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Old Apr 24, 2009 | 12:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Wally Bird
Good for her. Now if we could just convince her the 9/11 gang did not enter via Canada or Mexico, perhaps we could then dispense with even more nonsense.
No kidding -- finally some common sense here. Why has it taken so long for the federal government to say what she did:

She said she wants to substitute the federal law with "something else that pivots off of the driver's license but accomplishes some of the same goals
At the same time, we have some states saying they want to issue a "limited" licence, one that will "only be used for driving purposes" (!) Wow, what a limitiation! I can only use my driving licence for driving!

RealID is so totally bass ackward -- the problem is that states are using a driving licence -- which was only intended to demonstrate that the bearer was licensed to drive -- as an identity document. Instead of just doing what most places do and make it illegal to use a licence for identification purposes, they instead come up with RealID, which attempts to create a driving licence/identity document hybrid, ignoring the fact that many people who are perfectly qualified to drive may not be able to prove their identity.

On top of that, of course, was the sneaky, underhanded way that the RealID legislation was slipped through without any debate -- debate which would have exposed the fundamental illogic of the RealID approach.
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