Topic: US - Driver's license as national ID

Feb 4, 9:36 AM (ET)

By LESLIE MILLER

(AP) Rep. Jim Guest, R-King City, listens to debate Monday, May 1, 2006, in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A revolt against a national driver's license, begun in Maine last month, is quickly spreading to other states.

The Maine Legislature on Jan. 26 overwhelmingly passed a resolution objecting to the Real ID Act of 2005. The federal law sets a national standard for driver's licenses and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national databases.

Within a week of Maine's action, lawmakers in Georgia, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and Washington state also balked at Real ID. They are expected soon to pass laws or adopt resolutions declining to participate in the federal identification network.

"It's the whole privacy thing," said Matt Sundeen, a transportation analyst for the National Conference of State Legislatures. "A lot of legislators are concerned about privacy issues and the cost. It's an estimated $11 billion implementation cost."

The law's supporters say it is needed to prevent terrorists and illegal immigrants from getting fake identification cards.

States will have to comply by May 2008. If they do not, driver's licenses that fall short of Real ID's standards cannot be used to board an airplane or enter a federal building or open some bank accounts.

About a dozen states have active legislation against Real ID, including Arizona, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.

Missouri state Rep. James Guest, a Republican, formed a coalition of lawmakers from 34 states to file bills that oppose or protest Real ID.

Though most states oppose the law, some such as Indiana and Maryland are looking to comply with Real ID, Sundeen said.

The issue may be moot for states if Congress takes action.

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Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070204/D8N2UVDG0.html

I'm not sure what the author means by that last sentence.   Probably another uneducated American who thinks that "if Congress takes action" the rights of states are somehow irrelevant.   She needs to research the concept of federalism as used in the US.

2 (edited by lyra 2007-02-05 17:42:20)

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What gets my attention is this:

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States will have to comply by May 2008. If they do not, driver's licenses that fall short of Real ID's standards cannot be used to board an airplane or enter a federal building or open some bank accounts.

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Well, like Aaron Russo said in his movie, if I can't enter a federal building ... I'd consider that a blessing!    And if I can't board a plane, I can deal with that.  I don't have any further plans to travel internationally in the near future, and for within the US I'm happy enough to just drive.   Beats putting up with the Nazi airport goons, so it's not a major inconvenience to me personally.  No bank account?   Well, that might be a bit more problematic.   Paypal might work for awhile, that's not a bank. wink    If not, well ...

Maybe the time has come to put up or shut up and start living "off the grid" totally ... or just accept the control.     It still seems very probable that the time is GOING TO COME when we WILL have to make that choice.     I'm thinking it could be effective to organize a group of principled people who are willing to flat-out refuse a specific method of control, and intentionally get themselves imprisoned on principle.  And REFUSE to be released until the law is changed.   I'm not sure how plausible that is, or what repercussions people who did that might face, but I think it's something that might be worth considering sooner or later, especially if enough people were willing to do it.

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Achtung! Your papers, please.

We're all butterflies flapping our wings and changing the world.

5 (edited by lyra 2007-02-05 19:12:24)

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morningsun76 wrote:

I'm thinking it could be effective to organize a group of principled people who are willing to flat-out refuse a specific method of control, and intentionally get themselves imprisoned on principle.  And REFUSE to be released until the law is changed.   I'm not sure how plausible that is, or what repercussions people who did that might face, but I think it's something that might be worth considering sooner or later, especially if enough people were willing to do it.

Well, have fun, but I'm not going to jail on principle.  No offense, but that's ludicrous.  Why would you purposely have yourself imprisoned when you can be free off the grid???

Let's have a refresher course in what goes on in prison:

- Craptastic "food."  And don't be surprised to find blood, urine or semen put in it by the jail workers, just for kicks.  You can kiss your health goodbye. 

- Mind control waves beamed at the prisoners.  In Jim Keith's book "Mass Control" he has a chapter regarding the beaming harassment and experimentation/torment inflicted on prisoners.  And there's nothing you can do about it.  You're locked up in your little cell behind bars.  All you can do is just stand/sit/lay there and be fried out and tormented.

- And that's not even counting the other ways in which the prison population is used for experimentation.

"Prisoner #542, get over here and take your injection!"

"What is it??  What's in it??  What are you doing to me?"

"Shut up and give me your arm."

"No!"

"Guards...."

(night sticks are pulled out of holsters, you get a beating.)

"Now, give me your arm...."


