Roger Long wrote:

I actually agree 100% that pilots should have photo ID's. It's taking it
out of the homeland security pot and calling it an anti-terrorist measure
that is silly. We should have had them years ago. It's for protection of
our aircraft and avionics, not the homeland.

I guess if some terrorist steals an airplane and flies it on a suicide mission
we can arrest him for not having a picture ID....

Here's another scenario that makes the picture ID seem REALLY worthless::

Some foreigner comes here on a mission (his own mission from "allah"), gets
a legit Visa, is fully checked out, plays by all the rules, goes to flight school,
gets his license with a nice little picture on it. Waits patiently and follows
all the rules then after he has his nice pictureID pilot license goes on his
terror flight with a rented airplane.

But... he had a valid picture ID! I don't know about you but I feel safer...