Citizen, Your Papers?!

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) is renewing their push for a de facto national ID card. They can call it anything they want - but its a frigging national ID card they're promoting. In the past, I've opposed this plan as a member of the Coalition for Constitutional Liberties along with a broad left-right coalition of organizations led primarily by the ACLU and Free Congress Foundation. It looks like this is getting hot again. My opposition to this Soviet-style form of public control remains just as solid. In the end, we are trading liberty for security - make that a false sense of security. After we've relinquished our privacy and shredded the Bill of Rights, what exactly will we be protecting ourselves from? Some relevant links are below: