That's to see if you are drunk. There are also bouncers in bars to make sure you are 21 as well as security guards in buildings to make sure you work there.
What's your point?
I find this thread amusing in that no one here wants to have a national ID card system installed yet when the ACLU complains about peoples civil rights being violated you are all up in arms about the Socialists.
Spare me the sanctimonious BS. Admit it, the issue here is not that you do not want the system. The issue here is you do not want the system in the Democrats hands so that they can then implement their Marxist/Gestapo utopian society.
Hey, I totally agree here. However without a form of control we open ourselves up to further attacks. I for one, have no trouble carrying a national ID card. I just don't want it coded with information that violates my civil rights. I do not think it is important which religion I practice, what my medical records may say or for that matter what I do for a living.
However, the card does need to be counterfeit proof. That's all I need.