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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/
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @06:48AM
It is a small step: first require that all _persons_ have a valid ID...later define those who fail to produce said ID on demand to be non-_persons_.
Nonpersons do not fare well if one's government devolves into oppressive tyranny, and there are signs that such devolution is imminent and unavoidable, and some would add "universally" to that phrase (c.f. China's "social credit" scoring, and the US immigration mess).
Personally, having held a passport for decades, I am not at all affected by the rule-change, nor am I often challenged to produce ID, but then I gave up air travel five years ago (for me, there is no destination worth the time, trouble and CO2-cost). I do, however, worry over the impending oppression, and wonder when they will come and who they will come for first and at what point good men will need to make a stand.
OTOH, any evangelical worth his salt will assure you that all this must happen before the Lord returns. Something to look forward to, I suppose.