What do you think of the Real ID Card? Oppose or support? Why? What will you Do?

Question

This Bill is currently in Congress and due to be fully enacted by May 2008, forcing drivers to have a National Driver's license. You will not be able to drive, board an airplane or have a bank account if you do not have one!

Answer 1

It isn't soon enough
I got nothing to hide
and am not ashamed of myself or of being a citizen of the greatest place on the planet

Answer 2

To me, it just seems like a political, smoke job, making it seem as though they are doing something, to ease public tension about protecting the United States against terrorist attacks and throwing in for good measure that it will help with illegal immigrant working as well but lets be real here....

If ALREADY we have sooooooooooo many people getting a license with false documentation do you really think that one more license is going to matter? We pay more, to get something that only gives the illusion it is an answer to the problem.

As long as you still have people that are not truly qualified to check such documentation and are only data entry people, which most are, that will be providing these licenses, then what is going to change. The only change I can see is that it would be called a "NATIONAL DRIVERS LICENSE" vs a drivers license.

I have no stand on it being a democrat or republican, only a stand on it being another smoke screen being blow up the publics rear to give them some sort of false security, which they are so carelessly spending our tax dollars on.

Unfortunately there are so many that fall for such smoke screens and then settle into a false sense of security that they then are shocked and outraged when something happens, thinking that " I just don't understand.. We had such a good system of checks and balance into place this time."

To me it is all a big joke, making no real change, only calling it something else, which is typical of government tactic these days.

The bill states that "regular dmv offices will be the ones issuing these licenses" now these are the folks already that are giving them out to terrorists and immigrants now, so how are these people going to be any more competent at doing this job simply by changing the name of the license and providing them with more complicated procedures and equipment to do the job?

Also it states documentation must be scanned and stored, however state dmv's do not have access to national security data bases or machinery that is so advanced as to note a previously stored document and match it against one being submitted again by another person trying to obtain a license.

DMV's will store them electronically yes but the cost of equipment that can literally pull and match documentation to prevent that same document being used by another for the purpose of obtaining a false license, simply isn't available to states, as its cost is just astronomical.

The bill further states that other things may be added such as finger print or eye scan encryption. That sounds all well and good but once again, what state has this technology and if they do, how are simple data entry people that dmvs hire, even remotely trained to work with this technology?

The things they are talking about doing require people with degrees and training in dealing with such advanced technology and yet they are putting this in the hands of DMV locations without any plan of hiring the type of people that they need to really understand and work with this type of advanced technology.

That to me says that even more people will get these licenses simply due to failure to understand the process and simply push through the applications.

As far as what I will do.. Well when they enact it then I don't have much of a choice. I need to drive so will have to get one but in no way shape or form will it bring me more peace about our security in the United States, if anything it will bring me less peace.

Answer 3

Okay, just for starters, the bill is not in Congress, it was signed into law in 2005 and is due to be implemented at the state level beginning in 2008.

Now the answer to your question is I don't like it. I have no fear of the ID card itself as it is just a means to standardize identification, but the IDs will contain an RFID chip. I do not like these chips. These chips will contain too much personal information. Anyone with the right scanner can read your information directly from that chip from a distance and this represents a great security risk in a world that already has identity theft issues.

Answer 4

Instead of a national driver license, how about a card indicating how bad a driver he or she is and ban them from using motorized vehicles on national highways and interstates. I think bad drivers should also be given harsher punishments and not just points off your license and some jail time.

Answer 5

I whole-heartedly oppose this measure for several reasons. Namely, this is NOT a federal issue, it is clearly an issue for individual states to handle as they see fit and I also have a severe problem with the govt having complete access to all of my information and accounts. While they may already have that information, I sure as hell don't want to make it easier on them. There is also word on the street that the cards will have chips with GPS capabilities... meaning the govt will be able to track you at any time or place. There are so many unacceptable things with this, I can't even believe it.

Answer 6

Do remember NAZI GERMANY? Where you would see in the movies the police boarding buses and trains checking I.D's? That is the future of the "land of the free" WHAT A MOKERY!
Those who would give up their freedom for security, deserve neither...A.Lincoln.
Mary.

Answer 7

Read the facts, please. It is NOT a "national driver's license."

The Real ID Bill sets federal standards for all state-issued ID cards, and it will be up to your individual states to re-issue your driver's license to you to meet the standards. And I think it's a really good idea. If it will keep terrorists from either entering our country or getting on a plane to blow it up, I'm all for it.

Besides, the individual states gave up their rights to complain about the feds telling them what do to on April 9, 1865.

If you don't know what that date is, then you'll just have to look it up.

Answer 8

Carry on living abroad; next is full scale surveillance in the name of security, then IP address registration and the introduction of thought crime through political correctness. Before you know it there will be points for turning friends/neighbours/family in and you'll have to wear a safety helmet to walk down the street. The only people unaffected at first will be the red necks who stay in the woods and think it's a fine idea because you should have nothing to hide.

Answer 9

I totally support a national ID card, one that is the same format for all Americans and is very hard to fake.

I also support fingerprinting and taking DNA samples of all babies born in America and all visitors to America. Then when little Johnny grows up and rapes and murders, we will know who did it.

I also support video cameras on all street corners, monitored by the government.

I do not think any of this violates unreasonable search and seizure. It all seems very reasonable to me.

Answer 10

I like it - it would cut down on fakes and illegal immigration as well as make tracking runaway offenders much easier. It might even help locate people who were stolen as children and are now of licensing age so that families can finally see them again.

Answer 11

I have no issue with it -- why would I?

I am legal, I pay taxes, I am not a criminal, therefore I have no problem with having an ID that says all those things.......oh wait hmm...might make it a bit of a ***** for the illegals to move so freely around our country though wouldn't it.......aww too bad, so sad, let me help ya find the way back to where you came from.