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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 06 2019, @03:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the papers-please dept.

The deadline of yet another, and perhaps the most insidious, element of the post-9/11 initiatives (a partial list of which includes the establishment of the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and a never-ending international war against a nebulously-defined, noncorporeal enemy, "terror") is less than one year from coming to fruition. Beginning no later than October 1, 2020, citizens of all US states and territories will be required to have a Real ID compliant card or US passport to board a commercial plane or enter a Federal government facility. Pundits citing the inevitability of what amounts to a national ID card have, regrettably, been vindicated.

https://www.aier.org/article/while-you-slept-government-created-internal-passports/


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 06 2019, @04:49AM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday November 06 2019, @04:49AM (#916712) Homepage Journal

    Yeah, that ain't something that happens here in the states. We're so big on being pissed off that it's our primary export.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @04:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @04:56AM (#916714)

    This is post-9/11 America. You're not allowed to be angry. Your beliefs are so badly out of date, you're going to the mental ward.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 06 2019, @05:07AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 06 2019, @05:07AM (#916717) Journal

    Yeah, that ain't something that happens here in the states. We're so big on being pissed off that it's our primary export.

    Huh. Like it matters! Being pissed off and doing nothing about it as as inconsequential as not being pissed off.

    Note: I'm not saying that you need to or, indeed, you can do something different of being pissed off.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 07 2019, @11:29PM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 07 2019, @11:29PM (#917627) Homepage Journal

      Everyone needs a hobby.

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 07 2019, @11:32PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 07 2019, @11:32PM (#917631) Journal

        When the hobby is a habit of an entire population, it's no longer a hobby, it's tradition.

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