[NittanyLion]

I think what we have to be very much on our guard for in any national ID card legislation is not so much the ID card itself as what is it to be used for. Under what circumstances would the authorities be entitled to request to see such ID? The perameters of when you would have to show it would have to be very strictly defined in the legislation itself. Ideally, a person who lives in the way Geaux' friend does would never, or very rarely, have to show his ID.

SSN's were never to be used for identification, either. Once the mechanism is in place the government will always find a reason to stretch it beyond its original use - and statutory requirements seldom seem to matter.

If you don't see the constitutional dangers in this, ask yourself whether you'd want yet another massive government bureaucracy. Administering a NID card would require one - with all its inefficient, lazy, unfirable workers. Think IRS 2.

[Jethro Tull]

#13)

national id card gains support

From today's Washington Post.

I've been long w/VISG, a facial ID company.

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