I wrote this over at my other blog, but I wanted Jim and Marshall to be able to chime in on this.

We’ve known Mayor Mike Bloomberg is a bit loopy for awhile now. Consider this news another piece of evidence.

The mayor said DNA and fingerprint technology could be used to create a worker ID database that will “uniquely identify the person” applying for a job, ensuring that cards are not illegally transferred or forged.

Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said a DNA or fingerprint database “doesn’t sound like the free society we think we’re living in.”

“It will inevitably be used not just by employers but by law enforcement, government agencies, schools and all over the private sector,” she said.

It’s not all that often I agree with the ACLU, but they’re pretty spot on with this one. Mayor Bloomberg… you’re a mayor. You’re not the Lord High Mighty of Bloombergia and we’re not your loyal subjects.

Can this guy please just go ahead and change his party affiliation?

Marshall: It’s been fashionable of late to talk about NSA eavesdropping and other such stories by invoking the nightmare world of 1984. But Mayor Bloomberg takes the cake. If he gets his way, we’ll all just be mere subjects of government, living our lives as labratory mice trapped in a cage, subsisting in a perfectly controlled environment. Our movements will be tracked. Our moods monitored. Our diet mandated and carefully delivered to us as the designated hours for eating.

I’ve written a lot lately about tyranny. About how government is increasingly becoming the dominant force in our lives and interfering with every choice we make about how we live our lives. And the more I write about tyranny, the more I’m afraid that no one is listening or that we’ve all just become immune to the quiet consumption of our freedom. I’d like to be persuaded that I’m wrong about this. That people really do realize that our freedom is being eroded, one little decision at a time. But for now, I’m pretty dishearted, and pretty concerned.

I like to remind people that government only has what power over us that we give it. And that we have to maintain control of it, or it will inexorably drift out of control. That’s precisely what’s happening, and too many of us just don’t seem to care.