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<h3 class="ht">Re: Russia+US demand users show ID to access public
facilities</h3>
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"John Gilmore" <gnu@toad.com>
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<i>Aug 8, 2014 7:43 PM</i>
<pre>US demands citizens show ID to access public transport, courts, buildings
"State driver's licenses from these 12 states and 2 territories are no
longer good enough, because those states did not sign up for DHS's National
ID effort", says DHS. As of July 21, 2014, people from these states can no
longer enter federal property where the public can't go (e.g. they can't get
inside NASA facilities); and next year, can't enter federal property at all.
In 2016, they can't be passengers on airplanes.
The refusenik states: Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma,
Washington. Praise these state legislatures & administrations for refusing
to conspire with the feds against their own citizenry to construct a
National ID system. Ask your Congresspeople to repeal the Real ID Act,
which is what DHS is using to try to club these states into complying.
Of course all of this is unconstitutional; the feds can't claim that
citizens aren't allowed to travel, or attend "public" trials, because they
don't have or show a document. That would be, uh, I'm groping for the
word... Stalinistic? Totalitarian?
It can't happen here. So what is this DHS page about?
<a href="http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/real-id-enforcement-in-brief-20140205.pdf">http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/real-id-enforcement-in-brief-20140205.pdf</a>
And this one from the National Conference of State Legislatures?
<a href="http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/count-down-to-real-id.aspx">http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/count-down-to-real-id.aspx</a>
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