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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
Tom, sometimes we're so in sync while at other times...
...I come across horror stories like the following:
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A California woman lost her job, was forced into drug treatment, and lost custody of her children for three months after her newborn baby tested positive for the prescription drug Seconal, even though a doctor had provided the woman with the drug when she was in labor.
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Which only proves we must be rid of all laws and government attempt to protect newborn.
The example demonstrates what happens when doctors fail to perform their jobs (Did the doctor suffer equal punishment? Doctors are rarely punished or lose their license)
Cited is one example of a doctor who caused good laws to be misapplied. Therefore we should get rid of all US Customs and passports because they too can be applied wrongly? The fear of a national ID confirmation system is equivalent to saying that all driver licenses must be eliminated because they to would be used improperly.
The reason you don't fear a driver's license - it already exists. Your fear of a national ID confirmation system - it does not exist. The facts are not the reason - it is a fear of the unknown that you fear.
Unfortunately that is common. Hundreds of people had to be murdered in the Johnstown Flood before we finally stopped fearing dam inspections.
Such blanket fears are the same reason so many also use ineffective, overpriced, overhyped, money wasting surge protectors. We assumed something is better than nothing rather than examine the details. We make blanket assumptions rather than examine the details.
DMV already have everyones picture. Government already has all information necessary to subvert the system. But the same information is not available to assist a reader to protect his own identity.
Identify theft is widespread and quite destructive. The Orange county woman's problem is rare, was easily corrected, and did not punish her years afterwards. IOW perspective is also important. The Orange County women's example only proves that all government is evil - not that we individually need protection. Furthermore fear of a national ID confirmation system is totally flawed since the government already has all that information.
[Edited by tw on 05-15-2001 at 07:03 PM]