Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
If you're talking about large bodies of text, then yes, they're in proper cases.
Things which are for ID or business purposes, official use, are almost always in all caps for easy reading. There's a reason official forms always remind you "please print".
Court documents often (but not always) start with naming parties in all caps, this is not because the parties are corporations or that they're necessarily in commerce, just that they are names, and are least affordable to be spelled or read incorrectly. Unlike discourse, exchanges, messages, explanations which one can use a dictionary to aid if necessary.
Seriously though, if having your name is all caps bothers you, don't have one. This Kabbalah Centre logic is childish, the idea that the way, shape or form your name is written gives magical powers.
Last edited by Becker; 11-28-2011 at 08:20 PM.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
Some video on the subject. Food for thought.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
"No man escapes when freedom fails; The best men rot in filthy jails. And those that cried 'Appease! Appease!' Are hanged by those they tried to please." Author Unknown
I get that part, but since when did he say individual sovereignty requires or is symbolized by lack of gold fringe?
If he never has, isn't it unfair to try to post pics of him as if he's agreeing with the conspiracy theorist.
I don't dispute that Paul stands for liberty, sovereignty and all that good stuff. That doesn't mean I buy the fringe claims about the flag. And I've shown multiple pictures when Paul has no problem being around them.
Quiz: Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
"No man escapes when freedom fails; The best men rot in filthy jails. And those that cried 'Appease! Appease!' Are hanged by those they tried to please." Author Unknown
If I had to guess, they're all all caps, for the reason I stated, because names and addresses are too important to be misread. Sorry I didn't word it clearly, not all documents which can serve ID purposes are called IDs. (for example a newspaper article can ID you by name, rather than by photo, that doesn't mean the article or your name is an official ID of any sort, just that the mention of your name is.)
With that said, don't compare IDs with other documents, if they are for different purposes, they will be written different.
Let's say I grant you (and I don't have to, just making the best case) that your ID treats you as a business corporation, for all purposes of driver licenses, and ID, what's wrong with that? Does a card have power over you outside of the context of where you use it?
Last edited by Becker; 11-28-2011 at 08:37 PM.