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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , AV3   
    wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   If the any government wanted to confine driver's licenses to use purely   
   for purposes of driving, then they'd make it the key that starts the   
   car. Make it extremely difficult to duplicate and unusable by anyone   
   else and you'd also get rid of unlicensed and banned drivers. Include a   
   breathaliser in it and you'd get rid of drunk / drugged drivers.  :-)   
      
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