Nice push back against Real ID. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/california-back.html I know there have been debates on the forum before about it, but this stuff is truly heinous and Orwellian. It's basically good-bye to privacy, and welcome to being included in a database your federal government is going to share with other countries in the world. Yes, the Israeli or Saudi governments may end up knowing more about your medical, financial and political history than your next door neighbor. In Russia, it was "papers please". This ain't Russia.
Honestly when I read about the details of the Real ID and the way they want to use RFID to track North American migration...I wondered, could there be anything more totalitarian than knowing the location of each subject at any given instant? To be able to match an internet post from 4 years ago to the posters' instantaneous physical location? Call me paranoid, but when I think about new legislation and potential impact, the first thing I ask is how politicians can use this power to further their own ends. Machiavelli was considered a political genius, and the concept of "conspiracy theories" was only invented later to discourage this type of power/structuralist thinking among the commoners...
A lot of people are dumbed down or indoctrinated. Just look at the legion who have no idea who they are voting for, but can name every contestant on Survivor's first 3 seasons. It's time to push back. And wake a few people up (gently of course, no one responds well to a raving conspiratorial lunatic)