“We don’t need a national identity card. I lived in Greece in the 1970s during a dictatorship. Every Greek had a national identity card. It was required for everything from enrolling in college to cashing a check or boarding a bus. A plainclothes secret-police agent would approach a group of university students, quietly ask for their I.D. cards and tell them to go the next morning to the secret-police headquarters to retrieve them. Because the card was needed for every aspect of life, they had to obey. They entered the secret-police headquarters the next morning and were never seen again. A national identity card gives the government too much control over individual citizens. It is a terrible idea.” – Sylvia Boecker