U.S.: Your comments on REAL ID needed by Tuesday, 5:00 PM Eastern
CASPIAN
"Your ID, please" is a phrase Americans will be hearing far more often if the Real ID Act is implemented. But with your help today, we can prevent this 'Real Nightmare' from becoming a reality.
The Real ID Act requires every American to have a standardized driver's license – a de facto national ID – to fly on commercial airlines or enter government buildings. Legislation has also been proposed that would make showing a Real ID a requirement for voting, getting a job and obtaining benefits like Medicaid. Real ID will invade privacy, trample religious freedom, and won’t make us any safer.
We need your help by Tuesday, 5:00 PM EST to tell DHS and Congress that Americans reject Real ID.
As required by law, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is accepting comments on its proposed Real ID regulations through Tuesday, May 8th, at 5:00 PM. Anyone in America has the right to submit comments to the government on this proposal.
Please submit your own comments telling DHS and Congress that Real ID is a 'Real Nightmare' that needs to be fixed.
Your comments today will be critical in this debate, as Congress will be looking carefully at the number of comments delivered. Here is how you can submit your comments:
1. Online through the Federal Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov (search for "DHS-2006-0030-0001" and follow the instructions for submitting comments)
2. Fax to 1-866-466-5370. Your fax must state that you are submitting comments in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DHS-2006-0030.
3. Postal Mail sent to Department of Homeland Security;
Attn: NAC 1-12037; Washington, D.C. 20538. Your letter must state that you are submitting comments in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DHS-2006-0030.
For more information about comment submission, visit
http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid/
For more information about Real ID, go to http://www.realnightmare.org
For the ACLU's page on religious opposition to Real ID, go to
http://www.realnightmare.org/opposition/101/
For CASPIAN's New Hampshire Anti-REAL ID page, go to
http://www.granitestateid.com
For a video of the NH rally opposing REAL ID (including excerpts from my speech) see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeE3iB90KeE
Writing your Comments: We've posted a number of talking points below to help you craft your letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You can raise one or all of these issues, but please use your own language. If you can't write a carefully crafted letter, don't worry. Even a short comment - "I don't want REAL ID!" will be counted and add you to the ranks of the opposition. Doing something, however small, is better than doing nothing.
Please take a minute and file a comment for your future and your liberty.
In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
(1) (877) 287-5854, kma@spychips.com
Host of "Uncovering the Truth" Radio Show
We the People Radio Network, M-F 10AM-12PM EST
http://www.wtprn.com
Co-author of "SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government
Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID"
http://www.spychips.com // http://www.nocards.org
Bio online at: http://www.spychips.com/media/katherine-albrecht.html
Talking Points on REAL ID
President Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law last year, turning your state driver's license into a de facto national ID card. You will have to show it to enter a federal building, open a bank account, or board a plane. Here are just a few of the reasons why REAL ID is a terrible idea.
The REAL ID means long lines and more money from you
REAL ID creates a NATIONWIDE database that will make your personal information (photo, birth date, SSN, home address, driving record, biometric data, etc.) available to the federal government -- and every other state. This database will be a gold mine for identity thieves and junk marketers. (Especially relevant since California DMV workers have been arrested for making bogus ID's out of real drivers' information — and giving them to criminals.)
The REAL ID will create a bureaucratic nightmare
REAL ID means the entire bureaucratic hassle of establishing your identity — to the satisfaction of the federal government — is shifted to your local DMV. Just to renew your license, you'll have to scrounge up a long list of identity documents. Then, after wasting hours and money getting the paperwork, you can expect to wait in long lines just to update your driver's license. You can expect increased fees to pay for all that extra work, too.
REAL ID will cost a fortune
REAL ID is an unfunded mandate. It won't be cheap to create a huge government bureaucracy to collect, verify, and share massive amounts of personal data. Experts estimate that REAL ID compliance will cost Pennsylvania $85 million, Washington state over $45 million annually for several years, and Virginia could pay up to $169 million, plus $63 million a year after that. The burden of paying for all of this will fall on citizens and drivers through higher taxes and fees.
REAL ID will destroy your hard-won privacy protections
Presently, our drivers license information is held in our states of residence, where many states lawmakers have implemented measures to ensure that data will not be sold to marketers or fall prey to abuse. The federal government wants to take these protections away from us, forcing us to share our photos and home addresses with everyone else in the system. This is particularly troubling considering that several states have sold drivers license photos to marketers in the past.
REAL ID will violate many people's religious beliefs
Religious organizations and members of various religions from Native Americans to Amish to mainstream Christians oppose Real ID due to its potential impact on their religious freedom. Many have objected to Real ID because they believe it represents significant step toward the modern day incarnation of the "Mark of the Beast," prophesied in the Book of Revelation: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:16). The Real ID Act is a direct attack on the beliefs of these Americans. For more on religious opposition, see the ACLU's website here:
http://www.realnightmare.org/opposition/101/
National ID is the mark of a Police State
America has always been a free country. This is not a totalitarian regime where authorities can demand "Your papers, please!" of citizens. The United States is one of the last strongholds of freedom in the world. Let's put a stop to the encroaching police state. If we don't stand up for our rights, who will?
CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket loyalty cards and other retail surveillance
schemes since 1999
http://www.spychips.com
http://www.nocards.org
You're welcome to duplicate and distribute this message to others who may find it of interest.
