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TOOLZ Donating Member (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:28 AM
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SENATE TO VOTE ON NATIONAL ID SYSTEM TUESDAY!
This Tuesday, the US Senate is scheduled to vote on the implementation of a national ID card system. The Real ID Act is nothing less than a Real National ID Act. The only thing left to the individual states is to decide which pretty picture they will choose to put on the card: everything else will be controlled by Washington DC bureaucrats.

The Real ID Act has never been debated on the US Senate floor. They've never talked about it in any committee. Heck, most of them haven't even read it! Yet they're planning to vote on it on Tuesday, no questions asked.

In order to make a single irresponsible Congressman with totalitarian leanings happy, the Senate leadership let him write the bill and then slipped it into a another bill, one that would keep our fighting men and women taken care of in Iraq and Afghanistan. Supporting our troops means making sure they come home to a free nation, not a surveillance state.

<www.unrealid.com>
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:35 AM
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1. I'm really surprised that the Pubs want this!
I know ALL their media talking heads scream like stuck pigs when a national ID is mentioned! What in the world changed their mind???
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Tuesday_Morning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-05 10:57 AM
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2. I went to unrealid.com...
and faxed my senators.

Is there any DU campaign about it? Can't find it.

Also...does anybody know: Does the current version of Real ID include those scary provisions about the head of Homeland Security being able to do away with all laws near the border? Or the part that leaves what a terrorist is undefined?
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