“My concern is that even if they water [the Real ID Act] down a bit, DHS will try and accomplish what they want to with some other legislation,” Guest said. “Homeland Security has total control; there is no judicial or legislative control over this. Once they issue [the Act] there is no way of stopping them.”

-U.S. Representative Jim Guest

Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is now up to new tricks. Not content in trying to make flying an aircraft an exercise in secret database surveillance, now it appears that DHS wants the states to cooperate in a new plan to implement “readable technology” in all new driver’s licenses.

But not if Missouri Representative Jim Guest, along with a coalition of as many of 38 states has anything to say about it.

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