On My Mind: Are You Ready For Real ID?

In this month's issue of  The Association of Mature American Citizens (The Amac)

Magazine, writer Jeff Szymanski asks the question which should concern 

 all Americans:  "Real ID: Are You Ready for the Change?"

 States Should Reject Real ID

The Cato Institute

May 11, 2015

What he is referring to- Real ID- is the final implementation of the 9/11

Commission's recommendation to, "set the standards for the issuance of

source identification, such as driver's licenses."

Passed by Congress and President George W. Bush in 2005,

 this law, which will go into effect on October 1, 2020, will require

states to use new counterfeit resistant technology to prevent document forgery. 

According to the article,  all air travelers aged 18 and over, will

 be required to have a Real ID compliant driver's license or some

 other acceptable form of ID-by October 1, 2020- even if their flight merely

 takes them across the country from New York to Los Angeles.  Although the

states began to issue licenses which were Real ID compliant many years ago,

how will you know if you already have one?  According to the article, you need

to check your existing license for a star or another similar symbol.

Although in the state of Florida nearly 100% of residents there

have a license or state ID card which is Real ID compliant, many

states have fought this mandate, claiming it as an intrusion of

federal power into an area which has been for many years

the responsibility of state governments.

Personally, and in the wake of the recent tragic shooting in Pensacola,

I see this pending implementation of  Real ID, a waste of time, not to

mention another encroachment on the privacy rights of American citizens 

 by the ever over reaching arm of the federal government. 

 Did a tracking system like Real ID prevent a Saudi national from

shooting people down in cold blood? Will people like this killer,

who came from a country which, not so long ago, was widely

 known for their support of international terrorism-and from 

 where fifteen of the nineteen hijackers on 9/11 came from- 

 be required to carry a form of Real ID to travel back and

forth across the country?  Or, will this impending measure 

apply only to natural born American citizens?

 The same federal government ready to implement Real ID

 next fall is the same government in 2017 which fought President Trump's

initiative of serious vetting by blocking his ban on travel from seven

Islamic nations known to sponsor international terrorism.  

 If the Democrats have their way, those who have been

brain-washed to hate us and trained to kill innocent people will 

 simply be permitted to walk across our borders unhindered 

in their unholy quest to subjugate and conquer us.

  It's a waste of time to guard the hen house after 

a passel of vicious weasels have been turned loose on it. 

An unnecessary measure like Real ID, when there are already state

laws in place to aid or correct the problems of personal identification

 will be how the enemies of the American people, with the help

  of our intrusive government in Washington, and the "open borders"

socialist agitators sitting in the Congress, will gain a larger and

 more dangerous foothold within our nation without really trying.

  In fact, as we have witnessed with the tragedy in Florida,

 they're already here among us.

America could learn a lot by adopting Israel's air travel

security methods as our own, and spare American citizens

much of the frustration they are being forced to go through
at airports across the nation today.

Israel Airport Security

Stephanie Freid