Kiss it goodbye...

When it's tacked onto a big $$$$ bill, nobody pays attention...well, almost nobody. This one stands my hair on end:

===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata ===== SFGate.com - Wednesday, May 18, 2005
They Really Are Watching YouReady for your own all-new, sinister ID card, courtesy of Homeland Security? ShudderBy Mark Morford
Well, now we've done it.
Congress just passed it and Dubya has promised to sign it and the Homeland Security Department is giddier than Mel Gibson in a nail factory over it and marketers nationwide are salivating at the groin at the prospect of it, and the next big step toward America becoming an even more delightfully paranoid and draconian Big Brother wonderland has now officially been taken.
It's called Real ID. It is, in short, a new and genetically mutated type of driver's license for all Americans, replacing your current license and replacing your Social Security card and replacing your sense of well being and privacy and humanity and part of a new, uniform, deeply sinister, national uniform card system whereby every person living and breathing in these paranoid and tense times shall henceforth be much more traceable and watchable given how we will all soon be required by law to carry this super-deluxe computerized ID card with us at all times, packed as it will be with more personal, digitized info about you than even your mother knows. ...
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