- Harassment by other prisoners.  Need I say more?  I think we all know what I'm talking about here.

- Harassment by the guards.  Need I say more?  I think we all know what I'm talking about here.

- No nature.  No fresh air.  No mountains, desert, lakes, rivers, oceans, forests, stars at night, summer rain, winter snow, autumn foliage.  No wildlife.   

- Minimal book reading, no personal computer, minimal if any internet.  But you do get a blaring TV.  Yay. 

I'd rather camp out illegally in the woods, scrounging and begging for food and handouts where I can at least be free than be in prison.   There is no principle out there that would get me to get myself locked up.  None.  There are better ways to stand up for what you believe in, and the prison system isn't it, trust me.  Let's broaden our options here, honestly.  You're not going to teach anybody a lesson by getting yourself locked up. All you've succeeded in doing is getting yourself taken out of commission.  Now the world, and the "good guys" have one less commodity working for them on their team.  What good are you doing anybody when you're locked up in a cell??  Do you think the bad guys care?  NO.  They'll actually be HAPPY that you willingly got yourself locked up and taken out of commission.  In my opinion, absolutely nothing will come of it.  You might get one newspaper article and a one minute blurb on the news and that's it.  Nobody cares.  People have to go to work, they have bills to pay and a mortgage to keep up on and mouths to feed.  They're not going to care about your cause.  You'd be that amusing anecdote they read about in the papers or on the news.

Another example - Ernst Zundel.  You read Rense, you know what the story is.  He has his loyal group of supporters and the guy is becoming a martyr for those who would be illegally imprisoned for what should be his right to free speech.  He's famous and known...more famous and known than you'd probably be.  But what good has it done?  Has anything changed?  Nope.  He's still locked up, and things are looking dire.  (if he hasn't already died...I may have missed any updates on that.)  And nobody cares. They're just glad it's not them in the same situation.


morningsun76 wrote:

Maybe the time has come to put up or shut up and start living "off the grid" totally ... or just accept the control.     It still seems very probable that the time is GOING TO COME when we WILL have to make that choice.

Definitely, I'm with you on this.  Not a bad idea to start planning ahead.  We're here people, it's arrived, the writing's on the wall.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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lyra wrote:

Let's have a refresher course in what goes on in prison:

There's no doubt that you're right on all your points.   I was just thinking it might be a possible idea if enough people were willing to do it at the same time.  As in maybe a thousand or more, in an organized and planned way.   One person or even a small group would not be effective, and Zuendel does prove that point nicely.       Well, it was just a thought, anyway ...

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morningsun76 wrote:
lyra wrote:

Let's have a refresher course in what goes on in prison:

There's no doubt that you're right on all your points.   I was just thinking it might be a possible idea if enough people were willing to do it at the same time.  As in maybe a thousand or more, in an organized and planned way.   One person or even a small group would not be effective, and Zuendel does prove that point nicely.       Well, it was just a thought, anyway ...

I do get what you're saying....I'm just thinking there are way too many risks involved, to the point of not being worth it.  Also, you can never know what will happen on the outside which would render useless the fact that all those people are now locked up on the inside.  At the time when this mass organization of people goes in, life could be fine and normal on the outside, making their cause something worthy of attention to the outside world.

Until something happens, throwing the outside world into chaos.  Now, nobody gives a crap what's happening to those 1,000 people who willingly walked into prison five months back, which made it onto the news.  Life is falling apart on the outside, so it's the least of anybody's worries.  And meanwhile you're, well....still locked up.   End of story.

I have to say though that part of me is surprised to see this sort of thing actually starting to happen.  I mean, we all knew about it, I remember first hearing about things to come back in 2001.   My motto is "Only time will tell" though.  Just wait and see.  And now...here it is.  Maybe it'll fall on its face like the National ID card and TIPS did back in 2002.  That's what I'm hoping.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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Yeah, I guess it's a question of how many people out there actually "wake up" to a certain degree where it reaches some kind of critical mass.  On the one hand I'm pretty pessimistic, seeing how things have been progressing so far.  I mean, it seems like those of us who started the awakening process might now be much more advanced, but we're still the same group of people that reads the internet boards and is aware of all this stuff.   And it seems like there may not be a whole lot of "new" people coming on board and starting the process.   So ... on one hand it does seem rather bad.   But then again, in a pinch, a whole lot of normals might suddenly benefit in an instant of time from the years of groundwork that has been laid by the fringe-dwellers.   Who knows?    And quite a few sources (the C's and Stuart Wilde come immediately to mind) are on record as claiming that they've already seen the ultimate outcome of all this, and the dark side loses.   So that's cool.    Hopefully we can get to that point WITHOUT having to suffer a major horror-show with the screaming and gnashing of teeth, and all that nasty stuff. hehe.    Yes, time will tell ...

