jya@pipeline.com (John Young) forwarded:

9-8-96. NYP Mag:

"The True Terror Is In the Card."

Faced with rising crime, illegal immigration, welfare fraud and absentee parents, many bureaucrats and members of Congress insist that the nation would run more smoothly if we all had counterfeit-proof plastic identity cards.

http://jya.com/idcard.txt (11 kb)

And to get all the Christian Right (no pun intended) up in arms, just suggest that the best way to prevent theft of these ID cards would be to place the information on a microchip and implant it in your body. Forehead and right wrist preferably. James