1994-07-14 - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Message Hash: b7ae825d77a2b4e190cf317ffa97a0ec943b8583e8d77ee747e24a2fa1534ab7
Message ID: <9407142100.AA20683@snark.imsi.com>
Reply To: <199407142033.NAA01489@netcom3.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-07-14 21:03:58 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 14:03:58 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 14:03:58 PDT
To: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
Subject: Re: National ID cards are just the driver's licenses on the Information
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Timothy C. May says:
> > "You can buy heroin in maximum security prisons."  Controls don't
> > always work.
> 
> Well, of course. But this doesn't make the prospects of "internal
> passports" (as I think it was you who dubbed them...or maybe Sandy)
> any less likely, or any less worthy of fighting.

The following is worth mentioning: market forces will eventually
destroy virtually all controls. However, as the Soviet Union showed,
millions of people can be made miserable or killed in the meanwhile.
The mere fact that internal passports (what the ID cards are, really
-- another friend of mine called them that the minute he heard of
them) would not stop everyone doesn't mean that they couldn't make
almost everyone's life miserable.

Perry

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• 1994-07-14 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 13:08:33 PDT) - Re: ID card from hell - frissell@panix.com (Duncan Frissell)
  • 1994-07-14 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 13:33:34 PDT) - National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
    • 1994-07-14 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 14:03:58 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
      • 1994-07-14 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 15:27:01 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information - sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
        • 1994-07-15 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 19:42:46 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information - Dave Banisar <tc@phantom.com>
      • 1994-07-15 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 19:17:18 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses… - tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
        • 1994-07-15 (Fri, 15 Jul 94 08:42:03 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses… - Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
    • 1994-07-14 (Thu, 14 Jul 94 14:57:18 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information - Berzerk <berzerk@xmission.xmission.com>
    • 1994-07-15 (Fri, 15 Jul 94 07:44:58 PDT) - Re: National ID cards are just the driver’s licenses on the Information - Linn Stanton <lstanton@sten.lehman.com>