[Nachum]

Full title: National ID headed for your wallet, purse Homeland Security to require digital features in driver's license

Wonder what the penalty would be for tampering with the digital card?

[Nachum]

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[Gaffer]

The Gestapo DHS can suck it. As far as their bastard son, the TSA, they can suck it, too. I won’t be flying any more in my lifetime.

As far as I’m concerned, they are an invading army of ideological ogres doing the bidding of tyrants.

[unixfox]

I’m sure they will also be requiring this for voter I.D. Yes?

[Utilizer]

...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!”

Who does this idiot think he's kidding? LEOs ALREADY do this and have done so for years, only the exact wording is now: "Licence, Registration, and Proof Of Insurance" sung in a particular monotomic cadence.

Let Me take a guess: he only bicycles to and fro to places or at the most takes public transportation anywhere he goes.

[Little Ray]

And they STILL won’t require folks to show it when voting...
Or they’ll issue it to Invading Barbarians, no question asked.

[PAR35]

Texas drivers licenses have been compliant for years. The debate here at the time focused more on the unfunded mandate issue, but all the hardware is now in place.

[Graewoulf]

Does this mean that illegal aliens such as Barry Soetoro will be deported?

[Dr. Sivana]

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.

Here in Wisconsin, you can opt to get a NON-REAL ID card. For the Feds, you can always get a passport, and keep it at home when you aren't traveling. While the Feds may not recognize the non-REAL ID card, the other states do.

[KarlInOhio]

My current driver's license has a magnetic strip and optical bar code on the back. The past few licenses may have been accidentally sitting under a tape degausser when it was turned on (can't read it? Well, I must have bumped my wallet against a magnet at work. Oh, well.)

However, with the easy availability of cameras and accurate OCR, those strips are old info. Just snap a picture of the front of the ID and the name, address, license number, etc. can be read and cross checked against the state database. The point I will get worried is when they start requiring RFID so that your license can be "checked" without you ever knowing it has been scanned.

[NonValueAdded]

Except for voting. It would be racis to use them for voting.

[Nifster]

check your current DL it may already meet many of these ‘requirements’. Folks tried to get the GOPelite congress to not pass this travesty. We did not succeed

[grania]

I could live with a national ID if it meant we could get invaders out of the US, and keep them out.

[Vaduz]

Banned sale of magnets to ensue.

[ElkGroveDan]

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

I have it on good authority that all of the terrorists had fully functioning, unrestricted, unregulated, feet and legs. This allowed them to move about communities AND airports at will. Is the solution to shackle everyone and only allow the TSA to unlock people who can demonstrate they have no nefarious intent with all this unmonitored walking-around?

I can think of thousands of ways to prevent the attacks on 911 with the powers of a police state, but that's no the country we live in. This crap has GOT to stop.

[Hostage]

What can stop this cold in its track is to require these IDs be presented when registering to vote.

[madison10]

“Papers please.”

“Sorry, officer, I have to unwrap the tin foil I have wrapped around the government snoop card.”

[SECURE AMERICA]

You all can KMA.. My Pennsylvania state ID has been good enough for many decades and it is still good enough now.

[listenhillary]

Drivers licenses are issued by the state. DHS, federal government should have no say in the matter.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

So many things for the Tea Party to tear down, and quickly, after the mid-terms.

The best bet is probably for a conservative controlled House and Senate to change the budget from top-down to bottom-up.

That is, to require constitutional authority for all agencies for their very existence. Unless it is there, the assumption should be that they get NO funding, at all, except for nominal shut down costs.

If they are constitutionally authorized, then each agency will be reviewed and only its constitutional parts approved, skeletonizing those parts acting without authority.

Then, the temporary funding of those unconstitutional parts that would cause a public disaster or unconscionable harm unless they were wound down or replaced.

Enabling acts for the dismissal of “surplus” government employees, as well as defining what, if any, benefits they can keep.

Then separate those agencies that end or are severely downgraded as separate budget bills. Send them to Obama to veto or not, which doesn’t matter, because either way they are effectively unfunded. Give him at least the opportunity to claim credit for ending them.

[sarasota]

I don’t suppose these cards will be used for voting??