Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Re: eID-belgium

[Richard Stallman]

This quote may be useful:

>From Born in Tibet by Chögyam Trungpa, foreword by Marco Pallis

It is not only such obvious means of intimidation as machine guns and
concentration camps that count; such a petty product of the printing
press as an identity card, by making it easy for the authorities to
keep constant watch on everybody's movements, represents in the long
run a more effective curb on liberty.  In Tibet, for instance, the
introduction of such a system by the Chinese Communists, following the
abortive rising of 1959,and its application to food rationing has been
one of the principal means of keeping the whole population in
subjection and compelling them to do the work decreed by their foreign
overlords.