[65021] in Cypherpunks
Re: IDC_ard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (snow)
Mon Sep 9 13:56:19 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:48:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199609071146.LAA06846@pipe1.t1.usa.pipeline.com>
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, John Young wrote:
> 9-8-96. NYP Mag:
> "The True Terror Is In the Card."
> Faced with rising crime, illegal immigration, welfare
> fraud and absentee parents, many bureaucrats and members
> of Congress insist that the nation would run more
> smoothly if we all had counterfeit-proof plastic
> identity cards.
> Let's be clear that this is a one-way street. Once
> having established a requirement to carry photo ID, it
> will be difficult if not impossible to reverse.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "impossible". It also should be
relatively easy to get a couple of these.
Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com
