Living in a country whose government started a genocidal war in a neighbour one and conscripted hundreds of thousands to become food for vultures in the fields, I have all reasons for strong and quite conscious, as opposed to "kneejerk", reactions against its initiatives.

Thinking that anyone in the world is safe from such atrocities where they live is bit shortsighted, to put it mildly, and the writing is already on the wall if you watch the state of the world affairs. Just imagine trying to avoid being dragged into a meatgrinder started by psychopaths when one's every move requires your ID. Yes, every, because being significantly faster makes for pervasively frequent instead of convenient.

I also envision that this checkpoint frequency will eventually reach the level when people are required to emit constant _streams_ of authentication tokens, which will of course imply it must be done remotely and without any manual consent. That's a perfect use case for the proverbial implanted RFID chips or continuous and ubiquitous biometric scanning, and rejecting that is the absolute hill to die on for people who have any remaining human dignity and love for freedom.