Real ID Act 2005

"........Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror......."
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In 2005 the Real ID Act, or as it began H.R. 415 and later H.R. 418, was passed in the House of Representatives. The Real ID Act will grant additional power to the monster known as Homeland Security (I will examine H.R 5005 in increments in the future). Basically highly detailed information about American citizens such as social security number, physical characteristics, etc. will be compiled into a data base. How is this different from a driver's license? Without the Real Act identification, citizens will be unable to open a bank account, ride an airplane, train, bus, or enter a federal building. In other words, our current methods of identification will become obsolete. To do things we ALREADY DO, we'll have to comply and get the Real ID. Each state will be required to link it's motor vehicle database with all other states. The DMV will become agents of the federal government. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00418:

By the way, the cost is estimated around $80 to 100 million of state funds.

The new ID card will cost more than driver's licenses. More revenue for the government, I suppose.

The bill was initially voted down. Then it was added onto the 2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief. What congressperson would vote against money for our soldiers and tsunami relief?

Naturally the states could refuse to play ball. However, its citizens could not receive social security or travel. Non compliance could keep state citizens from obtaining jobs.

Here's a list of states opposing the Real Act: Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma. South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington have joined Maine and Utah. Unfortunately these are non-binding resolutions and not the law. The decision is left to our governors (Wikipedia).

Governors such as Sonny Perdue. People whom believe the solution to a drought is to beg an all-powerful white man that lives in the sky.......for rain. Nice. Don't forget your knee pads Sonny. At least he believes in SOME degree of liberty. (He's against the Real ID Act, but won't allow Georgians to buy adult beverages on Sunday.)

Speaking of theists, here's what Mike Huckabee said September 26, 2007. At least he got one of his positions right.

"There have been some things in this particular administration that have been troubling to me. I'm certainly a 10th Amendment guy. I'm a federalist at heart. I think Jefferson was right and Hamilton was wrong. And at times this administration seems to have become Hamiltonian and not Jeffersonian. For example, with REAL ID, that's a huge mistake. It's putting a burden on a state that should not be the state's function, which is to provide the frontline of national security defense at the hands of a DMV worker at a state office. That's absurd. And then not funding it. That's a real problem. If you're going to have federal program then the feds ought to pay for it." (www.news.yahoo.com)

Similar resolutions are pending in Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming (Wikipedia).

California and North Carolina appear to support the Real ID Act.

Homeland Security is bribing states with $79.8 million to "assist with Real Act implementations." This action was announced by big brother on January 29, 2008 (Fox News, January 11, 2008).

My next blog will examine RFID implants.