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While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports

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

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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/

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  • (Score: 2) by jasassin on Wednesday November 06 2019, @09:28PM (1 child)

    by jasassin (3566) <jasassin@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 06 2019, @09:28PM (#917003) Homepage Journal

    More to the point, everybody who has been to college knows the market for fake driver's licenses, to get alcohol among other things. They also know how easy it has historically been to make.

    I was talking to a lady in the gas station and she asked for my I'D for some beer. She scanned the back of it and it made me curious. We talked some more (for some reason people find me the kind of person they can open up to) and she told me her niece had a fake I'D and her niece came in to the gas station and she scanned the back of the fake I'D and it passed verification.

    Just an FYI.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @11:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 06 2019, @11:40PM (#917039)

    The barcode on the back just passes DOB info IIRC - it should be plenty easy to counterfeit.