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Subject: Arizona bars real ID-----51--1
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Gov. Napolitano Approves Prohibition on Real ID (ARIZONA)
Ernest Hancock
Website: www.ernesthancock.com
Date: 06-17-2008
Subject: Police State
For Immediate Release
Contact: Senator Karen S. Johnson (602-926-3160)
Gov. Napolitano Approves Prohibition on Real ID
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano signed a bill today that prohibits the
implementation of the REAL ID in Arizona. SB2677 received a Final vote of
approval in the House last week by an overwhelming margin of 51 to 1.
Napolitano's signature was uncertain until today when she signed the bill into
law.
The bill prohibits implementation of the REAL ID Act of 2005, which
was passed by Congress as part of a supplemental spending bill for tsunami
relief and the War on Terror. The bill did not receive a hearing in either the
House or the Senate, and the public was largely unaware of it until it had
already been signed into law.
"Everyone thinks that the REAL ID is just about protecting us
against terrorism," said co-sponsor Senator Karen Johnson (R-18). "But it
really represents a cash cow for technology companies as well as the birth of
the National ID card, complete with all the biometric information that
technology can handle – face recognition, fingerprints, etc."
"Corporations which specialize in selling identity cards stand to
gain millions of dollars in profits if the Real ID Act is implemented," said
Johnson, "so, of course, they're eager for everyone to be required to carry a
National ID card everywhere they go." Two of those corporations are Digimarc
ID Systems and L-1 – the Number 1 and Number 2 companies for the manufacture of
state driver's licenses and identity cards. L-1 is considered the main driver
behind the REAL ID and last year had nearly $100 million in federal contracts
involving identity cards. Digimarc spent $350,000 in the first six months of
2007 lobbying Congress on the Real ID Act. Apparently the two companies are
soon to be merged, resulting in a powerhouse corporation, pushing
the "identification-as-security" concept to the maximum in order to increase
company profits as they add more and more biometric features to state driver's
licenses.
"It's misguided to think that identification equals security," says
Johnson. "Identification is just identification – it doesn't prove intent and
it doesn't stop terrorists. Indeed, terrorists will forge documents – as they
always have – to obtain the identification they want to commit crimes. Making
U.S. citizens carry identity papers to board a plane or enter a government
building stinks," says Johnson. "It's odious, onerous, and a violation of our
civil liberties."
"I refuse to be tagged and numbered," said Johnson. "Requiring people to
carry papers takes away their freedom. There are other, better ways to stop
terrorism and to protect us against criminals. The federal government needs to
butt out and let the states handle driver licensing. It's not the business of
the Dept. of Homeland Security to tell us how to run our state."
Real ID – SB2677
1. Proponents always claim that the sole purpose of the Real
ID is to prevent another 9/11-type attack by disrupting terrorists travel.
That is bogus. If the government really wanted to prevent such an attack, they
would secure our borders, which would (1) cost less than implementing Real ID,
(2) would be more effective at keeping terrorists out, and (3) would be less
intrusive and less inconvenient for American citizens. Until the borders are
secure, all the rosy pleas for the Real ID are just so much hogwash.
2. The Real ID will cost the states billions of dollars. The
Dept. of Transportation estimates that in Arizona alone, it will cost $40 to
$70 million to implement just in the first year, and $15 to $20 million in
subsequent years. But they really don't have a clue – they don't know what the
regulations are going to be yet. They are just estimating. It will depend on
what the Rules say when they are finally issued.
They already do some things that will be part of the requirements. For
example, they already check citizenship, or whether or not someone is legally
authorized to be in the country. So that would not be an additional expense.
But even factoring in that some things required by REAL ID are already being
handled, the $40 to $70 million is over and above what we already do!!!
3. The Real ID is an invasion of privacy. Why should so much
personal information be compiled on one place for so many people to have access
to?
- medical history
- social security number
- insurance information
4. The Real ID increases the risk of Identity Theft. Identity
theft is a major problem in Arizona already. Throwing everyone's personal
information – including social security numbers, birth dates, medical
information, driver's license and auto licensing information, etc. – into one
massive data base just makes it easier for identity thieves to harvest
identities for fraudulent purposes. The Real ID requires all Arizona driver's
license information to be compiled with all the information for the other 49
states and the District of Columbia into one massive database that will be
accessible by thousands of clerks and government employees throughout the
country. This is a horrendous idea – an invitation to identity theft on a
massive scale.
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CANADIAN ACTION PARTY/PARTI ACTION CANADIENNE
LEADER, CONSTANCE (Connie) FOGAL
www.canadianactionparty.ca
Telephone Connie Fogal at: 604 872 2128
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