Reply #13: Actually there are many countries that require citizens to carry papers

[MadHound]

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_identity_card_policies_by_country>

Are these countries "a little like Nazi Germany?"

Look, I don't like this law any more than anybody else, my beef is using the term Nazi where it is really not applicable, where it simply becomes overinflated hyperbole and actually cheapens what the victims of the Nazi regime had to suffer.