In a article I read in my local paper regarding the National Driver License, part of the Real ID Act that the Federal Governments wants. It is coming apparent the If the states do not comply, than citizen of that state will not be allow to board and planes of enter any Federal Building, Ex.(Post Office, Library of Congress, Lincoln Memorial, Capital Building)

Yes we need security, but not at the cost of giving up god given rights.

Below is a copy of a Letter to Editor I send I Friday.

PAPERS PLEASE!

In regards to the National driver’s license, it coming apparent that the Federal Government is dictating to the State government you must comply. I heard echoes of Hitler and Stalin, “Papers Please!”

Who are you? Are you a person that the Federal government owns? I am not a Federal Citizen; I am a Marylander in the State of Maryland, and not some piece of property that the Federal Governments own.

Here is our Governor, why hasn’t he told the Federal Government to stay of out the State of Maryland business. Maryland is a separate entity and is not part of the Federal government, why has our State government not told the Fed’s butt out!

Yes, we need security, but not at the cost of our god given rights. The Federal government, in my opinion has overstepped and ignored the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. They are imposing their will, ignoring the rights of the people. What would our founding fathers say?

“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Redress of grievances is your right, Federal Government is ignoring that rights, so it is time to speak out, tell our state representatives to tell the Fed’s to Butt Out!!!!

Does anyone have any suggestions that I can foward to our Representatives who is suppose to represent the people????

ddollinger

Hate to break the news to you but last I looked it was not a god given right to live in aninomity and obscurity. Also, it is not a National Driver's License it is a National ID. I have traveled the world and we are one of the few countries/nations without some type of national ID system for all the people. A passport is a national ID to allow entry into other countries as well as back into the good ole US of A after your soiree to wherever. Only difference is that your passport is not needed to travel the US or to gain unfettered access to Federal facilities. Apparently, you are acting on bad information as to access to Federal facilities whether it be your lack of research or just an idiot assumption but the lack of a national ID (if it ever becomes a reality) will only deny you access to Federal facilities that require ID to enter them. Last I went to the Post Office, the Library of Congress, and the Lincoln Memorial I sure don't remember having to show ID so you may want to quit trying to make it sound like the sky is falling and we are entering a Gestopo state.

tomder55

I don't think it's a big deal except for the fact that if the Fed. Gvt. is going to establish standards that States must comply with ;and it becomes a costly conversion ...then the Feds should pay the states to make it happen.

purplewings

Curiously, if people can come from a foreign country and obtain drivers license and social security cards as they have done in the past, why would they be unable to obtain a national ID?

WVHiflyer

The idea is repulsive to me. And I do think that anonymity is a natural right. It has to do with privacy. purplewings is right that it's not a cure-all for national identity for security purposes (I didn't take that too far for you did I purp? <G>) The gov't want the cards to keep track of us. Biometrics on the cards makes it seem secure but with RDIFs, all you med and financial history that will also be on them will be open to anyone with the smarts to access it.

And wasn't one of the things we used to point to in the Eastern Bloc as a bad thing the fact that you could be stopped on the street and demand uyou give them your 'papers'? What's the dif between that and a nat'l ID?

Besides, we already fought one war that had states' rights as a contributing factor....



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Galveston1

It may not be a God given right to be anonymous, but then neither is it a God given right for some bureaucrat to know where you are all the time either. I kinda like to be mostly left alone by my government.