Just say "NO"

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The Real ID: Big Brother's Comin' Our Way (Is this like 'real t.v.'?)


The road is bumpy as Texas heads toward compliance with Real ID, the federally mandated state-issued identification card that will go into effect next year.

Haven't heard much about it? Texas is one of the states that, for the most part, has been silent on the implementation of Real ID. The new card -- which will replace driver's licenses in most states over the next six years -- will be linked by a common machine-read technology to at least a half-dozen or more databases, will be required to board planes and enter federal buildings, and will be the gold standard for verifying the cardholder is a legal United States resident


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For all this trouble, the federal government has appropriated a whopping $40 million to date to cover what is expected to be an $11 billion tab over the next five years. Some states -- Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Washington -- have refused to comply with the new mandate. A dozen others are urging a repeal or redrafting of the law. Idaho simply refused to fund it.

States had plenty of reasons to complain: The cost of security -- from database firewalls to the physical security of driver's license offices -- is still unclear. The software and databases -- and the privacy of those databases -- is still uncertain. The costs could be in the millions for each state. And the entire exercise forces states to stretch the original purpose of driver's licenses from driving and age verification to citizenship and even employment verification, if some lawmakers get their way.

Maine simply refused. Speaking to lawmakers at last week's National Conference of State Legislatures in Boston, Maine Sen. Elizabeth Mitchell said Maine residents were a private bunch and Maine lawmakers decided that private industry -- specifically, the airline industry -- would not put up with requirements that might curtail business...cont'd

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A524377

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I think this administration and their corporate backers have been the perfect model for teaching one how to overthrow and oppose laws and policy : it has shown states and citizens alike that if you don't choose to participate, or abide by national and international laws and regulations, to provide legal verification when asked, or information or money...just say 'no'.
So perhaps that is what WE THE PEOPLE need to do as well...en masse...to the dubious regulations and policies set forth by this corrupt administration. Of course THEY expect complete obedience to their own dictates but I'm sure they would be the first to understand how little respect one might have for such illegitimate rules which don't serve our immediate purposes or fill our wallets.

no No NO! That will really clog the legal system, but who needs a legal system anyway?