{"id":5003,"date":"2004-12-28T10:06:48","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T10:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T14:44:36","slug":"more-on-national-id-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/28\/more-on-national-id-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"More on National ID Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Cohen of Newhouse News Service on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/484\/5153380.html\">National standards for driver&#8217;s licenses worry civil libertarians<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans have long used their driver&#8217;s licenses to identify themselves when cashing a check, buying liquor, applying for a job or starting an account at the video store.<\/p>\n<p>Now, under legislation signed by President Bush this month, those state-issued licenses will have to meet uniform national standards to be accepted as proof of identity for boarding airplanes, applying for federal benefits and other U.S. government purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bad idea folks. A real bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslandrith.com\/\">Taking The Gloves Off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> Since I&#8217;ve been involved in this issue on the advocacy\/policy level, I&#8217;ve decided to add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiracial.com\/blog\/index.php?cat=35\">a new category to the blog on this topic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Cohen of Newhouse News Service on National standards for driver&#8217;s licenses worry civil libertarians: Americans have long used their driver&#8217;s licenses to identify themselves when cashing a check, buying liquor, applying for a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,19,21,141],"tags":[128,91],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-news-clips","tag-civil-liberties","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1iH","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/News-Clips.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}