From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 06:37:29 +0800
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: IDC_ard
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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