The idea of having to be incumbered by a wallet at all times or of being randomly or arbitarily asked for proof of identification scares me much more than the thought of a terrorist bomb.

Well Genie...many of us who live in mainland Europe HAVE to have an ID and carry it and I don't think our civil liberties have suffered as a result...certainly mine haven't. And having grown up in a city at a time when passing any postbox, being in any public building, opening numerous packages as a government employee and having personally seen the aftermath of a terrorist bomb...the Hyde Park military band bombing...the thought of a terrorist bomb does at least disturb me more than the idea of a national ID.

Respectfully,

mooman