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*  C-SPAN Congressional Television: outside coming down the Senate building's
*  steps, Senator Biden with Senator Simpson in tow proclaims: "What's wrong
*  with a National ID Card? It's the same tired old arguments against it."

As if sane people shouldn't be paranoid about a National ID Card.

*   "New Rules Mean Job-Hunters Need Proof of Identity", The New York Times
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*   Passports, driver's licenses, Social Security cards or birth certificates
*   will be allowed to serve as identity papers.
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*   A 1982 proposal to catch illegal aliens by giving American workers
*   "counterfeit-proof" identity cards was hooted off the boards as a
*   threat to individual liberty.

How bad would a National ID Card be?

Bad.  Real bad.

You would be required to carry it at all times.

It's all about surveillance and control.

This section is about the National ID Card, plus deployment of a
mix of surveillance and control techniques for tracking people.


In California a few years back the police kept hassling a black man who liked
to walk around at night to think. Unfortunately, he wasn't white, but liked
to walk around white neighborhoods. [Anyone with detailed info email me.]

He didn't carry id with him: the police arrested him on suspicion of being
a burglar or somesuch. The California Supreme Court threw out the arrest.
Not carrying ID was a primary part of the police complaint.

It is impossible for