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POPSAlaska Becomes 9th State to Outlaw REAL ID Tyrannical federal legislation sparked another Civil War against federal despotism, and the states are seceding from REAL ID continually, essentially using the doctrine of Nullification based upon the 10th amendment of the Constitution. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Any state that respects the Constitution and freedom for its citizens will do the same.
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POPSLamar Alexander R-Tenn Sees Chance To Nix Real ID Act
“Congress created Real ID, and they can do away with Real ID,” said Jim Harper, director of information policy studies at the Cato Institute and the author of a book on identification laws and technology. “Not a single state is going to be in compliance with the law by May, and the program has been failing from the start.” Citing the law’s unfunded costs and big-government approach, Alexander told Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at a March 4 subcommittee meeting about his plans for the amendment. Like many critics, one of Alexander’s biggest concerns is cost. He points out that while some estimates of the implementation of Real ID come to $4 billion, federal officials have appropriated only $60 million and distributed only $6 million. At least 19 states have passed measures stating their opposition. “If you pass a bill without hearings, you’re going to miss stuff. And the authors of Real ID missed a lot,” Harper, of the Cato Institute said.
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POPSFBI Admits Spying on Innocent Americans Using "national intelligence letters" from the so-called USA PATRIOT ACT. You are no longer a free citizen protected by the Constitution, but a criminal or terrorist suspect. Note how "credit reports...phone records...internet traffic" are among things admitted to. Your credit report has your entire financial and life history on it. This is why REAL ID must be resisted entirely, as well as the extra-constitutional Gestapo-patterned Office of Homeland Security. The founders always warned that "necessity" is the tyrant's plea, the usual justification for breaking constitutional restraints on government.
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POPSThis is for real!!! This should make you sick. I know it's not new news but the fact remains that this ID is the most intrusive scheme that you will likely have to deal with for the rest of your life. Let's continue to fight for our rights!!!
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POPS12 Steps To Election Honesty Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of culture and communications at New York University. He’s also a man on a mission: to make the case for electoral reform. Miller climbs into the minutiae of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections-voter caging in Florida, ballot stickers in Ohio, and lots of unseemly details in between. His argument has been published as “Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform in 2005”. In the end, he tells us that notwithstanding the reassurances of the mainstream media, we have no reason to be confident in the formally reported results of those two elections.
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POPS"Real ID" rejected by states Schweitzer wants Congress to step up and pass alternative legislation that would stop Real ID and re-instate a commission that was working on driver's license rules before the REAL ID Act was slipped into must-pass defense legislation in 2005. That legislation assigned DHS the task of setting the rules single-handedly. Our "leaders" are worse than children - if their rules are rejected, they will apply them to more & more things, like cough medicine & unemployment eligibility. The stirrings of another civil war?
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POPSGutting REAL ID Why would having verified ID, available only to people who are legally allowed in the United States, be a problem? Well to Democrat Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester - it seems that it might somehow affect their voting base. Although how illegals get to vote is another question entirely.
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POPSThe Real ID Act: This reminds me of scenes from old movies depicting Nazi Germany and the Gestapo. At a checkpoint, a gaurd says, "Sir, may I please see your papers." They are carrying guns and stationed at just one out of hundreds of checkpoints manned throughout Nazi Germany to keep track of EVERYONE. The Introduction of a National I.D. card will be similar. You will have an I.D. no. and all kinds of info about you will be filed under that no. and linked in a national database. The modern day Gestapo. I'm probably raising the eyebows of FBI right now for mentioning Gestapo in this clip. They're probably watching. They have the power to do so secretly.
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POPSStop Real ID The Real ID Act of 2005 turns our state driver’s licenses into a national ID card, costs over $20 billion dollars, infringes privacy, and imposes major burdens on taxpayers, anybody renewing a driver's license, seniors, immigrants, transgender people, and state governments – while doing nothing to protect against terrorism. A huge coalition is fighting Real ID at the state and national level -- and we need your help.
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POPSStates Act To Repeal REAL ID I hope the USA can shift course, state after state, insist on doing better than (so-called) REAL ID. Almost anything would be better than REAL ID as it is written in the current law (in my opinion). Real ID looks more like false security and a sack of troubles rather than part of the tool bag we could gather of new, ingenious, and creative solutions to homeland security or our war on terror.
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POPS"Real ID" is REAL NIGHTMARE! This article scared me badly! I am glad to say that I am from one of the states (WY) that is fighting this already. The rest of you better be writing your legislators on this issue!
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