CurtisLow
02-25-2008, 08:52 PM
(E-Mail I received from Pittsburgh meetup. Nick)
Dear Freedom lovers,
I have some very sad news to report concerning Real ID in Pennsylvania. Penn Dot has unfortunately decided to go ahead and begin to implement a series of benchmarks set forth by the Department of Homeland Security, without hearing any debate in the PA House or Senate. H.B. 1351 against the Real ID Act has not even been debated on the floor yet.
At this time Penn Dot has implemented almost all of the benchmarks, including making use of biometric facial scanning technology called Face explore.
Just yesterday at work I had in my hands another benchmark which most likely seals the deal that Penn Dot has the Real ID system up an running in PA. During the course of my work I must ask people for their ID cards to take down information contained on them. Yesterday a woman gave me her PA drivers license and I noticed it looked different right away. It looked and felt exactly like a regular drivers license but on the right and left sides where the normal cards would be blue and yellow hers were silver, and in big red letters across the entire license was the word "Temporary".
I asked her what this was and she said that she went to get her license renewed the day before and she said they gave her this temporary card because she had wait at least 15 days for her real card due to a background check.
A background check was another benchmark for Real ID. It looks like Pennsylvania will have Real ID well in place before the May 2008 deadline originally given by the Department if Homeland Security back in 2005. In fact at a hearing in Philadelphia just last week Penn Dot revealed how far along they were in implementing Real ID. At that hearing they said they had completed 11 of the 18 elements which, they stated, did not include the two most expensive elements, the background check, and something about getting your picture taken first instead of at the end of the process. This shows how rapidly they are advancing in their plans. And so it begins... The next step will be the chip.
If this makes you as mad as it makes me there is still something that we can do about it. We can urge our state representatives to co-sponsor H.B. 1351 and get it out of committee and put it to a vote on the House Floor. This would kill Real ID in PA no matter what Penn Dot has went ahead and done. Also we can urge our representatives that are part of the appropriations committee to cut funding to Penn Dot to the point where they can no longer do this.
It's going to take action! We must show up at that hearing on March 13 (Details or on the meetup site) and let them know that we do not want Real ID. Right now Penn Dot is playing us for fools, they think that we are too busy with our own lives to even know or care what they are up to behind our backs. They think that we won't even care that they took their marching orders from the Department of Homeland Security rather than the State Legislature like they are supposed to.
WE HAVE TO GET MAD!! This rally is going to be a turning point. We will draw the line here, and the state will not dare to cross it! Stand up with us now to show Penn Dot and our state government that we do not want Real ID!!!
I for one refuse to take the ID card or the Chip. I am prepared not to drive for the rest of my life if thats what it takes. I am not prepared to sacrifice any ounce of Liberty of so called "privileges" like driving.
A dark, dark day has begun in Pennsylvania thanks to Penn Dot. Let's fight it with everything that we got!!
In Liberty and Truth,
Nick
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Please write your representatives people! Even if you don't live in Pa you can write your own states reps with link at bottom.
Help Repeal the REAL ID Act!
The federal government has taken another step towards forcing you to carry a national ID in order to get on airplanes, open a bank account, enter federal buildings, and much more. But with state legislatures and Congressional representatives increasingly turning against the REAL ID Act, you can help stop this costly, privacy-invasive mandate. Use the link below to voice your opposition.
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy...rAction&id=275
.
Dear Freedom lovers,
I have some very sad news to report concerning Real ID in Pennsylvania. Penn Dot has unfortunately decided to go ahead and begin to implement a series of benchmarks set forth by the Department of Homeland Security, without hearing any debate in the PA House or Senate. H.B. 1351 against the Real ID Act has not even been debated on the floor yet.
At this time Penn Dot has implemented almost all of the benchmarks, including making use of biometric facial scanning technology called Face explore.
Just yesterday at work I had in my hands another benchmark which most likely seals the deal that Penn Dot has the Real ID system up an running in PA. During the course of my work I must ask people for their ID cards to take down information contained on them. Yesterday a woman gave me her PA drivers license and I noticed it looked different right away. It looked and felt exactly like a regular drivers license but on the right and left sides where the normal cards would be blue and yellow hers were silver, and in big red letters across the entire license was the word "Temporary".
I asked her what this was and she said that she went to get her license renewed the day before and she said they gave her this temporary card because she had wait at least 15 days for her real card due to a background check.
A background check was another benchmark for Real ID. It looks like Pennsylvania will have Real ID well in place before the May 2008 deadline originally given by the Department if Homeland Security back in 2005. In fact at a hearing in Philadelphia just last week Penn Dot revealed how far along they were in implementing Real ID. At that hearing they said they had completed 11 of the 18 elements which, they stated, did not include the two most expensive elements, the background check, and something about getting your picture taken first instead of at the end of the process. This shows how rapidly they are advancing in their plans. And so it begins... The next step will be the chip.
If this makes you as mad as it makes me there is still something that we can do about it. We can urge our state representatives to co-sponsor H.B. 1351 and get it out of committee and put it to a vote on the House Floor. This would kill Real ID in PA no matter what Penn Dot has went ahead and done. Also we can urge our representatives that are part of the appropriations committee to cut funding to Penn Dot to the point where they can no longer do this.
It's going to take action! We must show up at that hearing on March 13 (Details or on the meetup site) and let them know that we do not want Real ID. Right now Penn Dot is playing us for fools, they think that we are too busy with our own lives to even know or care what they are up to behind our backs. They think that we won't even care that they took their marching orders from the Department of Homeland Security rather than the State Legislature like they are supposed to.
WE HAVE TO GET MAD!! This rally is going to be a turning point. We will draw the line here, and the state will not dare to cross it! Stand up with us now to show Penn Dot and our state government that we do not want Real ID!!!
I for one refuse to take the ID card or the Chip. I am prepared not to drive for the rest of my life if thats what it takes. I am not prepared to sacrifice any ounce of Liberty of so called "privileges" like driving.
A dark, dark day has begun in Pennsylvania thanks to Penn Dot. Let's fight it with everything that we got!!
In Liberty and Truth,
Nick
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please write your representatives people! Even if you don't live in Pa you can write your own states reps with link at bottom.
Help Repeal the REAL ID Act!
The federal government has taken another step towards forcing you to carry a national ID in order to get on airplanes, open a bank account, enter federal buildings, and much more. But with state legislatures and Congressional representatives increasingly turning against the REAL ID Act, you can help stop this costly, privacy-invasive mandate. Use the link below to voice your opposition.
https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy...rAction&id=275
.