{"id":497,"date":"2005-05-10T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T19:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-04-12T20:04:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T00:04:46","slug":"real-id-act-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/10\/real-id-act-status\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL ID Act Status"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Summary & Status for the 109th Congress – H.R. 418 (The REAL ID Act of 2005)<\/a><\/p>\n

Aww crap. Click on “All Information” and you’ll see that it passed, with minor amendments (click on “Amendments” to see those amendments).<\/p>\n

Seriously, folks, this has got to stop. If things keep going like this, we’re either going to loose all personal liberties, or there’s going to be a revolution. And the longer we wait, the less likely it is that the revolution will be peaceful & political – instead it’ll more likely be violent (unless we’ve entirely lost our “right to bear arms” by then).<\/p>\n

What a sad state of affairs for what used to be such a wonderful country.<\/p>\n

Remember folks – YOU elected these people! The state of this country is not caused by “evil politicians” entirely – they are, after all, just a reflection of the society which they represent. In this case, of course, the soceity is American – and what they are representing is not good. Politicians are like a mirror held up to the face of our society; and what I’m seeing right now is bad, bad, BAD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aww crap, it passed. Seriously, folks, this has got to stop. If things keep going like this, we’re either going to loose all personal liberties, or there’s going to be a revolution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[385,65],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics","tag-real-id","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-81","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":901,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/06\/20\/why-do-governments-and-corporations-become-evil\/","url_meta":{"origin":497,"position":0},"title":"Why do Governments and Corporations become Evil?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The corporate motto of Google, Inc. is \"Don't be Evil.\" While this might seem like playful banter from an amazingly successful company, it actually says something deep and meaningful about human society - namely, that organizations; be they corporations, religious groups, or governments; over time become \"evil.\"","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":553,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/06\/23\/kelo-v-city-of-new-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":497,"position":1},"title":"Kelo v. 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