CASPIAN
"Your ID, please" is a phrase Americans will be hearing far more often if the Real ID Act is implemented. But with your help today, we can prevent this 'Real Nightmare' from becoming a reality.
The Real ID Act requires every American to have a standardized driver's license – a de facto national ID – to fly on commercial airlines or enter government buildings. Legislation has also been proposed that would make showing a Real ID a requirement for voting, getting a job and obtaining benefits like Medicaid. Real ID will invade privacy, trample religious freedom, and won’t make us any safer.
We need your help by Tuesday, 5:00 PM EST to tell DHS and Congress that Americans reject Real ID.
As required by law, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is accepting comments on its proposed Real ID regulations through Tuesday, May 8th, at 5:00 PM. Anyone in America has the right to submit comments to the government on this proposal.
Please submit your own comments telling DHS and Congress that Real ID is a 'Real Nightmare' that needs to be fixed.
Your comments today will be critical in this debate, as Congress will be looking carefully at the number of comments delivered. Here is how you can submit your comments:
1. Online through the Federal Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov (search for "DHS-2006-0030-0001" and follow the instructions for submitting comments)
2. Fax to 1-866-466-5370. Your fax must state that you are submitting comments in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DHS-2006-0030.
3. Postal Mail sent to Department of Homeland Security;
Attn: NAC 1-12037; Washington, D.C. 20538. Your letter must state that you are submitting comments in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking DHS-2006-0030.
For more information about comment submission, visit
http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid/
For more information about Real ID, go to http://www.realnightmare.org
For the ACLU's page on religious opposition to Real ID, go to
http://www.realnightmare.org/opposition/101/
For CASPIAN's New Hampshire Anti-REAL ID page, go to
http://www.granitestateid.com
For a video of the NH rally opposing REAL ID (including excerpts from my speech) see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeE3iB90KeE
Writing your Comments: We've posted a number of talking points below to help you craft your letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You can raise one or all of these issues, but please use your own language. If you can't write a carefully crafted letter, don't worry. Even a short comment - "I don't want REAL ID!" will be counted and add you to the ranks of the opposition. Doing something, however small, is better than doing nothing.
Please take a minute and file a comment for your future and your liberty.
In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
(1) (877) 287-5854, kma@spychips.com
Host of "Uncovering the Truth" Radio Show
We the People Radio Network, M-F 10AM-12PM EST
http://www.wtprn.com
Co-author of "SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government
Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID"
http://www.spychips.com // http://www.nocards.org
Bio online at: http://www.spychips.com/media/katherine-albrecht.html
Talking Points on REAL ID
President Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law last year, turning your state driver's license into a de facto national ID card. You will have to show it to enter a federal building, open a bank account, or board a plane. Here are just a few of the reasons why REAL ID is a terrible idea.
The REAL ID means long lines and more money from you
REAL ID creates a NATIONWIDE database that will make your personal information (photo, birth date, SSN, home address, driving record, biometric data, etc.) available to the federal government -- and every other state. This database will be a gold mine for identity thieves and junk marketers. (Especially relevant since California DMV workers have been arrested for making bogus ID's out of real drivers' information — and giving them to criminals.)
The REAL ID will create a bureaucratic nightmare
REAL ID means the entire bureaucratic hassle of establishing your identity — to the satisfaction of the federal government — is shifted to your local DMV. Just to renew your license, you'll have to scrounge up a long list of identity documents. Then, after wasting hours and money getting the paperwork, you can expect to wait in long lines just to update your driver's license. You can expect increased fees to pay for all that extra work, too.
REAL ID will cost a fortune
REAL ID is an unfunded mandate. It won't be cheap to create a huge government bureaucracy to collect, verify, and share massive amounts of personal data. Experts estimate that REAL ID compliance will cost Pennsylvania $85 million, Washington state over $45 million annually for several years, and Virginia could pay up to $169 million, plus $63 million a year after that. The burden of paying for all of this will fall on citizens and drivers through higher taxes and fees.
REAL ID will destroy your hard-won privacy protections
Presently, our drivers license information is held in our states of residence, where many states lawmakers have implemented measures to ensure that data will not be sold to marketers or fall prey to abuse. The federal government wants to take these protections away from us, forcing us to share our photos and home addresses with everyone else in the system. This is particularly troubling considering that several states have sold drivers license photos to marketers in the past.
REAL ID will violate many people's religious beliefs
Religious organizations and members of various religions from Native Americans to Amish to mainstream Christians oppose Real ID due to its potential impact on their religious freedom. Many have objected to Real ID because they believe it represents significant step toward the modern day incarnation of the "Mark of the Beast," prophesied in the Book of Revelation: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Revelation 13:16). The Real ID Act is a direct attack on the beliefs of these Americans. For more on religious opposition, see the ACLU's website here:
http://www.realnightmare.org/opposition/101/
National ID is the mark of a Police State
America has always been a free country. This is not a totalitarian regime where authorities can demand "Your papers, please!" of citizens. The United States is one of the last strongholds of freedom in the world. Let's put a stop to the encroaching police state. If we don't stand up for our rights, who will?
CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket loyalty cards and other retail surveillance
schemes since 1999
http://www.spychips.com
http://www.nocards.org
You're welcome to duplicate and distribute this message to others who may find it of interest.