From: drose@AZStarNet.com
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 17:10:12 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Internal Passports
Message-ID: <199612300109.SAA13864@web.azstarnet.com>
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Bob Hettinga wrote:

>At 6:20 pm -0500 12/29/96, Timothy C. May wrote:
>>What I think this means is a move toward a national ID card, replacing the
>>confusing (to airlines, to government agents, etc.) mishmash of state
>>driver's licenses, student ID cards, etc.
>
>"I've found that they issue a national ID card, it's time to leave..."
>           Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love", by Robert A. Heinlein

"After Austria and Germany, Switzerland is my favourite country. I have
spent the past 40 winters and 10 summers there. I love the place because
it's clean, beautiful, very conservative and its people mind their own
business."
             Taki, in today's _Sunday Times_(London).