Feds Still Pushing “Real ID” Act
by Jeff Davis
The Jew Michael Chertoff, whom Bush placed in charge of “Homeland Security” (paving the way for a dictatorial police state) has thrown down the gauntlet to the last few states to oppose his draconian and thoroughly un-Constitutional “Real ID” program by threatening to refuse to allow American citizens from non-compliant states such as Montana to board a commercial aircraft unless they are in possession of one of Chertoff’s alleged “real” IDs.
Naturally no one points out that if we banned Middle Eastern immigrants, we would have no terror problem. Is the presence of some hairy Middle Eastern rug merchant so important to the economy, that it’s worth the hassle and inconvenience of treating EVERYONE else as if they’re a terrorist every time they fly?
Yahoo News reports: “Homeland security officials on Friday hinted at a possible face-saving deal to end their standoff with a handful of states over new driver’s license rules — a dispute that, left unresolved, could cause big air travel headaches. For weeks, the Homeland Security Department has been headed toward a showdown with some states over a law called Real ID, which would require new security measures for state-issued driver’s licenses. Yet a late Good Friday letter from a top DHS official suggested Washington may be backing away from a messy fight.”
It could be that Chertoff wants to ram this through before he is replaced by whomever Obama decides to appoint. Notice that no one has talked about stopping certain states from giving driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. So us law abiding White folks will have to get new IDs while 20 million illegals slip through the cracks.
Yahoo goes on the say: “South Carolina, Maine and Montana are the only states that have not sought extensions to comply, or already started toward compliance with Real ID, which was passed after the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington. On Friday, the federal agency granted Montana an extension, even though state officials didn’t ask for one and insist they will not adhere to the Real ID law. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told The Associated Press that DHS ‘painted themselves in a corner.’ A fourth state, New Hampshire, has asked to be exempted, but Homeland Security officials have not found that letter legally acceptable, so the Granite State has not received an extension.”
One wonders how the politicians in these states would have reacted had this not been an election year.
Yahoo: “Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff had warned that if holdout states do not send a letter by the end of March seeking an extension, come May, residents of such states will no longer be able to use their driver’s licenses as valid ID to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.”
In essence, what “Real ID” constitutes is a national ID card, snuck in through the back door, disguised as a driver’s license. Chertoff laid out a set of “standardized” requirements that all states would have to meet to issue driver’s licenses. The Feds tried to introduce a national ID document similar to the old Soviet-style internal passport right after 911, but this was before the civil liberties types were cowed into silence. In 2002 and 2003 they managed to shout it down, so the Feds are now falling back on the old standby of having the states do their dirty work for them.
One of the main features of “Real ID” consists of demands for state DMV personnel, doing the work of Federal secret police, to see such things as home mortgage documents, utility bills and rental agreements to ascertain an applicant’s physical home address. The purpose of this is so that when the government wishes to come and take someone away in the wee hours of the night, they know which door to kick in because they have a record of where everyone sleeps at night. Failure to maintain an updated physical address on a driver’s license now carries a prison term, although as part of the Federal government’s “salami slicer” tactics where they slice our rights away thin slice by thin slice.
The fact that all of this is in direct defiance of the Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution hasn’t even been seriously mentioned in the media or in the discussion over “Real ID.” Previous generations of Americans foolishly allowed criminal politicians to introduce an income tax which was a serious invasion of privacy (as well as wholesale theft). The government should NOT be allowed to know how much Americans make each year or where they live. But now, thanks to Bush and Chertoff, they’re making it a crime if you don’t tell Big Brother where you live. Nothing good can come from this.