Originally Posted by law dawg
As far as airline travel goes, the number one concern of any country security-wise is its airspace, followed by marine waterways and lastly their land border. If 9/11 demonstrated nothing else it showed that civilian aviation can have a monumental impact upon the economy, infrastructure, and indeed the very survival of a country (many countries would not have survived such an attack).
None of which are made the slightest bit more secure by checking IDs. Again,
from the website's section on ID :
Showing ID only affects honest people.* If you're dishonest, you can obtain false documents or steal the identity of an honest person.
If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink, why couldn't a bad person get one, too?* And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID, wouldn't a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too?* The answer to both questions is obviously 'yes'.