From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 24-Jun-14 09:55, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Monday, June 23, 2014 10:08:50 PM UTC-4, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >> That [EDLs] exist at all is a compromise. It was more of an attempt   
   >> by some in Congress to force adult Americans to carry universal   
   >> identification with them at all times, and to turn the driver's   
   >> license into such a document. They would have attempted to make it   
   >> mandatory.   
   >   
   > A frightening number of people still want a univeral secured ID card   
   > to be carried by everyone in the U.S., "in order to protect us".   
   > Seucrity folks tell us it's all necesasry.   
   >   
   > All of these 'enhanced' security measures cost the taxpayers and   
   > business people a fortune.  Are they really, really necessary to   
   > protect us?  Or, protect the newly growing security business?   
      
   There is no evidence at all that it protects us.  Requiring everyone to   
   have ID just changes the problem: it assumes that we already know the   
   identities of all the "bad" people, which is patently false.  For   
   instance, all of the 9/11 hijackers had valid ID cards.  In fact, one of   
   them even got his (expired) student visa extended _months after_ the   
   9/11 attacks!   
      
   > I can't help but wonder if the cure is worse than the disease.  How   
   > much does it cost the country to have people wait in endless lines at   
   > border crossings for TSA screenings?   
      
   Worse, it gives people a false sense of security, so we don't work on   
   the _real_ security problems.   
      
   > But if some politician does not approve suggested measures, next   
   > election his opponent will accuse him of being weak on security.   
      
   Plenty of politicians fought REAL ID--and won.   
      
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