The United States Government should require a national photo identity card for all residents.

Hey, I've been challenged again! Good luck to you too! :-D 1.The National Identity cards could and will be stolen. There is no sense in making a system that will just as easily be broken as system that are broken now. No system is impossible to break. Leading experts point out that as more and more smart cards are put into operation, more and more people know how to break them. CATO Institute stated on there website, cato.org, accessed on May, 8, 2008 QUOTE "The new fake IDs may not exactly match state- issued ones, but they're often good enough to fool bartenders, nightclub doormen, and sometimes even police officers." END QUOTE The fact that teenagers are able to so easily forge new identties merely in attempt to get into a nightclub, makes you think what individuals with truly malevolent intentions could do. 2.ID cards could cause new forms of discrimination and harassment. There are already problems in the world now with discrimination and racism. Now police officers and anyone (who could be a criminal) could get all of a person's information at once. These criminals will know things that they shouldn't and they may use these things against these people through speech, harrassment, or even violence. 3. National Identity cards could be stolen or forged. When people lose their cards, it is almost a guarantee that someone else will find it. There is no telling what could be done with it from that point on. Other people will have another person's identity at their fingertips. Does this sound safe to you? 4.National ID cards would create a false sense of security and divert valuable resources from other more effective counterterrorism efforts. The amount of money and time spent on these indentification cards would not prevent terrorism but in turn, make it worse. By wasting our money on these identity cards, terrorists will be able to get into our country easier through our unguarded borders, obtain and identity cards themselves, and many other things. In general, people will not be protected by the national identification system. Also, national identification systems offer no protection against terrorists who have no record of prior misconduct. 5.National ID proposals ask Americans to trust that they would make life easier rather than weaken the freedoms we take for granted. The CATO Insititute stated at cato.org, accessed on May 8, 2008 QUOTE "If Americans are concerned about the recent proliferation of traffic surveillance cameras on roadways and sidewalks, then they ain't seen nothing yet" END QUOTE. Public support would also be much weaker if the people in the United States knew that it would not be effective. 6.Prices for making the cards, making them secure, replacing lost cards, and creating the system to hold all the information would be way to much money. A database that contains all of this information would be almost impossible to afford. Cole from the Eagle Forum stated on infoworld.com accessed on March12, 2008 QUOTE "It would require a national database of this information, not only on each and every citizen but also on every person coming into the country as well. I think that is far beyond what we can afford." END QUOTE. Thanks for listening!! :-D