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REAL ID Is A Threat To Personal Liberty


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Make no mistake about it, the "new" rules for driver's licenses issued today by Der Dept.Of Homeland Security will have all driver's licenses now becoming national ID cards and you will have no privacy. You can also then be pulled over by a police car that just doesn't like the way you look and told to produce this card. If you can't, they can take you in. And in the longrun it will do nothing to keep us safer because a terrorist will now know how to get around it. But of course, that isn't important... Only that you give into the FEAR in order to throw all logic and reason out and conform. I fear we have allowed our country to slip even further away from us with the initiaiton of this act, which is why states such as Maine have been standing up to it and many asking for the REAL ID act to be repealed. However, once again Americans are being pushed into compliance with fear and will of course blindly conform to the state's wishes to turn this country into a police state. Papieren bitte? What's next, RFID chips implanted in them to monitor our movements?
JanforGore

7 responses // REAL ID Is A Threat To Personal Liberty

  • I don't really understand...what is wrong with the current driver's license we all have? Doesn't the REAL ID contain the same information? How is this supposed to benefit us? Sounds like another useless proposition by our wonderful administration.
    Agent_Scully
  • http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/01/maine-rejects-real-id

    Maine and 11 other states have voiced opposition to this blatant attempt to take away our personal freedoms.This accomplishes nothing but finally beginning the phase of the plan to have national Id cards hooked up to a national datebase for purposes of surveillance. In essence, the Police State they have been planning for years.
    JanforGore
  • you know, you tell some people that the country is tightening its leash a little too tight on our freedoms in the name of "safety" and they can sometimes look at you like you're so paranoid. but then... laws and acts like this continue to be pushed and it makes me wonder. at what point do you say.... it's not paranoia. it's real. it's scary. and it needs to stop. how does a government go from being your protector and voice to an oppressive entity? with baby steps. and this is just another step in a bad direction.
    m_squared
  • In the words attributed to Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."///////
    That says it all.
    JanforGore
  • Indiana is now apealing its voter ID law in the supreme court. A decision will change this for pro or con. Good lord don't let my state be the begining of the police state.
    ocanada
  • well the really scary part about all of this is that big corporations like Exxon Mobil have already started implanting chips into their speedpasses. These are there to record everywhere you use that keychain, as well as what you are buying. By 2012, there are supposed to be chip like mechanisms in almost every card you carry, as well as any IDs. Scary thought all around, isn't it?
    lmbright
  • Actually the RFID chip thing is what they're already starting to implement in pass ports and Wal-mart is planning on placing them in a great deal or all of their products.
    Narijima

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