NEWS HEADLINES: Enforcement Of Controversial REAL ID Begins * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

Enforcement Of Controversial REAL ID Begins * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

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The enforcement of REAL ID went into effect on Wednesday, May 7th.

“The REAL ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005, enacted the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the Federal Government ‘set standards for the issuance of sources of identification, such as driver’s licenses,’” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated.

“The Act established minimum security standards for license issuance and production and prohibits certain federal agencies from accepting for certain purposes driver’s licenses and identification cards from states not meeting the Act’s minimum standards,” it added.

“Starting TODAY, May 7, you will need a Real ID to fly. Real IDs make identification harder to forge, thwarting criminals and terrorists. If you plan to fly, make sure you get a Real ID so you won’t face travel delays!” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.

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A REAL ID is a security-enhanced, state-issued driver’s license, learner’s permit or nondriver identification card that is offered by all 50 states.

“Beginning May 7, 2025 every state and territory resident will need to present a REAL ID-compliant license/ID, or another acceptable form of identification, for accessing federal facilities, entering nuclear power plants, and boarding commercial aircraft,” according to the DHS website. “The card, itself, must be REAL ID compliant unless the resident is using an alternative acceptable document such as a passport or passport card, or state-issued Enhanced Driver’s License.”

“Starting on May 7, 2025, a state-issued driver’s license or ID that is not REAL ID compliant will no longer be accepted as a valid form of identification at airports,” the TSA said on its website.

REAL ID-compliant identification cards are marked with a star on the top right corner. The star is usually black or gold and may vary depending on the state.

“REAL ID enforcement begins TODAY. If you’re flying within the U.S. you will need a REAL ID or other acceptable form of ID or you may experience additional screening,” the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wrote.

“If you have a non-compliant state ID or driver’s license and do not have another acceptable form of ID, you’ll be notified of your noncompliance (see photo below), and you may be directed to a separate area and may receive additional screening,” it added.

However, critics have called REAL ID useless, invasive, and tyrannical.

“Real ID isn’t needed and won’t stop terrorists from hijacking planes. Most of the 9/11 hijackers held Saudi, UAE, Egyptian, or Lebanese passports. Real ID is a national standard and database of IDs that is primarily a tool for control of Americans. Trump shouldn’t enforce it,” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) previously said.

Massie shared a video of former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul discussing REAL ID.

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“REAL ID is Tyrannical,” Paul said last month.

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“Authored By The Same Author of The Patriot Act!” he added.

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From The Mises Institute:

The truth is that the Real ID is just the latest chapter in the federal government’s twenty-plus years of using 9/11 as an excuse to protect and expand its power.

Washington could have pursued the most plausible path to avoid future 9/11s by calling off the completely unnecessary meddling it had been conducting in the Middle East. The wars our government had waged, supplied, and bankrolled in the region had first strengthened the popularity of anti-American thought among certain radical factions of Sunni Islamists. Osama bin Laden was then able to seize on that sentiment and use his reputation as an anti-Soviet fighter in Afghanistan to convince a couple hundred followers to adopt his strategy of targeting the US directly to draw the Americans into a war like the one he thought led to the Soviet Union’s collapse.

Instead, American politicians and bureaucrats decided to act as though the American public’s security could best be attained if they first gave themselves significantly more power and then used it to try and pacify the entire Middle East with the very same methods that had just convinced nineteen young men to fly planes into American buildings.

And as the neoconservatives and establishment war hawks have helped boost the popularity of bin Ladenite thought with over two decades of relentless wars, incursions, covert operations, and air campaigns, American officials also seized on the opportunity to expand their power here at home.

The federal government, of course, nationalized airport security—even though the private contractors handling it before were already tasked specifically with enforcing FAA rules, and the 9/11 hijackers had not packed anything that the FAA prevented them from taking on the plane. The attack was not an airport screening failure. But now it’s all handled by a group that will continue to operate in every commercial airport in the country regardless of how abysmal it is at detecting banned items.

Beyond the airport, the federal government gave itself sweeping new authorities to conduct surveillance on everyone, including American citizens, with the passage of the Patriot Act. Taking after the regime in Beijing that they love to demonize for the same reasons, federal bureaucrats in Washington built up extensive systems to monitor digital communication and track the American population with technologies like facial recognition.

Real ID is the next major development in that effort. While the federal requirements, as of now, are limited to the specific documents and “mandatory facial image capture” needed to attain a state ID, the law leaves the government plenty of room to expand those requirements to include biometric identifiers in federal databases like retinal scans, fingerprints, or DNA.

In other words, while the issues with the initial Real ID rollout will mostly be limited to a few occasional long waits at the DMV or airport, the bill lays the groundwork for the federal government to force anyone who wants a state ID to forfeit biometric identifiers or facial recognition data to federal databases that would constitute the kind of detailed de facto national ID system that the biggest tyrants of history could have only dreamed of wielding.





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