David Berlind is a "good little Nazi".
"We're already supposed to present an ID almost everywhere we go."
REALLY??? I have a counter proposal. When any foreign national enters the US, the INS clamps on a non-removable, GPS position transmitting anklet with a uniqe digital signature, which transmits continuously to a computer in Washington. When they leave, we remove it. CITIZENS don't have to wear one.
'Techno-devotees' or those who like to use their infrared ports to beam phone numbers from their PalmPilot to their phone without ever having read or understand the nitworkings of the IrDA specs, seem much more amenable to figuring that they can solve anything with their new obvious centralized plan.
Luckily, the old white guys in Boston weren't similarly confused.