Who will accept ID cards?

[Adrian Midgley]

ken wrote:

> Also it does me no good, as someone trying to check whether someone is
> entitled to some service I provide, if I can't also look at the database
> entries and use the biometrics for verification.  I will still want to
> issue my own passes or cards or PINs or other tokens.

To whom?

Once you decide you have the right person to let in, why shold they be
troubled by having an additional piece of junk to carry?


Assuming ...


But I suspect the successful national ID card would be no less easy to
forge than any token you chose to use, or else it is very nearly no good
at all to the State.


I think once one turns around and looks at it from the standpoint of
providing a service to the citizen in order to make their life easier,
which I am presuambly not the first person to ever do (?) it becomes
clear that a return for the cost whether by general taxation or direct
extraction of the ID card should be that it is the only ID card needed.


Now work around that!  Is the instruction that the State should issue on
behalf of its citizens, for far too long irritated by the petty
multiplication of crappy tokens and forms to fill in to get said crappy
tokens, to anyone who wishes to identify citizens.


Once upon a time the State arrogated the privilege of settling arguments
with violence to itself, later it acquired and exercised the monopoly
over the Royal Mail, and now it is not ridiculous that it should assert
that within its boundaries it and it alone shall provide identity
services.


I like to see consistency in arguments, so the last dozen years have
been a thin time in this State.


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