My point was the road to public acceptance of any Govt-approved identity plan/policy
will be steep.  Plans to create positive momentum requires dealing with this reality.

Re: your question: Specific policies regulating commerce/ownership of dangerous substances/activities is context dependent.
Can we first agree on what the colored lights mean, and what side of the road we all should drive on? (Right on Red except sometimes in Boston ;-).

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Tony Rutkowski <trutkowski@netmagic.com> wrote:
On 1/12/2011 11:29 AM, Charles Andres wrote:
However, John Poindexter, the NSA, the CIA, the Patriot Act, RealID,
etc. (to name a few) have "poisoned the well" of trust with previous
attempts to build centralized digital information systems to allow the
government to know more about citizens than citizens know about the
government.

The dialogue seems to have answered the
question posed - the propensity to vilify
public officials and institutions with
different views on this subject as apostates
has not changed.  Perhaps no surprise.

Would you oppose identity checks or tracking
of those who purchase extended clips for Glocks
or does this also abridge perceived rights?

--tony