Last May,
Congress and Senate both approved the Real ID bill that establishes establishes a national ID card...The bill was snuck into a military appropriations bill to fund US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; there was no real debate and certainly no media coverage before the vote took place. It has gotten scant coverage since, though the possibility for loss of
civil liberties and great
abuse with this ID program is
very real, and the program is
unfunded and non-negotiable. Perhaps most frightening, the program will be under the watch of creepy torture-supporting and apparent
terrorist-shielding homeland security chief, Michael Chertoff! This is scary stuff.