[118544] in Cypherpunks
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcel Popescu)
Fri Oct 1 15:08:22 1999
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:44:19 -0400
Message-Id: <001101bf0c41$f94c54c0$0200a8c0@marcu>
From: "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu@geocities.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <cypherpunks@openpgp.net>
Reply-To: "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu@geocities.com>
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From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
> In Belgium, a national ID exists already for decades.
> You are obliged to have it on you wherever you go and you have to show it
whenever a policeman asks you.
> Opening a bank account without id, not bloody likely. Banks ask you for
your ID every time you come in.
> Even (some) prescription drugs will not be given unless you show your ID
(the number is then written on the prescription).
> Need your ID to get a job? Not only that, but once you got a job you get a
'workpermit' that you have to carry whenever you are working.
> Things don't seem that bad in the US of A.
Yep, same thing here in Romania. You can't even book into a hotel without
carrying the ID. You can't get married. You can't start your own company. In
fact, while we're not yet at "can't buy or sell" point, there's not much
left.
Mark
