You know I think a lot of this is about choice. I don't mind having my blood type on a card, along with the information that I'm allergic to penicillin, and that I'm an organ donor. I don't mind that it states my height, weight, date of birth, and even has a lousy picture of me on it. But I still want this to be my choice. I do not like the fact that it has my address, for example, unless I agree to this, because if I don't have an address, as is the case with many homeless people, I am automatically denied a whole slew of options offered to those who do. It really is about what can be denied because of them, rather than for any other reason. That combined with the idea of something being mandatory to the point where if you don't have it on your person, you can be fined a huge amount, is just not my idea of living in a free society. It's knuckling under to the climate of fear which is being used to manipulate us to thinking that this will in any way whatsoever curb international terrorism. It won't.
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