The State Dept. has been issuing

"Passport Cards" for a while now. They can be used in lieu of a regular Passport when traveling by sea or land

amongst the US, Canada, Mexico and many Caribbean countries.

These cards have RFID chips which can be read by

anyone with the appropriate reader.

Regular Passports can't be too far behind. Newer ones can be "swiped" and

read like a credit card already.

If the history of mankind has shown us anything, its that as soon as a

technology is available (pointed sticks, sharpened steel, gunpowder, airplanes) there will be someone intent on

using it to suppress and control as many people as possible.

Restraining influences can be by external

counter-force (or the threat thereof) or internally by rule of law.

gotta run, more later