Liberty Maven

Which presidential candidate is speaking out for our rights and against the heinous Real ID Act?  Bob Barr, of course.

Over at CrazyForLiberty.com, Doug Craig quotes Barr:

“The Real ID Act establishes a new and privacy-invasive national ID card program.  By forcing states to standardize their driver’s licenses and creating a vast national data base of private information on the citizenry, the law establishes through the back door something Americans would never have accepted directly—a National Identification Card….There was no open and honest vote on Real ID.  The mandate was slipped into a supplemental appropriations bill, discouraging any real debate over the issue.”

“Creating anything close to a national ID card threatens Americans’ basic civil liberties and privacy while doing little or nothing to make us more secure…  [the legislation] means higher fees, longer lines, and greater inconvenience for Americans getting a driver’s license.  The burden on states, which have to redesign and remake state licenses and include all manner of information on citizens applying for new driver’s licenses, would be extremely high and immensely costly, since they would have to restructure computer databases, security systems, verification measures, and more.”

And of course, there’s the simple fact that all 19 terrorists who took part in the attacks of September 11th had secured drivers licenses with phony documents.  If you think the Real ID will be “tamper-proof” or that any such ID could ever exist, you will drown in your own naivete.

Read the full article here.