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Hello...I've been doing research for the past few months on the net and  have also submitted a list of websites on another thread about the issue your speaking of here. From what I surmise is "Remember 'who' you are", and the fact today is everything operates under 'contract'. No contract= no law. Do not contract. I know it's alot easier said than done, seeings the feds have roped us into it for many years, unbeknowingst to us, but from what I've read, the UCC can work for 'us' just as well as it work's for them! Hmmmmm.

~JOYce~

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It'd be interesting to read some material on the idea of contract law, if anybody has any links they can post.

The only problem is, the neg people in positions of authority, be it feds, police, etc. have this new policy that anybody who questions say, taxes, or driver's licenses, (and now you can add National ID card in there I'm sure) is basically a terrorist.  Somebody conspiring against the government who should be taken out.  I saw something posted, maybe here on NR, like about a year or two ago.  It showed this manual or something for law enforcement, talking specifically about "these sorts" of people.   I don't know if anybody here remembers seeing this and knows what I'm talking about? but it's very revealing.  The game is a bit rigged.  They already have their minds made up about what direction they're going, and how they view anybody who even so much as questions their policies.  "Terrorist."  Period.  (judge anvil slamming down.)   

mad

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Yes you are correct lyra, they probably would do away with the one's who get to close to their games, or figuring out there games I should say. Mary E. Croft talks of contract in her e-book which I will list the link for anyone who is interested in reading it.....( http://mayanmajix.com/croft.pdf ) I watched on the news the other day of how Maine (which is where I live) is against the National ID Driver's License, as other states are too. Sometimes it seems 'your damned if you do, your damned if you don't'..

~JOYce~

12 (edited by morningsun76 2007-02-06 16:44:14)

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lyra wrote:

It'd be interesting to read some material on the idea of contract law, if anybody has any links they can post.

It's funny, I just checked my mailbox a few hours ago and the "Nutshells" book I ordered on Contract Law was in there.   Turned out to be on BRITISH law ... I thought I was ordering one on American law so I'll have to go back and double check that.   But anyway, this definitely seems to be an important subject both here in 3-D and beyond.

lyra wrote:

I saw something posted, maybe here on NR, like about a year or two ago.  It showed this manual or something for law enforcement, talking specifically about "these sorts" of people.

Yeah, I believe you're talking about these FBI flyers  which apparently came out well before 9/11:

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Front.jpg

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Back.jpg

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That's it morningsun76, thanks!   Specifically what interested me were the sections "Common Law Movement Proponents" and "Right Wing Extremists."   Those supposed "defenders" of the Constitution as the brochure calls it and those who "make numerous reference to the Constitution," and the people who would dare "police the police."  I mean, how dare those people have the Constitution memorized and know their rights, and how dare they not tolerate cops who abuse their power. wink  Damn terrorists.

"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!"  - Anonymous
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14 (edited by morningsun76 2007-02-06 16:44:28)

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My favorite is "request authority for stop."   Yep, that justifies a call to the Joint Terrorism Task Force!     Well anyone who has watched "Busted: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters" should know that requesting the authority for the stop is probably a pretty GOOD idea under most circumstances.    But that's assuming you live in a society bound by laws ... which obviously is no longer the case.

lyra wrote:

That's it morningsun76, thanks!   Specifically what interested me were the sections "Common Law Movement Proponents" and "Right Wing Extremists."   Those supposed "defenders" of the Constitution as the brochure calls it and those who "make numerous reference to the Constitution," and the people who would dare "police the police."  I mean, how dare those people have the Constitution memorized and know their rights, and how dare they not tolerate cops who abuse their power. wink  Damn terrorists.

Yeah, I bet they REALLY don't like these guys.

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Yeah, anyone who defends the Constitution is obviously a terrorist, as are people who are for animal rights. roll  And I like how they put "Lone individuals" as a sign of a Single Issue Terrorist. 

"Look, that guy down the hall lives alone... and he loves animals... and he actually knows some of the Constitution... let's report him, he must be a terrorist!"

He he, I'm surprised they haven't arrested Moby yet.  Shaved head, made a CD called "Animal Rights," and he's very outspoken against the government.