Dear Editor:
Are you aware that by May 2008 the law will require you to carry a national ID card? Some even want all Americans, their pets and farm animals embedded with a Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) computer chip under the skin so they can be tracked wherever they go.
Congress “sneaked in” passage of the REAL ID ACT of 2005 by attaching it to an emergency supplemental appropriations bill (H.R. 1268). It was signed into law by President Bush on May 11, 2005. The REAL ID establishes a massive, centrally coordinated database of highly personal information about American citizens: at a minimum their name, date of birth, place of residence, Social Security number and physical characteristics.
It also grants open-ended authority to the Secretary of Homeland Security to require biometric information on IDs in the future. This means your harmless-looking driver’s license could contain a retina scan, fingerprints, DNA information or radio frequency technology. Personally, I just now discovered this unbelievable attack on our personal liberty.
Like many Americans I have perhaps been asleep at the wheel and allowed our “out of control” government to creep towards this state of Orwellian fascism. What is next? I hope you will wake up as have I, and stop this ungodly move to squelch our freedom. Benjamin Franklin once said that those who give up liberty for the sake of security deserve neither.
Please call your congressmen and stop this NOW! The only 2008 candidate for president that I have seen that has even addressed this issue is Ron Paul.
-Stephanie Moore

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