Real ID will be real pain
You fear the long lines at the DMV now? Just wait until the federal Real ID Act kicks in beginning in May 2008. Drivers wanting to renew their licenses will have to produce a birth certificate in person and other identification to verify who they are and that they are legally entitled to a license. There will be other requirements, but the feds have yet not determined what they are yet. They are still in what's called the rule-making stage.
The Riverside Press Enterprise explains what else is at stake in this post-9/11 law. Read it here.
All this is supposed to make us safer. We'll see.
Comments
How is this supposed to make us safer? We'll be sitting ducks waiting in those endless lines at the DMV.
Posted by: Mike D. | September 22, 2006 5:28 PM
more than osama bin laden,more than al-queda,our goverment fears its own citizens,nobody can stop their bloody orgy except us...when the writ of habeus corpus is suspended,we can no longer call ours a free country.why not just tatoo a number?
Posted by: john swift | September 23, 2006 11:20 AM