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Real ID? We don’ need no stinkin’ ID! This item is in from the folks at DownSizeDC:
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
I’m sending out today’s Downsizer-Dispatch message earlier than usual. The Senate may vote TODAY on the “emergency” appropriations bill and the REAL ID Act. Hammer them. And do it now.
Let them know that you know that they can vote down this bill and then come back and do the spending bill again (that is, if they really must take another step toward national bankruptcy), only next time they should do it without the REAL ID Act. Tell them you know it won’t be easy, but you want them to show some backbone on this vote. Tell them you will remember what they do. The REAL ID Act must not be passed.
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Sorry. Downsize has to streamline its sign-up procedure. I went through the whole drill, then I was asked to start over. I don’t have the patience. My senators are confirmed socialists anyway……
National ID cards seem to become a popular trend. Over here (.nl) it is now mandatory to carry ID as well. Cops cannot just go around and ask for it, but the whole point is good intent cannot be trusted endlessly.
The most disturbing part to me, is that it isn’t too hard to find actual details about the REAL ID ACT on government websites i.e it’s a “real” thing, but for the life of me can’t find a single article in any major/mainstream news sources about it (oh wait… I found *one* form NPR). Neither about it’s passing the house last Thursday or the possible vote on it today.
In England… during the process of law making do they have they same procedure where as they slip what would be an unpopular/controversial bill into other bills that save Children, feed the hungry, support the troops etc..?
No. But there are a couple of similarly dangerous tendencies here: the ragbag act (usually something to do with Criminal Justice) where dozens of disparate tinkering measures are shoved in with a couple of high profile popular themes and get through barely examined; and “framework” legislation, where parliament gives the executive wide power to make substantive law through regulation.
The American approach derives from the fact that your legislators will actually vote the way that suits them (and their backers maybe) if they understand the measures, so the Bills have to be made unreadable and filled with poison pills. Ours is driven by the exigencies of the party system and media attention in the first case, and the constitutional possiblilty of avoiding scrutiny altogether in the second.
I definitely am against the Nat’l ID act because it threatens our civil liberties as well as our personal freedoms and our rights. What I found out was that each state has the optiona of going along with this act or not, they don’t have to necessarily adopt it as law. For example, Montana has refused to acknowlege this new act. Their citizens aren’t able to air travel or drive as a result. I think that all of us American citizens, near and far, need to come together regardless of our personal issues with one another and take a stand against this type of tyranny and intimidation. We can collectively register as citizens in the particular state we reside. We will still be able to work and function within the confines of the state in which we live. Just think about it if everybody, nationwide took a stand on this issue and did this then this so called new law would be rendered powereless because no one will go along. On the other hand, we need to take this same action as U.S citizens and back this country out of the United Nations, we also need to put some serious pressure on Congress to shut down our Federal Reserve System since they do have the legal power to do so. The Federal Reserve System in a private banking corportation like any other bank, it is not a government entitiy which we thought we paid our taxes into and they benefitted us by using the taxes where everyone would benefit. That is a evil system that selfishly exists for monetary gain and each one of us collectively, nationally, need to telephoning our congressperson, putting pressure on them to shut them down.