3/11/2005
The Damnable Modern Passport by Paul Boytinck
John Torpey. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Right. The Feds have plans for you. In the future, if they get their way, you will own a high-tech passport full of promise. It will be compact. The machine-readable data it contains will be unique and impossible to forge. The machines charged with reading it will be infallible and never suffer breakdowns. The old photo-based passport will be a thing of the past. The new passport will mean progress beyond your wildest dreams. The country, once vulnerable to malcontents, innumerable illegals, mafiosi, terrorists, brooding novelists and other such vermin, will be made safe once and forever and for all time.
Right. The Feds have plans for you. In the future, if they get their way, you will own a high-tech passport full of promise. It will be compact. The machine-readable data it contains will be unique and impossible to forge. The machines charged with reading it will be infallible and never suffer breakdowns. The old photo-based passport will be a thing of the past. The new passport will mean progress beyond your wildest dreams. The country, once vulnerable to malcontents, innumerable illegals, mafiosi, terrorists, brooding novelists and other such vermin, will be made safe once and forever and for all time.
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