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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
by James W.
Harris
REAL ID Victory! Alaska Becomes 9th State to Reject REAL ID
The growing grassroots movement to stop the government's Orwellian
REAL ID
national ID scheme just won another major victory.
In late May, a bill passed by the Alaska state legislature to prevent
the state
from funding the federal REAL ID Act became law.
Thus far, 19 states have passed either resolutions or statutes
against the
program.
Nine -- now including Alaska -- have rejected REAL ID
completely.
REAL ID -- as we've covered in previous issues -- is a police-state
federal
mandate that would force a national ID card on all Americans by
standardizing
state drivers licenses and loading them with sensitive personal
information.
This information would be held in massive databases, which would make
it easy
to routinely track, monitor, and regulate the movements and
activities of all
citizens.
The REAL ID card could be required to do almost anything in
America:
get a job, fly, buy over-the-counter medicine, enter a federal
building, and
more.
(For more on REAL ID, see this previous Liberator Online:
http://www. theadvocates. org/liberator/vol-13-num-3. html )
REAL ID opponents cheered Alaska.
"Alaska has joined a growing nationwide movement against REAL ID,"
said Barry
Steinhardt, director of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Program.
"The
[REAL ID]
act was hastily passed by Congress without receiving the proper
assessment of
cost and implementation and is now being forced on the states by
administration
officials who will not be around in 2017, when final implementation is
projected to occur.
"
Steinhardt added, "By allowing this vital legislation to become law,
[Alaska]
Governor Palin has opened the door for other governors to do the same.
"
Let's hope they do!
(Source: ACLU
http://www. aclu. org/privacy/gen/35470prs20080529. html )
