Posted on 05/06/2005 1:40:25 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver's license likely will have to be reissued to meet federal standards.
The Real ID Act hands the Department of Homeland Security the power to set these standards and determine whether state drivers' licenses and other ID cards pass muster. Only ID cards approved by Homeland Security can be accepted "for any official purpose" by the feds.
In exchange for federal cash, states must agree to link up their databases. Specifically, the Real ID Act says it hopes to "provide electronic access by a state to information contained in the motor vehicle databases of all other states."
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It sounds as if I'll soon have more freedom if I go on vacation to Mexico and sneak back across the border as an illegal.
Good... lets just be done with it and encrypt biometrics on every card and test at secure areas (no need for national db, store retinal scan, and use card along to check against scanning station realtime results)
At the moment, state driver's licenses aren't easy for bars, banks, airlines and so on to swipe through card readers because they're not uniform; some may have barcodes but no magnetic stripes, for instance, and some may lack both. Steinhardt predicts the federalized IDs will be a gold mine for government agencies and marketers. Also, he notes that the Supreme Court ruled last year that police can demand to see ID from law-abiding U.S. citizens.
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Forget that, Digital Angel is ready and waiting to put a chip in your forearm and your forehead for identification. It will carry all your credit info so there will no longer be any legitimate need for cash. The G10's job will be done and we will be a cashless world. But, watch out for those ten horns of the seven headed beast(G7) which gained an eigth head to become G8. The beast with a blasphemous name is here. Beware the coming of the mark!
Mark who?
"State DMVs will have to verify that these identity documents are legitimate, digitize them and store them permanently. In addition, Social Security numbers must be verified with the Social Security Administration."
Sure. And just like now, some enterprizing DMV worker will fudge the requirements for cash. Seems they did this in New York and Virginia.
Well, I don't fly public airlines, all my bank accounts are decades old and since I never paid any social security, screw them.
As for "other government services" I pray I am never targeted for any of them, but I keep a blue water vessel in ship shape at the dock just in case.
I'm sure this anti-American ID crap will keep us all safe.
On the bright side, we won't need tickets for the cattle cars that take us to the nice new summer camps.
The Congresscritter who pushed this through is one of the 10 most conservative in the USA, based on ACU voting score. He is also my congresscritter, and he did the right thing.
States are NOT required to "link databases"--but no illegal will be given a driver's license unless it is noted, clearly, that the individual is an illegal.
If the immigrant has a date-certain visa expiry, the date-certain WILL be on the DL, and the DL expires at the same time the visa does.
There will be plenty of States which will not "link DB's"--and it's irrelevant anyway, as the FBI's DB on criminals is national, already.
A terrorist is anyone who exploits fear to advance a political program. You are absolutely right that some folks have been waiting for their chance to take Fed control of the people (let's not say citizenry) to the next level.
Most far reaching will be this national database. Guess what DB's do best? They grow at rates that would shame a whole fleet of rabbits. This DB will be a nice place to build profiles. The possibilities are endless (and scary).
He forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark. Rev 13:16-17
Looks like it will take effect in May 08, if Hitlery wins I don't know wtf I will do.
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