REPLY TO POST #64
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post.. As you are obviously aware, A drivers license IS the most common form of ID, and as you correctly stated, it is not REQURIED, unless of course you want to drive...
I support the standarization of drivers licenses, ISSUED BY THE STATES, NOT the Federal Government, this would prevent a person who has a LONG history of offenses in one state from simply moving to another state and getting a "Clean Slate".. I see this often, and I think that it is important for us to create a system that does not make it so easy for people to have numerous "identities".
I know this view will cost me a few votes from my libertarian friends, but I think the benefits of such a system outweigh the "anti-privacy" claims..
David C. Osborne (For U.S. Senate in 2004)
David
Thanks for clarifying, and to be honest perhaps I could be convinced to go along with your approach. At least more so than people who want to create a whole new card and federal database and bureaucracy and so on.
I still just bristle at the term "voluntary", however. I don't see the need to call it "voluntary", and find it slightly misleading, especially when presumably it would be de facto necessary to get them (in the form of state Driver's Licenses, or whatever) to live any sort of ordinary existence. Of course, I have much the same problem with calling Driver's Licenses "voluntary", so maybe it's just me... :)
As for your concerns about "clean slates" and so on - while warranted I'm sure, I thought this was supposed to be about fighting terrorism, in particular. And to be quite honest I'm not convinced that any new, expanded "ID" proposal will help us do that.