Tenn. Joins List of States Opposing Real ID
By Allan Holmes | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 | 02:53 PM
By Allan Holmes | Tuesday, June 12, 2007 | 02:53 PM
The list of states rebelling against the Real ID Act continues to increase. The Tennessee legislature last night voted to not comply with the Real ID Act of 2005 unless it is fully funded, according to a press release issued today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee.
Tennessee becomes the 16th state to pass a resolution saying it will not comply with the law because the act requires each state to spend millions of dollars on upgrading computer systems to meet the law's requirements, which include adding security features to driver's licenses such as bar codes and digital photographs to make it harder to obtain a fraudulent driver's license. The federal government will eventually require that Americans use the new licenses to gain entry to federal buildings, nuclear power plants and commercial airlines.
The resolution "urges the Tennessee congressional delegation to support measures to repeal the Real ID Act, and states that 'there be no implementation of the Real ID Act until full funding is provided by the federal government,'" according to the ACLU press release.
Comments
The State of Tennessee's only mistake in refusing to endorse the Fascist Real ID Act is their blaming the expense of meeting the requirements to implement this Big Brother Act rather than the truth: This is an Act designed to take our liberty; it is a method of identifying critics of our increasingly Fascist government who through this Act will be among the first to be arrested when the time is right - and then all those Americans who went on the wrong web site or ordered the wrong book(s), etc. This Act is a dead giveaway of the Neocon agenda - to enslave its people. Sounds like SciFi, like a conspiracy theorists invention - and don't we wish it were that and not what is really is.
Tomme Rodrigues | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 | 05:36 PMThe feds will have to kill me before I carry a chipped card required for a bank account...AGAINST my RELIGION!!!
†om | Thursday, January 31, 2008 | 02:01 PMId really like Jerry Powers to explain to me what benefits the REAL ID Act has to offer Americans because I've researched it and haven't found one. It's a rediculous idea that is outrageously expensive, extremely invasive and down right pointless. If and when we are all forced to obtain a Real ID the DMV will require us to hand over information such as social security cards, birth certificates and drivers licenses after which our information will be entered into a natiowide database that will be open to any and all DMV workers. please explain to me how hundreds of employees knowing my personal information is securing me Jerry Powers?? I think you need to educate yourself on the REAL issues the Real Id will bring upon Americans and decide whether or not it really is securing anything.
Natalie | Thursday, November 01, 2007 | 12:15 PMI'm ecstatic that Tennessee so far will refuse to comply BUT not for funding reasons. It should be because it's unconstitutional - plain and simple.
Educate myself Jerry? I don't think so. I can't see the benefit of it in any way shape or form except that the government can find me at all times. NO WAY.. it's not their right. It won't reduce crime OR illegal immigration and if anyone thinks so they are sadly deluding themselves.
Beth | Friday, September 14, 2007 | 11:29 PMMr. Powers ,
If you would like to live in a police state remnant of Nazi Germany I'm sure you'll find plenty of REAL Americans who would be more than happy to buy you a plane ticket.
Good for Tennessee! This so-called Real ID law should be rejected by every American! I am an American, born and bred, and I am completely against the idea of my own country's government actually planning to enslave me. Why a card? Why not a neck ring, or earrings? Hey, why not just shackle our ankles?
LJS | Monday, August 20, 2007 | 04:31 PMI am glad to hear that Tenn. has a brain in this area, I am moving to Tenn. to get away from my state which is allowing the Federal gov. to trample on my constitutional rights. Yet should Tenn. ever decide to allow this injustice to be implemented I and my family will once again move to enjoy our freedoms and liberties. Anyone whom thinks this is a good Idea really needs a head check, no offence intended but you really need a history lesson on WWII and the German gov. this is almost identical to what Hitler done way back then.
Michael | Sunday, August 19, 2007 | 06:13 PM......
Damn skippy states have a right to keep their citizens free! The federal govt. has no place giving me a card with an RFID chip in it which can track my geographical location! God save the republic!
Articles of Confederation | Friday, August 17, 2007 | 07:17 AMJerry, you're a tool.
The REAL ID Card would, by the feds' own admission, grant them (US Fed Govt) the ability to control whether or not each one of us is "allowed" to work, which would determine whether or not we would be "allowed" to eat, purchase a home, or... well, live. This is a BOLD violation of our rights as protected (supposedly) by our Constitution.
If anything in the history of our age has come close to the whole Biblical foretelling of the "Number of the Beast" scenario, this is it. Along with the microchip implants, this is about as Orwellian as it gets. The fact that the major media outlets haven't said a peep about any of this only goes to bolster the evidence that we are in a very dangerous time in our country's history right now.
For you to attempt to water it down and deflect people's attention to the reality of this situation only further incriminates you as an enemy of liberty. Here's hoping enough people see through your type of smoke. The future of our individual rights depends on it.
James Hubble | Sunday, August 12, 2007 | 04:56 PMThis act along with both Patriot Acts and the implementation of the anti-terror bill serve as the foundation for the American Gestapo, which is the infrastructure built to imprison U.S. citizens' freedoms and liberties.
G.W. | Saturday, June 23, 2007 | 01:40 AMNational ID card disguised as a Driver License. Why don't they just say that and be done with it?
Bob H. | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | 12:45 AMI am very sorry to hear of my home states' refusal to comply with the Federal Real ID Act. This displays an ineptitude toward providing the citizens of Tennessee with the most secure and fraud proof form of identification available today. Insofar as the ACLU is concerned, they have missed the boat entirely on the REAL ID Act, they have made totally uneducated and uninformed statements on this issue, which have no validation. Study the benefits and core meaning of the REAL ID Act, rather than present yourself as knowledgeable, which you are not in this case. I would welcome the opportunity to educate you. Jerry Powers
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