"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
DHS Sweats Out National ID Town Hall Meeting
"DHS made its case with little subtlety. ?A fraudulent ID card in the hands of a terrorist is a weapon,? said Barth, sitting under a projection of 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta's Florida driver's license." These scare tactics are just getting ridiculous: Atta had legally acquired a driver's license, not a "fraudulent" one as DHS implies. It's hard to see what these national standards have anything to do with, other than further centralization of power and general anti-foreign hysteria.
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