U.S. passport gets a little more patriotic
No doubt the U.S. State Department hopes the controversial new e-passports that FP wrote about in The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 will go down more smoothly with a spoonful of patriotism. That may be why the design of the new travel documents features less-than-subtle U.S. imagery, with famous quotes interspersed with icons ...
No doubt the U.S. State Department hopes the controversial new e-passports that FP wrote about in The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 will go down more smoothly with a spoonful of patriotism.
No doubt the U.S. State Department hopes the controversial new e-passports that FP wrote about in The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006 will go down more smoothly with a spoonful of patriotism.
That may be why the design of the new travel documents features less-than-subtle U.S. imagery, with famous quotes interspersed with icons from the country’s founding era like Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and even—in a move that privacy advocates will find particularly galling—a scan of the heading from the famous preamble to the Constitution on the signature page. But look at it this way: At last, ordinary U.S. citizens can imagine what it was like to be one of the founding fathers.
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(Hat tip: Kottke)
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