"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

An Internal Passport By Any Name

Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano wants to replace rename the Real ID national ID card with something called Pass ID.

Meanwhile, five senators try to revive the Real ID idea uner another name

At the Amnerican Conservative blog Daniuel McCarthy writes:



This is typical of how liberties get chipped away: when the public in the states rallies against assaults on privacy, the security apparatus in D.C. switches tracks to implement its wish-list piecemeal. We’ll see whether the feds succeed in undercutting the grassroots revolt in the states.

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