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Originally posted by Bitman
Indeed, a forged national ID will be FAR more powerful than forged IDs today, and it's likely you'll have a much harder time clearing your name. Today, identity theft leads to ruined credit history, but national ID theft will put you in jail.
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How does a national ID give you any protection?

1) That question of protection was answered, with example, in the previous thread "A National ID Card".

2) ID theft causing the victim to be arrested - again cited in that previous thread.

3) ID theft is not a crime in most states. As one cop specifically noted, you could not even file a civil suit against someone for stealing your idenity and destroying your credit rating in PA because a destroyed credit rating, according to PA courts, did not constitute a proven loss. A law was recently proposed in PA to amend that problem. I don't know if it had passed. It was a law unique in the nation. ID theft is not a crime in most of the US.

4) The post implies that the author thinks of ID verification in terms of a paper license. Again, how ID verification and protection works was defined in that other thread.