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.
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yup the REAL ID act is coming home to roost…. just another thing to thank that buffoon GWB for….. compassionate conservative??? I think not
I like the idea of a tinfoil bikini!
It’s all for naught. Corrupt figures within the license bureaus already knowingly sell genuine state issued IDs to persons presenting false names (and cash) to foreign national islamists.
Require a passport or nothing. Everything else is hopelessly compromised.
Time to start that diet and get into an exercise program before they put a special death panel code onto our mark of the devil cards.
Hat? There’s a hat in that Britney photo?
Say what you will, she’s still the very simulacrum of feminine pulchritude, with a whole lotta va-va-VOOM added.
Pity the Disney machine destroyed her morals.
OOPS! Wrong thread.
Hat? There is a HAT in that photo?
I don’t care, Britney is a gorgeous young lady, no matter what the Disney machine did to her ethics and morals.
OK, I gotta get to bed...
G_d bless all, g’night.
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