Let's be real about Real ID.

"[Today the US Senate voted {100-0!}] on the implementation of a national ID card system [a measure that was a rider to the military spending bill for US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan]. The Real ID Act is nothing less than a 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 [the federal government]...*

"In order to make [Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI] happy, the Senate leadership let him write the bill and then slipped it into the military spending bill... Supporting our troops means making sure they come home to a free nation, not a surveillance state."

The opening statement of UnRealID.com, where you can (must!) contact your senators.

* "[Real ID would] likely take the place of your driver’s license and store at the very minimum your name, birthdate, sex, ID number, a digital photograph and address, with the possibility of additional data such as a fingerprint or retinal scan... Homeland Security hasn’t decided what machine-readable technology they’ll use, but they’re leaning heavily towards RFID, since the chips are [what DHS wants to embed] in passports."


For more, refer to:

R U ready for Real ID?

How Real ID will affect you.

What's so scary about a national ID?

National ID cards won't stop terrorism or illegal immigration.