Federal IDs are coming

[gray_ghost]

Oh shit....this just sucks.....

National ID in 3 years

Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver's license likely will have to be reissued to meet federal standards.

After people get used to this - they are probably going to start pushing for RFID tags to be surgically embedded at the base of your skull.

Now although I am a law-abiding math teacher and semi-productive member of society, I come from a long and ignoble line of horse thieves, gunfighters, gamblers and other assorted lawbreakers who wound up west because the Sheriff in the last county was looking to lynch them, and the western territories seemed like a better option. In short - the sort of people who like to stay off the grid of society. Laws like this just make it that much harder for people who are paranoid about the government and authority to disappear from society.

And I mean, in the back of my mind there is the possibility that if teaching doesn't work out - I could always return to robbing banks and trains =) This just makes that option a little harder.

Comments

[phendog.livejournal.com]

*Laughs nervously* Definitely don't discount the RFID idea...

It's amazing how many people are chipped already.

[gray-ghost.livejournal.com]

They probably would have tried to push it through already if the idea hasn't received such bad press from the Bible (sign of the beast and all that) and the Nazis tattooing numbers onto people.

--Tyler

[phendog.livejournal.com]

*L* Amazing you should bring that all up. That's what my senior thesis was on, you know, as well as my IEEE paper and it's my topic for speaking at the L.A. Engineering ethics conference! *hee*

Btw, you might find this interesting.