Posted on 12/30/2013 7:08:27 AM PST by Nachum
Just as you were wrapping your mind around the idea that under Obamacare and the accompanying changes in the health-care system, your medical records will be floating around in some online repository, available to far too many people, you’re being told you’ll soon have a National Identity Card and a Western Hemisphere-compliant travel document whether you want it or not, if you plan to drive in the United States.
The federal government says it soon will be enforcing its demands that state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards comply with Department of Homeland Security standards.
DHS announced just before Christmas a final schedule for the full enforcement of the REAL ID Act of 2005.
That was set for a phased implementation beginning in January 2014 and full-scale enforcement planned no later than May 2017, at which time the federal government will no longer accept state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards that do not meet the minimum security standards set by DHS.
For many Americans, the full implementation of the REAL ID act is certain to trigger unfortunate memories of World War II and the modus operandi of fascist, totalitarian states, where travelers and ordinary citizens on the street are stopped by authorities and demanded, “Your papers, please!”
In the U.S., the justification for the REAL ID Act of 2005 was the concern for enhanced travel security after the 9/11 Commission documented several of the 9/11 terrorists had valid state-issued driver’s licenses and were able to freely board airplanes even though they were terrorists who had entered the U.S. illegally.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
Isn’t this racist?
And anyone who can't produce a valid ID will be deported to their country of origin. / bitter sarc
With respect to what I expect, it is not about me but if I am in a combat zone and the enemy is pounding the crap out of us from the sky and my side has 400 Stingers, or a derivative thereof, and knowing my resource of weapons is in far greater numbers than their fixed wing resources, you figure it out. Once the cap is gone, then so is the protection for the rotary wing. The Afghans and Iraqi insurgents are awfully good at bringing down our choppers with their grenade launchers.
They’re so afraid to admit that the USA has a national ID card, that everyone is required to carry around.
It’s the driver’s license.
Admit it. We’re just like the European countries.
I have no problem with a compulsory national ID, provided that it applies exactly the same way to everyone, and that the the democrat’s favorite new voting group, illegal immigrants, can’t get one.
True irony in that, isn’t there.
I don’t know. I thought the same thing, but it appears the DL must have an RFID chip? I don’t think my DL is chipped and I just got a TDL 6 months ago.
That’s not how it works...
The way it works is, rather than address threats to national security through force and resolve, you create a hysteria that induces the sheep to bleat for safety and respond to it by restricting their liberty.
As soon as the feds wave money, most states salivate and ask how high they should jump...
Finally - a use for aluminum foil that has nothing to do with hats.
“I’m sure they will also be requiring this for voter I.D. Yes?”
Make it a requirement that either voter ID is part of that card or it is DOA.
Let the rats talk their way out of that.
It’s my recollection that the fancy bar code on the back meets the ‘Real ID’ requirement. It’s Department of Homeland Security ‘Enhanced Drivers Licence’ that would require the chip. I already have a Passport Card with a chip.
Well, that’s inconvenient. Why don’t they just tattoo a barcode on your forehead or the back of your hand? /s
How many times do we need to tell them “no”?
Georgia is a ‘Real ID’ driver’s license state:
http://www.dds.ga.gov/drivers/dldata.aspx?con=1743171757&ty=dl
http://www.dds.ga.gov/secureid/accepteddocs.aspx
SS numbers were dropped from driver’s licenses when identity theft became a sport, but your SS number is required to get a license. Obama doesn’t have a Georgia driver’s license.
http://www.dds.ga.gov/drivers/dldata.aspx?con=1744926528&ty=dl
“How many times do we need to tell them “no”?”
Saying “No” falls on deaf ears unless delivered at high velocity.
Homeland - creepy little totalitarian wannabees...
3200 fps faster enough?
I bet they still won’t require it for voting, that would be racist.
Our elected “Conservative” republicans in the House ans Senate let this kind of crap through without even a mention? I thought their was a call for National ID a few years ago and it was defeated or at least those pushing it backed down. It was probably inserted into other legislation and then passed by those who said they were against it. I can see Alexander doing it that way, for our own good. Washington Generals and Harlem Globe Trotters.
Hmm, I thought so as well, but check: http://www.dhs.gov/enhanced-drivers-licenses-what-are-they
There, as I read it both a chip and a bar code are required. At the site it’s stated:
“Enhanced drivers licenses make it easier for U.S. citizens to cross the border into the United States because they include
a vicinity Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip that will signal a secure system to pull up your biographic and biometric data for the CBP officer as you approach the border inspection booth, and
a Machine Readable Zone (MRZ) or barcode that the CBP officer can read electronically if RFID isn’t available.
The top 39 land ports of entry, which process more than 95 percent of land border crossings, are equipped with RFID technology that helps facilitate travel by individual presenting EDLs or one of the other RFID-enabled documents.”
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