http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/11/real.id.ap/index.html
It starts. By 2011, we’ll all have to have a Federally issued Identification Card. If you haven’t figured it out. This is really, really bad. The majority of the yahoo’s that visit cnn.com think its a good idea! How on earth can you think that having the government track you is a good idea? Hasn’t the mistakes with the VA personal data taught you anything? The government doesn’t need to know everything. The governments job is to protect our rights. Not add additional restrictions.
By 2017 everyone in the US will be required to have a REAL ID issued to them. It’s not going to prevent any attacks. The only way it might stop immigration: People will quit wanting to be here, because they don’t want the government watching everything they do. Orwell’s 1984 was only 33 years too soon.
Ron Paul’s ideals need to live on. Even if he doesn’t make the presidency, the revolution he started must survive. Small government is the way of the republic. Need I remind you that the president’s job is to defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. This REAL ID system is a domestic enemy of the constitution. It takes away rights of the individual. In the pledge of allegiance you pledge to “the republic for which it stands.” A republic empowers and protects the individual. Democracys empower and protect the group, sacrificing the individual. We need to stay a republic. We need to stay free. We don’t need a national ID system. It won’t do anything except oppress the most free country in the world, possibly turning us into the least free.
