This is what six years of Republican, Neo/Theocon, Patriot Act BULL SHIT! has produced: a nation where someone is refused the purchase of a new car unless they relinquish biometric data — in this case, a thumbprint — based on no law but simply a company policy of a feckin’ automotive dealership. What will it take for the sheep to wake up?

Do they really have to line us up for tattoos before we balk?