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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) by zion-fueled on Thursday November 07 2019, @01:05AM (1 child)
Its not dissonance, just self serving.
Voter ID = bad. poor people are too stupid to get IDs, its not like they need them to do everything else in life. DISCRIMINATION! /s
National ID/Papers please = good. How dare you travel without identifying yourself. If you're poor, nobody is stopping you from walking.
What's the common theme here? Voter ID hurts the authoritarians while keeping the proles in line with via "REAL" id is just part of the agenda. Public and private positions, they don't really believe either of these arguments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 09 2019, @09:05PM
You realize that both parties are authoritarian and support Realid, right?