REAL ID<\/a> rears its ugly head – and what your national ID says about you might determine whether you’re asked to step aside for “special” screening.<\/p>\nPersonally, I’m going to be very disappointed if we just roll over and accept these sorts of things – as it appears we are doing. We have gone from the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave” to the “Land of the Fearful and the Home of the Sheepish.”<\/p>\n
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