11 January 2008

paperz please

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/secure_driver_s_licenses

I'm really tired of this idea that we need to be 'secure'. There are any number things that are related to this 'REAL ID' that made sense. Verifying SS numbers for example, taking pictures of con artists or illegals. But did these things require an overhaul of how driver's licenses were distributed and issued? Not really. Mostly they required less bureaucratic laziness. This idea perpetuates the laziness and replaces it with something potentially easier to commit fraud with (because of the laziness that allowed to begin with).

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