I just sent the message below – opposing the Real ID Act of 2005 – to my state assemblyman and senator. I can’t believe the US Congress would pass such a thing, but they’ve surprised me several times since we were all terrorized on 9/11.

On perusing Senator McClintock’s site for his e-mail address, I found the following quote, rather prominently placed:

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown – it may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.”
— William Pitt

Compelling, don’t you think? But Pitt and Jefferson and Washington are all dead. We have to go to work on the legislature we have, not the one we wish we had.