States Continue to Fight REAL ID

 

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Federal programs almost never die. Bureaucrats and their
big-government allies are still trying to cobble together an American
national ID. ~ Jim Harper

Leaders in the states continue to fight. In this case, it’s
Michigan state representative and House transportation committee
chairman Paul Opsommer (R-DeWitt).

In response to a recent report citing
state compliance with REAL ID “benchmarks,” he’s put out a scathing
report that was written up in the River Country (MI) Journal.

“The things we have done in Michigan, like making sure
illegal aliens cannot get driver’s licenses, we are doing independently
of REAL ID, and we are not interested in allowing the federal government
to have permanent control over our licenses,” said Opsommer.

“You can
bet your bottom dollar that at some point if Obamacare is not repealed
that the federal government will adopt new rules in the future requiring
the cards’ use for access to healthcare. You can bet they will require
it to buy a firearm.

You can bet they ultimately want to put RFID chips
into all these and share our full data with Canada, Mexico, and beyond.
If we don’t repeal Title II of the REAL ID Act, all we are doing is
putting off the ‘I told you so’ moment for a few years down the road.”

The tensions that the Framers of the Constitution designed into our
governmental structure are doing their work through Rep. Opsommer.

“State documents should be state documents, and federal documents should be federal documents,” he says.

“If the federal government is bent on having a national
ID card, they need to get their own house in order and start to make
federal passports more secure and more affordable.

Quit trying to
outsource your own mismanagement of the federal passport system onto the
states and let us get onto the business of issuing our own safe and
secure sovereign driver’s licenses.”

The bureaucrats will keep at it at least until the Congress defunds
REAL ID. But they’ll keep bumping into the likes or Rep. Paul Opsommer.

 

Jim Harper – March 1, 2012 – posted at BeforeIt’sNews

 

Source Cato@Liberty

 

 

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