New ID rules may complicate air travel

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080112/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/secure_driver_s_licenses
“The May 11, 2008 deadline is an effort to get states to begin phasing in the REAL ID program. Citizens born after Dec. 1, 1964, would have six years to get a new license; older Americans would have until 2017.”

“Chertoff said that for any state which doesn't seek such a waiver by May, residents of that state will have to use a passport or certain types of federal border-crossing cards if they want to avoid a vigorous secondary screening at airport security.”
Some Americans will have to carry a passport to fly INSIDE their OWN COUNTRY! And be subject to vigorous screening by airport security. We are crossing borders inside our own country. After the planes they will require ID to travel by train, bus, and car. Excuse me SIR, but I do not have my papers!

This silliness will not end until Congress stops declaring our National State of emergency and in effect putting an end to the fantasy war on terror.

Tivana

Dear Friends of Liberty,

Here is an update on an aspect of our liberty I want to pass along – ID cards. Because of the uproar of several states the plans to implement a national ID card have slowed but not stopped. These plans to ID everybody in America are moving forward but against the grain of 17 states that oppose these plans. Our Washington state is one of the six states in favor of the ID cards.

Good going America, keep up the resistance, keep our liberties alive, NO National or REAL ID systems. Stop the policies then dissolve the agency – this would be the Department of Homeland Security agency (what a bogus name).
US unveils new driver's license rules
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/secure_driver_s_licenses
this is not about immigration, nor about preventing terrorism – these ID cards have NOTHING to do with making our lives safer BUT they have everything to do about access to a corrupted system that is gaining more and more control over our lives
Cities have begun issuing ID cards to allow or deny access to basic city services such as banking, government aid, libraries, and aid to the homeless and the hungry. If Americans allow the REAL ID card law to be implemented, in the coming years Americans will need this card to board airplanes, access government buildings, or even stadiums.

here is another story on the topic by EPIC

http://epic.org/privacy/id-cards/
Homeland Security Expected To Release REAL ID Regulations on Friday. EPIC has learned that the Department of Homeland Security will release the final regulations for REAL ID tomorrow at noon ET. The proposal for a federally mandated national identification system has been widely criticized. EPIC and others (pdf) have detailed security and privacy problems (pdf) with the plan. A coalition of organizations urged the Homeland Security agency to withdraw the proposal. Seventeen states formally opposed REAL ID, and Congress is considering legislation that would repeal the plan. The original deadline for implementation was 2008, but DHS has pushed it back to 2013, in part, because of public opposition. (January. 10)

Then there is the National ID card

US National ID Cards by May 2008
http://fairpoint.net/~icpchad/editorscorner01302007.htm
There are two programs coming that you need to be aware of --- The National ID card and the REAL ID card. I see them as two different attacks upon our freedom with the same goals – allowance or denial of access to a system that sustains our lives. Your abeyance to the laws of this system will be your profile, will be your ticket in or out. Bush signed the National ID card into law on 06-06-2006.

Tivana

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