WILL D E Margrett (Letters, Saturday, January 22) please explain how ID cards will protect us?

When we are in danger of a mugging, should we draw the card and wave it at the robbers? Will this deter them? I think not.

On a more serious note, I wonder if all those who lost their lives either to gain freedom, or protect it, would have agreed with his statement that freedom is not worth one human life. I rather doubt it.

A G E COOMBS, Worcester.