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Those who hoped the second Trump Administration would reject big spending, war, and restrictions on liberty continue to be disappointed. A new disappointment came when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced her department would in May begin enforcing the REAL ID law.
Passed in 2005, the REAL ID Act created federal standards for driver’s licenses. The law requires everyone applying for a driver’s license to provide the DMV with his social security number, proof of legal residence, and two proofs of his home address. The REAL ID Act allows the Homeland Security Department to mandate, as it sees fit, the including of addition items in the related government database, including “biometric” identifiers. Biometric identifiers include personal data such as retina scans, fingerprints, and DNA.
People who doubt that this database will be used to violate the rights of US citizens should ask what a present-day J. Edgar Hoover — a former FBI director who was notorious for collecting private information on politicians and other prominent individuals — would do with a database containing personal and even biometric information on American citizens. They should also consider the IRS’s history of targeting presidents’ political opponents. Americans also have the threat of violations of their rights by hackers. The government has a poor track record of protecting data of US citizens.
REAL ID’s supporters deny the law turns state driver’s licenses into national ID cards because states have no mandate to implement REAL ID. However, citizens of any state that refuses to adopt REAL ID will be unable to use their state-issued IDs for boarding an airplane or riding on a train.
Once the initial uses of REAL ID are established, the government will then require REAL ID for other activities. For instance, local transportation authorities may be offered federal funds to implement REAL ID requirements for public transportation. Several pro-Second Amendment organizations oppose REAL ID because it could be used to monitor gun owners. There is nothing in the law prohibiting a future progressive Homeland Security secretary from requiring REAL ID for a firearms purchase. Imposing a REAL ID mandate on gun ownership would further the authoritarian objective of having a database containing the name and address of, and how many and what type of firearms are owned by, every law-abiding gun owner in the country.
REAL ID also menaces health freedom. One of the few victories for liberty during the covid hysteria was the failure of “vaccine passport” schemes to be more widely imposed. These schemes attempted to forbid people from returning to their normal lives unless they proved they were “fully vaccinated” against covid.
REAL ID was marketed as a weapon in the “war on terror.” However, Thomas Massie, the most consistent and courageous defender of liberty in the House of Representatives, pointed out that 9-11 hijackers used passports from their own countries. Rep. Massie wrote, “As long as the pilot’s door is locked and no one has weapons, why do you care that someone who flies has government permission?”
Like most post-9-11 security bills, REAL ID does nothing to protect the American people’s safety. It does, though, do much to endanger their liberty. REAL ID could even be the final piece of the transformation of America into a total surveillance society where government monitors, and thus controls, our actions. Americans who understand the danger must work to get the Trump administration to reverse its position.
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Agree. If the traitorous politicians had actually protected our border and we didn’t have close to 50 million illegals here running wild, there would be no need for a national ID card. The problem is not law abiding citizens but they are always the ones who get the punishment.
Speaking of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
The indispensable nation.
No chance of this ridiculous government overreach being stopped. The days of freedom and liberty are coming to an end. There will be a lot more of these before it’s all over. During covid pizzerias in NYC would ask to see you vaxx card before selling you a slice. It’s going to get worse.
Good column, but I think the following is just wishful thinking on the part of Dr. Paul:
Final? You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! It’s the requirement of cards or electronics for payments (the latter a major thing already in China) that a big part of the transformation. Revelation 13 lays it out.
I have done and do my part to use cash only for small purchases. A Subway sandwich shop just had to “eat” my foot-long tuna (on whole wheat) the other day when they wouldn’t take cash. (I was even nice enough to offer the exact change. Nope? “OK, see ya’”)
It would really help if people would actually make some efforts in real life rather than just writing comments on blogs. Go back to this original topic here. Do you have
an Illuminatia REAL ID? Why? Think on whether you really need it or not. They postponed this thing 3 or 4 times already, and I’d really thought they’d do it again. If there are big messes in airport terminals in a couple of weeks, maybe they’ll back off yet again..
PS: Peak Stupidity has made a niche out of commenting on the cashless society business with the Orwellian Stupidity (I know, evil) topic key. For starters, see. Keep Kash King.
Serves her right.
Well Achmed, you’re not doing enough.
Like everyone else I have my utility bills paid by direct debit electronic transfers.
But for pretty much every other bill up to AUD $1K or more (around USD$650), I use cash every time.
I have never used ‘tap and go’ in my life and rarely use my debit card* or credit card.
I mostly use the credit card for online orders – usually a book purchase.
(*The only time I use the former is to withdraw $2K at a time on each occasion I visit an ATM).
Simply put Achmed, cash for ‘small purchases’ won’t cut it.
Everyone should use cash as much as possible.
(And congratulations on the Subway incident. We should be making our displeasure clear to any retail establishment that aids and abets the ZOG agenda of a cashless society).
Without her Real ID, will The Noem be able to take a cab?
Will hitchhiking be allowed without the Real ID? Walking?
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There is no need for a national ID card, period. The initial congressional Real ID act was part and parcel with the Orwellian-named “Patriot Act” of the Bush administration. Like the Patriot Act it was advertised as a protection against terrorists, and likewise it will be turned inward towards Americans.
Forget about migrants, “Real ID” is about controlling and tracking Americans.
Car registration (and driver’s licensing) is the sixth plank to the communist manifesto.
(It is one of the key elements implemented as part of the communist takeover of America that happened during the last century.)
It is also a violation of our right to life, liberty and happiness when the criminals masquerading as “government” misapply (through trickery, deceit and violence) commercial statutes that were designed to regulate commerce to a free people’s travel. (Thereby defrauding a free people of our rights to travel and locomotion as well as our right to own property.)
Cheers! ☮️
Well, NOW you tell me. I just got done writing: Bad luck streak in Traffic School.
Plus, of course couples don’t wish to bring children into a Prison Planet future. Western population will crash even faster.
Along with using cash, I have avoided that direct billing from my bank account that NOT everybody does. It’s been a struggle, because these fuckers at the phone company quit allowing autopay using Credit Cards, which are 3rd party. The changed to requiring a Debit Card or direct access to the bank account. Fuck that.
So, I’m paying $5 more a month to write checks to them (well plus a buck between the stamp and envelope), but I want no part of their system. (Yes, I realize the routing number is on the check, but it can’t be used in the same way.)
No autopay for utilities bills and such – that’s being part of the system that I want no part in.
A big advantage of the uses of cash besides trying to hold back Big Brother is the discounting due to all parties wanting to keep the hands of the IRS on private transactions, 2 birds with one stone.
I’ve saved 7% or so on a roof, bought cars with cash, etc. You won’t save at the chain eatery, but you’ll save lots on bigger deals. Don’t let the other party bluff you with “Oh, it doesn’t matter. Either way.” Believe me, it MATTERS to them, so I’ll just pull out a check in that case to call their bluff and see what happens.
“Son, this ain’t no dream no more. It’s the real thing!”