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   From: arvimide@earthlink.net   
      
   On Feb/28/2014 5:0953 PM, nospam wrote:   
   > In article<280220141427420841%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> ...   
   >   
   > that's just fucked up.   
   >   
   >> (Convicted sex offenders have to renew annually; I read that when I was   
   >> reading about the renewal periods.)   
   >   
   > is there a correlation between sex offenders and bad driving?   
   >   
   > is that somehow supposed to prevent future sex crimes?   
   >   
   > if they want to track the person's location, there are more effective   
   > ways.   
      
      
   In fact the driver's license is an identity card, containing the   
   holder's birth date, address, head shot, and other generally useful   
   information. There has always been great resistance to issuing an   
   internal passport/identity card in the U. S., because it is regarded as   
   the control instrument of a police state, as Soviet Russia used its   
   internal passports to rigidly control the movement and activities of its   
   citizens. So the driver's license serves the purpose, and New York State   
   issues an identity card on demand to non-drivers.   
      
      
   If the U. S. wanted to confine driver's licenses to use purely for   
   purposes of driving, and social security cards purely for collecting   
   pension benefits, there would have to be an internal passport, which   
   would beaurocratically duplicate the information already in most   
   people's pockets.   
      
      
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