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On June 13, 2010, we had the privilege of being on the Jim Guest Radio Show. Jim is a Missouri Representative that strongly opposes REAL ID.
This is why REAL ID fails to prevent terrorism, you can use/steal
someone else's driver license and buy tickets to fly as them:
Phillyburbs.com, May 21, 2010
Excerpt:
...But Sweeten allegedly lied, saying she'd need Jenkinson's driver's
license to "roll over" the account, according to the indictment.
She called 911 with the false carjacking, used
Jenkinson's license to
buy airplane tickets from Philadelphia to Orlando, and she and
her
daughter spent two days at a five-star hotel in Disney World before
federal, county and local police caught up with her and took her into
custody on charges she lied about the carjacking and had stolen
Jenkinson's identity.
Tampa Bay Online, May 19, 2010
Excerpt-
Without repeating our entire conversation — as incredulous as it was —
here's the problem in a nutshell.
Pat doesn't have a copy of the license she was issued in Oregon, when
she married a guy named Killgore, who is now dead.
She said the dude took off after a couple of years, leaving her to
raise their two small children. So she filed for divorce and paid $10 a
week "forever" to be rid of him.
In 1958, she wed a man with the last name of Rockwell and
remained married to him for more than 40 years.
Sounds simple enough … Not!
Thanks to a law called the Real ID Act
of 2005, which was enacted in May 2008 (note- REAL ID enacted in May 2005, the companion Florida law was enacted in
2008), the Department
of Homeland Security is now requiring we prove our American
citizenship by connecting all our identity dots from A to Z.
Marriages, divorces, adoptions and
the like all enter into the equation.
According to the law, we can no longer renew our driver's license,
fly or enter a federal building without a new form of identification
called a Real ID.
My neighbor
is 82 years old, and I'm pretty sure she's not a terrorist — or an
identity thief. She can't even remember the dates of her first marriage
or divorce, let alone produce documentation on them. She called the
county where the marriage took place and gave an estimate but was told
it didn't have records going back that far.
This comment to the above story is yet more evidence of how bad this law is:
Posted by (Romany) on
05/19/2010 at 02:05 pm.
Excerpt:
Outside the Fort Lauderdale branch of the Department of Motor Vehicles
on Thursday, I found a hot and bothered group snaked in line around a
dismal strip mall. They clutched birth certificates, passports,
citizenship diplomas, Social Security cards, paystubs, FPL bills, phone
bills and bank statements.
All to get a driver's license.
"This is my fifth trip," said Rita Miller, whose purse was stolen last
month.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Editorial, February 21, 2010:
Excerpt:
The more we learn about new driver's license
documentation
requirements, the less there is to like.
In a Tuesday editorial we
wrote of the difficulties that people (especially the elderly) face in
meeting the requirements as they try to renew or update their license.
Since then, readers have
brought to our attention even more problems with the rules.
For instance, married women and
widows are at a disadvantage, simply because their name is no longer the
same as what is on their birth certificate. Many need to bring official
marriage licenses -- along with all the other required documentation --
when they go to the driver's license agency. Gainesville Guardian, March 25, 2010
Summary- The problems worsened when a federal law (this would be the REAL ID Act) required states to have new issuing practices in place by mid-2011.
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Floridians Against REAL ID radio interview- The Jim Guest Radio Show on June 13, 2010:
Mark Lerner of the Stop REAL ID Coalition's April 2011 paper on REAL ID and other issues we face in our current times.
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