Antipitas
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Originally Posted by alan
Some might put it as follows. The DHS could well turn out to be, if it has not already become, one of the greatest threats to the individual liberties of Americans in their own country. For instance, as Mr. Byrne asks, would someone please define "official purposes", including all the wonderous and perhaps gory details of the term.
That is my real objection to this whole thing, alan.
According to the legislation that was passed and signed, that little phrase on the extent of the Secretary of Homeland Defense, "and other purposes," gives a very wide latitude for what this ID may eventually be used for. It isn't at all constrained by the simple wording of what it may be used for at the start, as those "other purposes" are not defined.
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Al Norris
In his response to my post, see above, Antipitas called attention to an interesting "term of art" in enacted legislation, that being "and for other purposes". If the following is a bit off pouint, bear with me for a moment, this "for other purposes" has appeared elsewhere, in the most objectionable legislative double-talk such as offered by Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, in H.R. 1022, the so called Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization. There also, strange isn't, the term "and for other purposes" appears, these "other purposes" remaining oh so conveniently undefined.
Then there is, respecting this Real ID Act, as Mr. Byrne notes, see his Letter To Editor, another interesting term of art, this being "official purposes", which strange to note are also undefined. At the risk of some bringing out the tinfoil lined hats, or making reference to the wearing thereof, as we have previously seen, the ongong use of overly broad, or openended, UNDEFINED terminology used to grant all manner of power to bureaucratic agencies is more than a little troubling to me, and it would appear, to others too.
