Meetup details changed: Meeting about the Real ID (National ID) Program in Alabama

Announcing a new Meetup for Constitution Party of Alabama!

What: Meeting about the Real ID (National ID) Program in Alabama

When: January 29, 2009 6:30 PM

Where: Click the link below to find out!

Meetup Description: The Real ID and you: what it is, how it effects you and what you can do about it!

The Alabama legislature is getting ready to convene for the year, and it is time to let them know what the citizens of Alabama need. This is your chance to hear about plans well underway to brand you with a national/global ID database through you Alabama drivers license. Did you know when you renew your drivers license that The Alabama Department of Public Safety will be taking biometric information with your photo without telling you? Find out about this & much more this coming Thurs.!

What’s wrong with a national identity card?
The true problem is not the piece of plastic itself, but the construction of a larger network of identity papers, databases, biometric information, status and identity checks and access control points – in short, what has been called an “internal passport.” If the old driver’s license represented a license to drive – the government’s very specific permission to operate a vehicle on the public roadways – the fear is that the new documents will become tantamount to a license to leave your house. 

National IDs would violate privacy by helping to consolidate data. There is an enormous and ever increasing amount of data being collected about Americans today. One’s grocery store, for example, might use a “loyalty card” to keep detailed records of what you buy, while Amazon keeps records of what you read, the airlines keep track of where you fly, and so on. This can be an invasion of privacy, but our privacy has actually been protected by the fact that all this information still remains scattered across many different databases. But once the government, landlords, employers, or other powerful forces gain the ability to draw together all this information, our privacy will really be destroyed. And, that is exactly what a national identity system would facilitate.

A national, ID like Real ID would also facilitate tracking. When a police officer or security guard
scans your ID card with his pocket bar-code reader, for example, it will likely create a permanent
record of that check, including the time and your location. How long before office buildings, doctors’ offices, gas stations, highway tolls, subways and buses incorporate the ID card into their security or payment systems for greater efficiency? The end result could be a situation where citizens’ movements inside their own country are monitored and recorded through these “internal passports.".

Please come to this meeting and bring some friends. We need all the help we can get to keep our liberties. 

For questions or more information please feel free to email or call 256-729-8867.