Why is the government wanting the Real ID Act, and saying it is necessary for fighting terrorism?

Question

The terrorists had legal documents and IDs when they attacked. How will putting everyone's information in one huge data base, plus the cost of implementing it, and the potential for abuse helping? Not to mention create a national id card that would infringe on state and individual rights? How can we call ourselves a free country when those living in states that reject it need a passport to simply go into a federal park?


http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/16/real.id.details/index.html

Answer 1

It's just another means of control over the population. One more move toward a totalitarian police state. Eventually, as George Orwell predicted in his book "1984", we will even be controlled by the Thought Police. -RKO- 08/18/07

Answer 2

We don't need a new national ID, we already have one that has worked fine for a # of years! It's called Social Security. Everyone now born in the U.S. is required to sign that child up ASAP, at times it is done in the hospital! This is just another way to spend money on another mindless cause! Any form of ID that the government comes up with is useless, those wishing to enter this country illegally will find a way to duplicate it. Just more big government trying to find another way to keep track of us!

Answer 3

It allows for quicker verification of fraudulent IDs.

But you're right -- it wouldn't have helped in almost every single instance of an actual attack over the past 30 years, because the people who committed those attacks had valid IDs.

It's just another way for the federal govt to monitor and control people... one more step along the road.

Answer 4

I didn't know SSN cards required a photo database? Silly me...


Those who give people you don't know more power are a bunch of fools.

Answer 5

I'd be happy if we had to prove to be citizens to vote and collect welfare. You're already in a huge data base dummy. Damn, you southern boys are thick.