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From: tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS@yahoo.com
On 2014-03-01, AV3 wrote:
> 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.
Americans want freedom in name only. They accept all the pieces of
tyrannies if they are just renamed and have the right excuses.
But there is a bit of a way around things. A passport works for most
internal purposes and contains less information. At least the printed
portion does, not sure what's in the RFID part.
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