Document fraud is always going to continue as long as belief in the privacy and rights of the individual. Document verification does not necessarily make our government more secure. While some of the 9\/11 terrorists had expired Visas – others had perfectly valid non forged ones. If we track back history to the last major terrorist attack before that Oklahoma City bombing – that was done by an American which I suppose had valid accurate documents. …”<\/span><\/p>\nAs you can see by the verbiage I used and the fact that I didn’t pay extreme attention at first I had mistakenly thought the person that sent the link was the author. He was not and told me he couldn’t speak to the points contained within the paper. Fair enough.<\/p>\n
I stated most of my points in my above email excerpt, however, one thing started nagging at me later (the same nagging that urged me to write this post. The author fails to take into consideration (or glazes over the fact in his paper) the inherent insecurity during the migration period. While border guards, guards at federal government facilities, and TSA representatives can be well-trained ramping up to launch new identification, the populace at large would not have the same training.<\/p>\n
Because the population at large would be vaguely aware of a new system but not sure of the details of what to look for this opens up a window of opportunity for larger fraud to happen than what dictates under the current system. I remember businesses having issues accepting the 20.00 bill when it was redesigned since many people thought it felt like play money and looked phony. While they usually (reluctantly) accepted it, I’m sure there was a good opportunity for counterfeiters during the weeks\/months that followed.<\/p>\n
Now if you notice above I mentioned federal agents, and local police are normally no better at detecting these things. If they called it in they may get confirmation, but some police departments are lax and don’t follow a unified procedure. For an example of this idiocy please track down Steve Wozniak’s stories about having issues with the police saying his 2.00 bills were phony when a store manager who didn’t believe 2.00 bills existed asked the officer that came into the store.<\/p>\n
I’m not saying we should stay the course during all of this and some states should have a stronger anti-tampering mechanism. The realID issue trying to get into fruition is one attempt at the federal level to do this. I don’t believe in the realID system since it erodes our personal liberties so I don’t think there should ever be a central authority. I could go on and rail about the realID system – but you should search “ron paul realID” and hear that man’s thoughts on the issue.<\/p>\n
Finally the cost of this reimplementation of identification papers. This is something completely not absent in the document. If you look at the numbers implementing the realID system you can see the absolute cost that this will cost you for very little security in return.<\/p>\n
“The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.<\/span> “<\/span>
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