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History for 'Pre-Test for Argument' Item: Pre-Test for Argument Score: (Calculated) Due: Submitted: Answers: 1. Read the following passage from “The Case for a National ID Card.” After repre... sentative John Dingell was asked to drop his pants at Washington's National Airport last week, some people felt safer. Others, like me, decided that we'd lost our collective minds. A near strip search of a 75-year-old Congressman whose artificial hip has set off a metal detector—while suspected al-Qaeda operative Richard Reid slips onto a Paris-to-Miami flight with a bomb in his shoe—isn't making us safer. It's making us ridiculous for entrusting our security to an unskilled police force that must make split-second decisions on the basis of incomplete data. Incidents like this—and airport waits longer than the flight itself—have pushed me into the camp of the national ID card. Yes, a tamperproof ID smacks of Big Brother and Nazis intoning “Your papers, please, ” but the Federal Government already holds a trove of data on each of us. And it's less likely to mess up or misuse it than the credit-card companies or the Internet fraudsters, who have just as much data if not more. (Two years ago, for a Time article, I ordered dinner for 30 entirely online, and I am still plagued by vendors who know I like my wine French and my ham honey-baked.) The idea of a national ID card leaped into the headlines just after Sept. 11. Oracle chairman Larry Ellison offered to donate the pertinent software. Ellison went to see Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was noncommittal despite his obvious enthusiasm for expanding government powers into other areas that trouble civil libertarians. Work Cited: Carlson, Margaret. “The Case for a National ID Card. ” TIME. 14 Jan. 2002. What claim does Margaret Carlson make in this passage? There should be better airport security. Sorry. That is incorrect. Though this is an arguable claim, it is not one made in the passage. The passage focuses on national ID cards in relation to airports and airplanes, not on airport security. For more help, see Introduction to Argument Language. Because of recent events in airports and airplanes, there should be a national ID card [Show More]

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