at recent history in the past 50 years, in particular World War II identity cards [objectlessons.org] During World War II the government kept a central register of everyone in Britain. Names, date of birth and address were listed in this national register. It held the information needed for issuing national identity cards and food and clothing ration books, and for identifying children eligible for evacuation and adults eligible for call-up into the armed forces....The police, army and Home Guard checked identity cards fo

Except, again, the 9/11 terrorists had VALID, LEGAL IDs; they weren't fraudulent, they didn't lie about who they were. The 9/11 terrorists were here on perfectly valid visas, and all their IDs were obtained through perfectly legal means; which means, even if the "Real ID" systemVain: Michaela Hutchings spent £52,000 Litchfield Council put in her account by mistake, instead of reporting the error

A young woman went on a marathon shopping spree hours after a bungling council accidentally credited her bank account with £52,000, a court heard yesterday.

Michaela Hutchings, 23, spent £9,000 on expensive designer clothes, sunglasses and other items after finding the money in her account.

Instead of reporting the error, she also gave her mother Elaine £1,000 in cash, before she was caught by police on April 24 last year.

After she was caught, officers
discovered she had transferred £40,000 into an investment account after
taking advice from her bank, which was unaware of the mistake.

The
mother of one was found guilty of dishonesty and retaining a wrongly
credited bank transfer when she appeared at Stafford Crown Court