I'm not sure if you're misreading this or not ... he's talking about the "Papiere, bitte" style of ID card that's used by Police to check on people walking down the street.
Don't they already do that if you end up in a traffic stop for example? Except it becomes a hassle for you if you don't have an official ID.
We have a national passport in Germany and you don't randomly get checked by police. In fact you don't even have to have your passport on you. You just have to have one, e.g. at home.
Passports certainly have downsides but given the clusterfuck that is the US voting system they pale in comparison to compromising the whole country IMHO.
I'm not sure if you're misreading this or not ... he's talking about the "Papiere, bitte" style of ID card that's used by Police to check on people walking down the street.
Don't they already do that if you end up in a traffic stop for example? Except it becomes a hassle for you if you don't have an official ID.
We have a national passport in Germany and you don't randomly get checked by police. In fact you don't even have to have your passport on you. You just have to have one, e.g. at home.
Passports certainly have downsides but given the clusterfuck that is the US voting system they pale in comparison to compromising the whole country IMHO.
If you're in a traffic stop you'll generally have a driving license, and by law I think you have seven days to produce that.
If you're not driving there is no requirement for a British citizen to carry around ID with them. There didn't used to be, anyway.