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If Cornelia Rau had given her real name rather than deciding to give a fake one ("for my own reasons" she said at the news conference) then she would have been released. An ID card is irrelevant unless she has it and decides to hand it over.
Andrew Smith
Brisbane
But what a tue ID card does is photograpgh and fingerprint every holder, extend this to all visitors and crime would plummet (not sure about terrorists though). If you look at countries where these types of cards exist like Singapore and other Asian countries the serious crime rate is very low considering the population size. Replace the drivers licence (enhance it) and id cards with a single card. Food for thought then again the usual conspiracy arguements always arise.
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that's right johnnie...
id cards would have stopped the london bombers from hopping on the underground with their packages...
and cornelia rau had no ID card, so if she had one she would not have been locked away...
yeah, right...