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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 11:48 am
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Originally Posted by secretbunnyboy
I have no idea whether they have ID cards in Afghanistan or not.
Afghanistan has no mandatory national ID card/papers.

Some in the Taliban wanted a "national" ID, but they were against photographs and so came to love fingerprints. [However, most Afghans would not comply.] If they would have had the means, who knows if they would have skipped straight to implanted RFIDs (or the like).

And in present-day Europe, those places that require ID be carried have the police use such rules as a basis to harass co-citizens who are ethnic minorities. And since the police have a "right" to demand ID, they use that to harass minorities. (If the citizens were members of the dominant ethnic majorities, they'd rarely get asked by the police for such.)

I prefer no ID requirements for domestic travel within a Union, including within the Union that is the United States.
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