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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: megimoo on July 18, 2009, 01:56:11 PM
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Opposition is growing to legislation that would weaken some of the restrictions to the Real ID act, a law that resulted from a key recommendation of the 9/11 Commission to prevent identification fraud.
"These suckers are really out to destroy our country !"
The PASS ID bill, which is supported by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, eliminates security measures included in the Real ID Act, which required verification of birth certificates, Social Security numbers and immigration status before someone could get a driver's license that could be used as an identification card for federal purposes such as boarding an airplane. The purposed of the REAL ID act was to prevent ID fraud and fulfill recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission.
The Pass ID bill would not require that the birth certificate is confirmed, would leave addresses off some driver’s licenses in cases where it is for their own protection and would not require that people have a valid driver’s license or ID to board an airplane.
The Real ID act requires state Department of Motor Vehicles (or the driver license issuing agency) to cross check the name and information of other states, which would not be required under Pass ID.
All but one of the 19 hijackers on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America had multiple driver licenses. To go from Real ID to Pass ID would be to undermine the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations, said Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), who sponsored the Real ID act in 2005.snip
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51170&print=on
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Well, we couldn't have some lackey in a DMV office somewhere be able to demand 0bama's BC to give him a "RealID" DL, now could we?