CBSNewsOnline—January 11, 2008
—Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff speaks to CBS
News' Bob Orr about the REAL ID Act:
CampaignForLibertyMI—May 20, 2010
—Campaign for Liberty and Gun Owners of America hosted a
symposium on the dangers of National ID to gun owners and the privacy of
all Americans with Mark Lerner the foremost expert on Biometric ID in
the nation. (video available in high definition on YouTube)
artbell—February 07, 2007
—CNN VIDEO -
Congressman James Sensenbrenner defends his identification system, known as REAL ID:
jaralero—March 14, 2008
—(US House of Representatives - February 10, 2005) Congressman
Ron Paul opposes a National ID. Starting on May 11, 2008, Americans will
need a federally approved, "machine readable" ID card.
(Transcript)
...With the utmost sincerity and a deep
conviction, I am quite confident that this bill, if you vote for it, you
will be voting for a national ID card. I know some will argue against
that and they say this is voluntary, but it really cannot be voluntary.
If a State opts out, nobody is going to accept their driver's license.
So this is not voluntary.
As a matter of fact, even the House
Republican Conference, which sent a statement around with some points
about this bill, said "the Federal Government should set standards for
the issuance of birth certificates and sources of identification such as
driver's licenses."
This is nationalization of all
identification. It will be the confirmation of the notion that we will
be carrying our papers.
As a matter of fact, I think it might be
worse than just carrying our papers and showing our papers, because in
this bill there are no limitations as to the information that may be
placed on this identification card. There are minimum standards, but no
maximum limitations.
The Secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security can add anything it wants. So if they would like to put on our
driver's license that you belong to a pro-gun group, it may well become
mandatory, because there may be an administration some day that might
like to have that information.
But there is no limitation as far
as biometrics and there is no limitation as far as radio frequency
identification. That technology is already available and being used on
our passports. This means that you do not have to show your papers. All
you have to do is walk by somebody that has a radio frequency ability to
read your passport or read your driver's license. There is no
limitation as to what they can put on these documents.
This bill
also allows the definition of "terrorism" to be re-defined. There are
no limitations.
In many ways I understand how well intentioned
this is, but to me it is sort of like the gun issue. Conservatives
always know that you do not register guns, that is just terrible,
because the criminals will not register their guns. But what are we
doing with this bill? We are registering all the American people, and
your goal is to register the criminals and the thugs and the terrorists.
Well, why does a terrorist need a driver's license? They can
just steal a car or steal an airplane or steal a bus or whatever they
want to do. So you are registering all the American people because you
are looking for a terrorist, and all the terrorist is going to do is
avoid the law. But we all, the American people, will have to obey the
law. If we do not, we go to prison.
southsidetokyo—January 12, 2008
—Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff unveils a plan that
would require U.S. citizens to show a state-issued driver's licenses for
boarding a commercial flight.
Michael Chertoff says only three categories of people will be unhappy about secured driver licenses:
1) Terrorists,
2) Illegal immigrants, and
3) Con men
What about the millions of us that can still read & understand our Constitution that don't fall into any of the above categories or those of us that don't want to put our identities at further risk?
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