I asked you this question before, Michelle, and you refused to answer.
Why to you post a link to a copyright message, and then post the entire
message?
Secondly, why would 99.9% of all of us care about having an electronic ID
card? Maybe one of them might have saved the lives of the people who died
in the World Trade Center.
--
DG in Cherry Hill, NJ
videomaven1nospam@comcast.net
"Chrissy Cruiser" wrote in message
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> http://tinyurl.com/b62yk
>
> Last-minute attempts by online activists to halt an electronic ID card
> failed Tuesday when the U.S. Senate unanimously voted to impose a sweeping
> set of identification requirements on Americans.
>
> The so-called Real ID Act now heads to President Bush, who is expected to
> sign the bill into law this month. Its backers, including the Bush
> administration, say it's needed to stop illegal immigrants from obtaining
> drivers' licenses.
>
> If the act's mandates take effect in May 2008, as expected, Americans will
> be required to obtain federally approved ID cards with "machine readable
> technology" that abides by Department of Homeland Security specifications.
> Anyone without such an ID card will be effectively prohibited from
> traveling by air or Amtrak, opening a bank account, or entering federal
> buildings.
>
> After the Real ID Act's sponsors glued it to an Iraq military spending
> bill, final passage was all but guaranteed. Yet that didn't stop a
> dedicated cadre of privacy activists from trying to raise the alarm in the
> last few days.
>
> UnRealID.com, which calls the legislation a "national ID card," says that
> more than 10,800 people filled out its online petition to senators.
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation hastily created a "Stop The Real ID
> Act!" campaign last week, and the ACLU denounced the bill as a measure
that
> would create "a system ripe for identity theft." Security guru Bruce
> Schneier offered his own negative critique.
>
> If the Real ID Act had been a standalone piece of legislation--instead of
> being embedded in an unrelated military spending bill--its passage in the
> Senate might have been less certain.
>
> The House approved it in February by a relatively narrow vote of 261-161,
> and some senators had condemned it. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., warned last
> month that the Real ID Act creates "de facto national ID cards" and the
> National Immigration Law Center said it will make it harder even for legal
> immigrants and citizens to get drivers' licenses.
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