We need to defeat the Real ID and we have only until May 11th of this year to keep the states out of participation. Despite what you have heard little has been done until recently to ensure that states pass the legislation that stops the Real ID for their citizens. Now, that effort is in fast forward.
The impact of the Real ID is worse than anything you ever heard and billions in profits to the most corrupt corporations in America are riding on its implementation using biometrics. Your DNA, your eye scan, your finger prints and your medical records will become, effectively, the property of not just one government agency but all agencies, American and global. More, they will be sold to corporations. Go to the site for Stop the Real ID Coalition . This is a threat Americans need to understand.
You did not hear about this for the same reason Congress didn't. The details were buried in the footnotes.
The fast forward for stopping the Real ID comes in the form of a very small group of determined individuals.
Mark Lerner, the founder of Real ID Coalition, is doing a great job getting states to pass the needed legislation barring their participation. We need 20 states to ensure it cannot be carried out. Mark is now working his way through the state legislatures and they are finally finding out the truth and passing the needed legislation. Mark and the coalition people are straight ahead kind of folks and their information is right on and factual. Homeland Insecurity hates that.
You can help. The first way is to donate, and we really need the money first just to keep Mark on the road and second to pay for security. You will see why in a moment. You can also replicate the actions of Freedom Man himself, Ernie Hancock who, as always, took his own kind of action.
Ernie had tickets for not properly recycling printed up. These looked like the real thing; lots of check off boxes with the infractions of the recipient clearly noted. But the phone number went to a newspaper in Phoenix. 40 of the tickets were placed on trashcans. That paper changed its phone number. The url on the ticket took you to a very special and entirely accurate site, Arizona Tip Hotline. Ernie wonders what would have happened if they had used more than 40 of the tickets. He has thousands and Ernie has not yet begun to make the powers that be in Arizona unhappy.
The phones at city hall lit up and have stayed lit. The people are starting to understand the Real ID. Now we need to get the model legislation written by Mark to those in the Arizona legislature. We also need to get Mark there to hammer home the message in the language legislators best understand.
Ernie gets the attention of the public and the establishment; Mark bats clean up, pulling the state back from the edge of fascism towards freedom.
Today in Oklahoma Mark finished his presentation to various state senators and left. Fifteen minutes later an outraged representative of Homeland Insecurity, reportedly very highly placed, whatever that means, raged into the office of the senator who is sponsoring the bill and demanded that it be defeated and that the Real ID be accepted. Or Else. It seems that the powers that be really, really, want to Real ID. The guy probably bought stock in biometrics.
So tomorrow morning Mark will be meeting this same puffed up bureaucrat for the best two falls out of three before he addresses the whole Senate at 9am. It is amazing how important these adherents to the Uniform Fascism Theory think they are. Stay tuned for more developments.
Ernie said he would be delighted to have you use the full content of his innovative and informative site for your state. This is especially effective in the capitol in the weeks before Mark arrives. This is cheap and will get the panties of the Federal Homeland Insecurity establishment in a knot. Nothing flusters Mark, he is determined.
Ernie is sending me the jpeg for the ticket and I will send it on after this email so you have all that is necessary. I will also post it on my blogsite, How the NeoCons Stole Freedom.
The authorities know exactly who Ernie is and they just groan. Even Homeland Insecurity is scared of Ernie. You could get that kind of reputation, too. Sometimes the Revolution is more fun than is legal today and this is one of those times.
Get Revolutionary. Stop the Real ID in your state!
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Reader Comments:
Posted By: World
Date: 2008-02-13 08:49:40
I still don't quite get the full ramifications of this proposal. I use a passport to cross a border already. I have a state ID at all times on me. I need my state ID to take a plane trip. What difference is it if it is a national ID. To be honest, the state IDs are all so dissimilar that it is easy to pass one off as fake - I couldn't pick a real North Dakota drivers license from 5 fakes. I am a law abiding citizen. What harm is there in carrying a national ID card. Your points about fingerprinting (they already do that) and retinal scanning (no differnt in my opinion) make me scratch my head. There is no way to get your medical information on a card either - most hospitals cannot afford electronic medical record systems, let alone a single system that can interact with others. Even if you had that on your card, it would be more likely to save your life than to harm it. I beg you. Someone make a logical case against the National ID for me.
Posted By: MikeFoster
Date: 2008-02-13 15:17:17
The arguments for the REAL ID Act seem to only focus on the idea of a National ID, but the REAL ID Act is much more than just a National ID. Melinda's article is not discussing the pros and cons of a National ID. It is a report on efforts to educate State legislatures on the details of the REAL ID Act.
The REAL ID Act passed in 2005 as a rider on a military spending bill. The date for full State compliance has been pushed forward several times. Some States have passed resolutions against implementing the REAL ID Act, but some States are already implementing it.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act
Posted By: Maggie
Date: 2008-02-13 18:29:36
The horrendous thing about it is the RFID chip embedded in the cards. I don't need Big Brother tracking me around wherever I go and I'm not tolerating it. There is no way that I will get this thing and they can't make me get it. They'll have to take me out first.