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Originally Posted by Capt Bluesman
First, it's not a new identity card. It's a driver's license, just like the driver's license you currently have, only with standardized security features, some of which your current license may already have. It will replace your current one, not be held in addition.
Second, states don't have to start issuing these until 2011, not May, and third, you're not being forced to get one at all, ever, if you don't want one.
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However, the newscast said that if you did not have one, you would not be allowed to board an airplane.
As for another poster saying that one of the 9/11 pilots had 4 driver's licenses is true. That's not hard to do. All his "country" has to do is "issue" him several different passports/visas with different names so cross-checking licenses is null and void.
On one trip I had to Europe, I had two passports. One the red jacketed government official passport for the job I was to do for the Navy and one blue jacketed private passport for vacationing afterwards in countries that would not accept the government passport. And they were both legal.
It's a waste of time, a waste of money and an invasion of privacy that won't do whit on stopping international terrorists/spies, etc. from getting any kind of ID card they want.
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Okay, again, nothing different from the state of affairs now. You already need a government issued picture ID of some sort to board an airplane. When we read for comprehension, we see that you will NOT need this particular ID to board an airplane, only that if you choose to use a driver's license for identification, this will the be the one you must use. You can still use another form of ID, such as a passport, to board a plane. And, as
Silent Hunter notes, if you are so incensed by the whole thing, you could always take the train, or the bus.
The whole 4 licenses thing? This is what this program is attempting to prevent, partly by archiving photos. Would you prefer the goverment take the attitude that you have, that "Oh well, nothing can be done, no sense trying."
I'm not sure what the fact that you had two passports has to do with anything. I'm assuming they were both in your name. I have two myself, and they both have my correct information on them.
And no, it's not any more an invasion of privacy than the system that exists now. Not that I think it will do any good, but I'll repeat myself. ALL the information you currently submit to obtain a driver's license is PUBLIC, and can be obtained without much effort by anyone who chooses to.