On that note I would offer that a true ID is far more valuable and useful to the private sector than it is to the government.
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I hope you didn't think President Ike was farting out both ends in his farwell speech when he warned soberly to beware the military/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
Who do you think is gobbling up all the tax monies, windfall profits, . . . and some say the illegal drug monies to boot.
Oh yes, our military and our industry is the problem......FFS!
Tony Blair said it best when he said something along these lines when referring to Abu Graib. It is impossible to be perfect. Some people will do bad things and that is unstoppable. The measure of a nation ( or a persons) worth is not in the lack of perfection in avoiding such things, it is measured by what is done about it when it eventually does happen.
Applied to this context, it is not the ID that people are so against, even though they pose it that way. It is the abuses they are against. I stand with those folks as to abuse but I differ with you and them on this point. ID abuse is happening today. It can be dealt with far better than it is today with a far more accurate form of ID replacing the redundant ID's we have today that are easy to forge.
Lack fo perfection is not failure. Lack of doing possible things to make the situation better IS!
Saying that possible 'what if" abuses could happen as the reason to oppose is fine if all you seek to offer is opposition. To qualify that opposition as valid one must offer an alternative along side that opposition. Without doing so, folks might just as well join the democratic party because that is the politics they practice....opposition without alternative solution hinging on the worst case "what if's" while ignoring the tangible benefits of that which they oppose.