I guy once told me: "We have to quit chasing headlines, if we want to win we have to be the headlines". What is meant by that, and you do allude to it, is that we (even a redneck like myself) must get OUR legislators to write, submit. and pass legislation like you speak of...BUT, BE BOLDER! Preventive (preemptive, if you will) legislation that cuts the bad stuff off before it can get it's grubby little claws to even grasp at the Freedom we hold dear and have a duty to protect.

Here in Oklahoma, for two consecutive years, we have attempted law that would "outlaw' RFID in, on, around, or near our DL. Lessee...last year the House passed it, the Senate passed...the then Gov vetoed it! Enter the present: New Repub Gov, massive Repub majority in House and Senate, HB1399 is up to bat...Whoa! HB1399 gets pulled from the game (was never ALLOWED to be heard in Committee. Moral of this story -- even when it APPEARS that things are going your way, act like they ain't until you've secured an absolute victory.

Have Fun!

Yep...I is he. Perhaps I should have properly introduced myself at the outset (to be honest, I was lucky to have figured out how to login so I could post).

Some days, some issues...I'm a glass-half-full kinda guy! On REAL ID (and all the scruffy little stuff that comes with it)...not so much. You are correct that state legislatures have, and still are, pushing back "REAL ID" (but they are missing the trees for the forest) and in some instances they are pushing back (at least attempting) against those things that "scare the heck out me" and you. Kudo's to'em!!! Keep it up, but they had better watch their backs as well because the EVIL MONSTER, Administrative Law, will bite the peoples butt while they're watching the other direction.

Hmmmm.... REAL ID SCORES Again! http://www.wrn.com/2011/03/state-to-start-mailing-out-drivers-licenses/

Derek: Please...just for a moment....close your eyes. The Fed DOESN"T NEED an ACTUAL ID card. That is a symbol of National ID. What they need to have a national ID program are the benchmarks in place. There are no longer silo's of information and once the info is obtained, no matter the specific item (fingerprint, iris, palm, biometric, etc,) and regardless the means (drivers license, medical records, paasport, hunting license, etc.) they will have everything that WOULD be included (and MUCH more) in an actual ID card...Make sense? It's not The Card! It's the information, The Data, that makes CONTROL easy. YOUR BODY IS YOUR ID....not The Card you carry. Mobile facial recognition devices, mobile fingerprint scanners, mobile iris scanners, (with research into skeletal biometrics - mobile backscatter x-ray machines).