KG4JYD
06-05-2008, 11:48 PM
REAL ID Victory! Alaska 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 (https://webmail.cumulus.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-13-num-3.html) )
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 (https://webmail.cumulus.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-13-num-3.html) )