A Case of Identity: Some thoughts on the Real ID Act, a national identity card, and the definition of liberty

More on the outrage known as the Real ID Act, courtesy of The Moderate Voice:

There are two major problems with this act.

The first involves a clause that exempts decisions of the Secretary of Homeland Security from judicial review.

The second problem is related to the so-called "machine readable ID" requirement.

In other words, those who promote this bill as discouraging illegal immigration and improving "homeland security" are either fooling themselves, or they have an agenda that is darker than the one they are presenting.

I believe the answer is the former, but unfortunately the outcome will be to promote the darker agenda that is not their intention.

However, regardless of their intentions, the Law of Unintended Consequences will hold true and ride roughshod over them.