In high school I went through a Wold War II period, reading every novel and history on the war that I could find, from Ernie Pyle to Norman Mailer. One genre involved true life escapes or attempted escapes from German prisoner-of-war camps. Those stories generally featured an inmate who was an expert forger. It was the forger’s job to provide the escapees with the identification papers people were required to carry in Nazi Germany or the areas under its control.
I thought then how terrible it would be to live in a country where the police could demand your identity papers at any time.
How much do you want to bed that no caucasian who is stopped for a violation will ever be asked to show their identity papers in Arizona?
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