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Thursday, September 17, 2009

ID Cards - A Historical View


The Napoleonic identity card was the main ancestor of all modern ID systems. Its main purpose was to hold down wages, by stopping workers moving around to find better jobs and higher wages.

Napoleon transformed the free society of the French Republic into the Empire, a tightly controlled police state.

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