alan
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By the way, for anyone who might think that this fiasco won't effect their firearms rights, I respectfully suggest that you think again.
U.S. Readies Real ID
"U.S. officials said they would unveil on Friday reasonable and inexpensive national requirements to implement an identification-card program critics call a costly invasion of privacy," Reuters reports. "The program, called Real ID, has been rejected by 17 states based on draft regulations. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he would announce on Friday revised rules that reflect state concerns. 'We have worked very closely with the states in terms of developing a plan that I think will be quite inexpensive, reasonable to implement and produce ... secure identification when drivers' licenses are presented,' Chertoff said on Thursday to a panel of outside advisers to his department. He gave no details, and the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sharply criticized the draft program, said it had no information on any revisions."
Jim Harper, Cato's director of information policy studies, comments: "The REAL ID Act regulations are dead on arrival. Several states have already committed not to implement this national ID law. Other states, which asked Congress to fully fund this $17 billion mandate, will reject the paltry $50 million Congress gave them to divide among themselves. This is all for the good. REAL ID does not add to our country's protections, it requires law-abiding citizens to carry a national ID, and it will promote identity fraud by putting millions of citizens' data into a network of databases. The deeply flawed REAL ID law was passed without a hearing in either the House or the Senate, and the Department of Homeland Security has failed to ‘fix it in the regs.’ Americans reject a national ID and they reject REAL ID."
U.S. Readies Real ID
"U.S. officials said they would unveil on Friday reasonable and inexpensive national requirements to implement an identification-card program critics call a costly invasion of privacy," Reuters reports. "The program, called Real ID, has been rejected by 17 states based on draft regulations. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said he would announce on Friday revised rules that reflect state concerns. 'We have worked very closely with the states in terms of developing a plan that I think will be quite inexpensive, reasonable to implement and produce ... secure identification when drivers' licenses are presented,' Chertoff said on Thursday to a panel of outside advisers to his department. He gave no details, and the American Civil Liberties Union, which has sharply criticized the draft program, said it had no information on any revisions."
Jim Harper, Cato's director of information policy studies, comments: "The REAL ID Act regulations are dead on arrival. Several states have already committed not to implement this national ID law. Other states, which asked Congress to fully fund this $17 billion mandate, will reject the paltry $50 million Congress gave them to divide among themselves. This is all for the good. REAL ID does not add to our country's protections, it requires law-abiding citizens to carry a national ID, and it will promote identity fraud by putting millions of citizens' data into a network of databases. The deeply flawed REAL ID law was passed without a hearing in either the House or the Senate, and the Department of Homeland Security has failed to ‘fix it in the regs.’ Americans reject a national ID and they reject REAL ID."
