On MLK day...

It would be a passport or birth certificate. 

One of my fears is that in the near future government agents will be roaming the streets demanding documents from random people. 

That sounds eerily familiar...........

Indeed.

It's frighteningly close. One of the excessive executive powers given to both the President and lesser officials--governors, mayors, etc.--is the "right" to nullify civil rights and ignore things like habeas corpus. That was firmly cemented into place when Lincoln did it in 1863.

So all that has to happen is for some government executive to declare a "state of emergency" and we can all be stopped in the street and frisked. And how is that state of emergency challenged? It can't be, outside of the courts, which takes forever, and if the court is politically aligned with the executive? Too bad, so sad!

We got real, real close with the Dubya post-911 slow panic. The Homeland Stupidity Act nullified multiple civil rights in the name of "security." And people, because they were scared of ALL THEM AY-RAB TERRURISTS, willingly went along.

Early 2002, I had a flight delayed by three hours when multiple passengers demanded that a man from Saudi Arabia be removed from the plane. He of course refused; however, he was eventually hustled away. I don't know what happened to him. I've never flown Delta since, and I never will.

It's a sad fact that our civil rights are ephemeral,  especially with the Evil Turd in charge.