8217;. Or &#8216;Do you want me to have a picture with wooden shoes&#8217;. Imagine that in a multicultural society.\n<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m surprised to find that the current administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/news\/news.html#3834439\">wants to enforce the Dutch to carry IDs<\/a>. As in &#8216;If you don&#8217;t have it you break the law&#8217;. Better yet, the current Justice minister says that there is a &#8216;crucial difference between the obligation to show ID as opposed to having to carry it&#8217;.  Yes, it is <em>that<\/em> crucial difference that always made this law not make it through both Legislative branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Americans have with firearms, the Dutch have with identification cards, passports and privacy. For years, probably since the Second World War, there was always a broad opposition against any law that forced citizens to show any ID card in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}