Dad bought his first driver's license for 50 cents in a hardware store. Neither an exam nor any particular identification was required. Now I can use a passport to get into the US, but the passport alone is not enough ID to get a driver's license. I have lived here in the US for 59 years. I have lived in the same town for 20+ years, paying taxes, working, maintaining a home, and raising a family. During that time the faceless gummint (sic) to which we subscribe has become quite oppressive. Do they think terrorists really need licenses to drive? I could drive quite well at 11 years of age. Though I had no experience on the road, I could easily have survived there.
To me Live ID and other such schemes are just a marriage of imperfect thinking with hysteria. It's a bit like requiring shoe registration to limit walking to non-terrorists. That is, a farce.
The government is absolutely powerless to stop or alter the things that make us susceptible to terrorism:
- living together in large enclaves
- growing our food in factories
- having a large energy consumption (requiring energy depots)
- traveling together in public conveyances
- pissing off the world by appearing to hate one religion and "love" another
The sheep need to realize that there is no ultimate protection, and that the government should be the last (and certainly the most expensive) place to look for help. Life today maintains an even thinner veneer over danger than it did in the Dark Ages. At least then everyone understood that they had to be able to survive on their own merits. There was no silly expectation that a group of people hundreds of miles away in Washington would ensure your welfare. Good Lord, how naive! They will certainly ensure their own welfare, but not yours. Cannot and will not.
