:: Ponder the perils of national ID Act
I am writing to encourage readers of your newspaper to some of the perils of the "Real ID Act." May 2008 will be the date that Bureau of Motor Vehicles across this country will begin creating the largest database this country has ever seen and some of the information will be stored on a RFID chip contained on your driver's license. We have all seen World War II movies that included citizens being stopped and told to show their papers. This is coming to the U.S.A. Soon you will have to have your papers (this new driver's license) to enter government buildings such as a post office or Social Security office.
The Real ID Act claims to create a federal national identification card by mandating federal standards for state driver's licenses and other identification cards and requiring states to share their motor vehicle databases, with no constitutional authority existing by the federal government.
The Real ID Act enables the creation of additional massive private sector databases, combining both transactional information and driver's license information gained from scanning machine-readable information contained on every driver's license. These databases are likely to contain numerous errors and accidental false information, creating significant hardship for Americans attempting to verify their identities in order to renew their driver's licenses, board commercial airlines, open accounts with federal-regulated private banks or perform any of the numerous functions required to live a normal life in these United States today.
I think it is important that we contact our state senators and representatives now to ask them to stand with the states of South Carolina, Maine, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Montana and Washington and pass legislation declining to implement the Real ID Act in Indiana.
