[TChris]

Why the resistance? Isn’t RealID a Good Thing?

[Orange1998]

Depend who your talking too. The government loves it and the average Joe doesn’t. You be the judge.

[George W. Bush]

No, it's a Bad Thing. Honestly, some people would, if told by Bush that there was a Muslim under their beds, demand that he implement a full Soviet-era police state and abolish the Constitution entirely.

Notice in the article how it is cemented into place with the Senate's immigration bill. It won't just be the illegals and the guest workers who will be forced to carry these.

After this, they'll want to chip you, probably subcutaneous RFID.

[philman_36]

Why the resistance? Isn’t RealID a Good Thing?
Well, what do you know about it? Or rather, what have you heard about it?

[philman_36]

Isn’t RealID a Good Thing?
LOL...Exclusive: Federal REAL ID Act Does Not Create National Identity
Card: That’s a Good Thing

[philman_36]

Spotlight on Surveillance
March 2007:
Federal REAL ID Proposal Threatens Privacy and Security
When it created the Department of Homeland Security, Congress made clear in the enabling legislation that the agency could not create a national ID system.[48] In September 2004, then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge reiterated, “[t]he legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security was very specific on the question of a national ID card. They said there will be no national ID card.”[49] The REAL ID Act creates a de facto national ID card.
The requirement for non-REAL ID driver’s license or ID card to have explicit “invalid for federal purposes” designations turns this “voluntary” card into a mandatory national ID card. Anyone with a different license or ID card would be instantly suspicious. It will be easy for insurance companies, credit card companies, even video stores, to demand a REAL ID driver’s license or ID card in order to receive services. Significant delay, complication and possibly harassment or discrimination would fall upon those without a REAL ID card.

I suggest you read that article. It covers a lot of info.

[radioman]

Why the resistance? Isn’t RealID a Good Thing?

All laws have two uses. One for which the law was intended and one for which it was not. What will be the unintended consequence of Real ID?
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