We don't need the gummint snooping into our lives

Refocus

This reader comment [below] makes the A List.  I do think we ought to spend the same effort protecting driver's license integrity  as we do a $20 bill, but that does not require computerized backlinks to a national data base.  While ''Her Filthiness'' got the ball rolling in compromising health privacy, with her Nazi Health Care plan, Republicans have enacted much of her rejected scheme into law.  I remember watching a C-Span round table years ago, when a caller took some Republican lawmaker to the shed over one such bill.  The congressman had no idea that this particular provision was contained in the very law he had voted to enact!  That's why I encourage people to horsewhip at least one lawmaker a day, on general principle.  Electrical wire works nicely. Tell them it hurts youn as much as it does them. While I had to take a shower with a wire brush (can't.... get....Clean!!) after visiting an ACLU link, I have to say: Your driver's license became THE "National ID" card last year. Yup, Google it, 'cause I never heard a peep on Al-Fox, Al-Reuters or CNN. Most people don't realize that it happened. I have a friend (not a friend of a friend B.S.) that had a DWI while stationed in MA more than 10 years ago. In the middle of 2005 he had his Drivers License pulled without notice in COLORADO (which doesn't have the same standard of DUI laws/ License recovery) because he missed one of his MA "DWI classes" more than 10 years ago while deployed to Bosnia. Six months later he, an E8, is still riding a bicycle to work in the snow (on a waiting list with a gazillion other people instantaneously in the same situation). Call me crazy, but I don't want other states complaining that I didn't have a FOID card or sharing my gun purchasing habits with other states.... But they're working on it (IL). One State's Laws now apply to all others?? Remember that when you buy a gun (or anything else outlawed by another State). Remember that when they call you by name during a pizza order. (no I ain't complaining about wire-taps to terrorists overseas). # posted by root@localhost.localdomain.com : 1:14 AM EST A driver's license as national ID?   PS- A hat tip to Mother Superior for finding that Pizza Link. Well, actually in this case, a lip kiss.