[azhenfud]

U.S. Passports are our friends.

[BellStar]

Thank God. It is about time. My mothers Military ID I trust my gardeners New Mexico drivers license I don't.

[stainlessbanner]

aimed at forcing states

bah

[mysterio]

This kind of incrementalism is unacceptable from any political party. Let me guess : in a few years, we will be required to have the card on us at all times and be forced to present it to any LEO for any reason. And in 30 years, our kids will have the NEW AND IMPROVED(tm) card, which is actually a biometric chip that reports positional data to a government satellite. And all of the apologists will scream down the opponents, saying "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about," and calling them tinfoil hatters. Maybe we don't deserve freedom or privacy. We certainly don't value either. At least we'll be "safe," though.

[AD from SpringBay]

In High School and College I always thought the idea of the "Student Government" was silly. They had no authority and no real power. In retrospect that was an ideal government (but I digress).

Governments, in lieu of any products or services people will buy, tend to impose their services upon the people. This is one more thing we don't need imposed upon us. But unlike something that's just annoying (like seat belt laws) the potential to abuse this is tremendous. Maybe we should try to look past the current administration.

[Redcloak]

...driver's licenses and other ID cards must include a digital photograph, anticounterfeiting features and undefined "machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements" that could include a magnetic strip or RFID tag.

The last itme I looked, bar codes and the like were machine readable. Hardly what I'd call "electronic ID". I think that our author needs to knock a few back and calm down.