From a correspondent to the "IP List":

>Perhaps more to the point, since passage of Real ID appears to be a
>virtual certainty, concerned persons should be prepared to engage
>where possible in support of the various court challenges to Real ID
>(on numerous different grounds) that thankfully will certainly
>follow.
>
>Of course, if Frist and his minions get their way, they'll populate
>the judiciary with their sycophants deluxe -- the goal being to turn
>the federal courts into rubber stamps for Frist's particularly
>intolerant distortion of patriotism.
>
>"For the safety and glory of the Homeland -- your papers, please."
>
>And to think, exactly sixty years ago we were celebrating victory
>over a regime where internal passports and identity papers were
>foundations for a repressive lifestyle that was supposed to last for
>a thousand years.
>

Dougie's vision of a land safe from unruly immigrants is similar to the correspondents historical reflection. Dougie is a good American of course, and will not be troubled. Much as good Germans were not. And their sky was not falling either, until it did.

A