More on the Big Brother REAL ID Act (which is now law)

[groovychk]

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060113-5974.html

Thanks Sensenbrenner, the rest of Congress and Bush. You guys can't go away soon enough.

Comments

[cocle.livejournal.com]

I’m all for keeping illegal aliens from getting identification in this country, but I don’t like the idea of a national database with information on every American citizen.

I find it strange that this became law considering that the administration doesn’t care if your job is shipped overseas, and they really don’t care that you have to compete for the jobs that are left in this country with illegal aliens. The number of workplace arrests for illegal aliens went down from 2,849 in 1999 to 445 in 2003.

I would like to thank the administration for selling out the American worker and making it possible for most of us to eventually only find employment working at Wal-Mart.

[xaminmo.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, it's still a few years off before we have to pledge allegiance to the emperor and the fatherland.

[groovychk.livejournal.com]

Easy enough to let the states manage the IDs. Just need to make proper laws about it - definitely not a National ID and database.

Missouri Already in Compliance Since July

[cocle.livejournal.com]

My license doesn't expire till 2008 at least.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Story (http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/neighborhoods/stories.nsf/news/story/58669618CC5317D4862570F800799207?OpenDocument)