State bureaucrats trained to lobby for REAL ID
Posted on September 25th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, CATO Institute, Fascist police, federal government, freedom, Jim Harper, liberty, police state, politics, privacy, public relations, public relations exercise, States, Supreme Court, taxes, Technology, terrorism, Washington DC, your money, your rightsState bureaucrats have converged in Washington DC for a two-day conference on REAL ID compliance. Panels cover such topics as how to get the required funding, how to meet the Act’s deadlines, and how to share data across states.
One session in particular caught the eye of Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute (Full disclosure: I’m an adjunct scholar at Cato). It’s a panel discussion called “Bringing your public onboard for smoothing legislative changes.” The summary states that “every State DMV needs to find a way to educate their public so that they can ensure the legislature changes necessary to become Real ID compliant.” The panel will also “examine how much of your (i.e., the DMV’s) budget a public relations exercise is worth.” Such a “public relations exercise” would presumably be conducted at taxpayer expense.
Fascist police state. It’s going to be really interesting the next few years. I really hope the several states stick to their guns and refuse to implement REAL ID. It could be a very important showdown. Knowing that it’s unconstitutional I wonder if the federal government has the guts to bring it before the Supreme Court.
