Well, the era of Big Brother has finally arrived. When the Republican congress was in power, you know, those bozos who still claim to be conservative, they passed the Real ID Act on behalf of Bush.
Now, as the act gets closer, the ramifications are emerging. You will be required to show your papers whenever asked. You will need your papers to get into a park, a government building, to take a domestic flight. Police and other officials will be able to hold you for "paper inspection." I wonder if, as in Casablanca, they will shoot you dead if you run.
Several states have been standing up against these onerous federal mandates. They and their citizens will be punished and restricted as to where they can go. This is the ultimate exercise of federal power that has ever existed. I have said it before and I will say it again: the Confederacy was right: too much federal government becomes evil and corrupt.
What have our Democratic "defenders" in Congress done to stop this abuse? Nothing. They are too busy figuring out the best long-term posture for licking Bush's Backside.
One of many article now appearing:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/....id/index.html
The terrorists have won, freedom in the USA will be heavily curtailed just as they wanted.