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	In the aftermath of 11 September, we have to be careful not to do stupid things. Sometimes when people are anxious to "do something" they will allow themselves to be lulled into the belief that "anything" will help. That is simply not true. One of the things being proposed (again) is a national id card. What possible help could this be? What will it be used for? In the first place it won't be good for anything unless somebody is looking at it. Since airlines are not the only targets of terrorists, we're talking about checkpoints, right? "Your papers, please." How far would that be from ID checks for state-to-state travel? And questions about where we're going and why. Another thing is that driver's licenses are faked all the time. How would we make our "papers" forgery resistant? There are complicated ways of doing that, but they're expensive. And we're talking about 270 million of them … that will have to be renewed periodically … at some cost to the holder we must presume. And what would it accomplish? … Except make us just a little less free.

Mike