April 15, 2025
Real I.D., Real Bad
Timothy Birdnow
As of May 7 the Federal government will require all Americans to have a so-called "real i.d." to board airplanes or other public transportation, to enter Federal buildings, or to go to nuclear power plants (Drat and double drat! Now what am I going to do for recreation!)
Q quick thought; the Democrats tell us the poor and immigrants are incapable of obtaining driver's lisences and that it is an undue burdon on them to present them when voting, yet they are apparently fine with making them get a real i.d., which entials presenting a birth certificate, social security card, and proof of residency. It's MUCH harder to get the federal i.d. than a state one, yet the Dems are perfectly happy with discriminating against the poor and immigrants in this way but won't allow anyone to prove they actually are who they say and are eligible to vote.
IF the Democrats truly believe their own arguments about voting they would demand the law be rescinded over the real i.d. Their arguments are even more salient in this case. But they remain strangely silent.
And will you kill more people with a bomb on an airplane than a bomb at the polls? I've been at the polling places on big elections and there were hundreds of people who would die if someone smuggled in a bomb, and nobody is there doing security. Why do you need to inconvenience the average American at the airport but not at the polling place?
I wish Trump would twist Mike Johnson's arm and get this silly law repealed. It is nothing but a power grab by the Feds. Furthermore, have any of the post-911 reforms actually saved lives? We don't know. Granted, they haven't pulled off another 911 style hijacking, but they tipped their hand then and such a trick has diminishing returns. I suspect we did as well or better before creating the TSA and all the rest. Many airports have gone away from using TSA screeners because they are basically the post-office who give body cavity searches.
The real i.d. will be easy to circumvent and only will end up applying to honest folks. But then, in my mind, it always WAS intended for that, to give the Federal Government greater control and knowledge of the whereabouts of the citizenry. Stopping terrorism was secondary.
As of May 7 the Federal government will require all Americans to have a so-called "real i.d." to board airplanes or other public transportation, to enter Federal buildings, or to go to nuclear power plants (Drat and double drat! Now what am I going to do for recreation!)
Q quick thought; the Democrats tell us the poor and immigrants are incapable of obtaining driver's lisences and that it is an undue burdon on them to present them when voting, yet they are apparently fine with making them get a real i.d., which entials presenting a birth certificate, social security card, and proof of residency. It's MUCH harder to get the federal i.d. than a state one, yet the Dems are perfectly happy with discriminating against the poor and immigrants in this way but won't allow anyone to prove they actually are who they say and are eligible to vote.
IF the Democrats truly believe their own arguments about voting they would demand the law be rescinded over the real i.d. Their arguments are even more salient in this case. But they remain strangely silent.
And will you kill more people with a bomb on an airplane than a bomb at the polls? I've been at the polling places on big elections and there were hundreds of people who would die if someone smuggled in a bomb, and nobody is there doing security. Why do you need to inconvenience the average American at the airport but not at the polling place?
I wish Trump would twist Mike Johnson's arm and get this silly law repealed. It is nothing but a power grab by the Feds. Furthermore, have any of the post-911 reforms actually saved lives? We don't know. Granted, they haven't pulled off another 911 style hijacking, but they tipped their hand then and such a trick has diminishing returns. I suspect we did as well or better before creating the TSA and all the rest. Many airports have gone away from using TSA screeners because they are basically the post-office who give body cavity searches.
The real i.d. will be easy to circumvent and only will end up applying to honest folks. But then, in my mind, it always WAS intended for that, to give the Federal Government greater control and knowledge of the whereabouts of the citizenry. Stopping terrorism was secondary.
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Posted by: anonymo at April 15, 2025 08:59 AM (qV/ql)
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This Real ID thing is, if you ask me, a whole lot of smoke but no fire. My wife and I went through the rigmarole of getting them this year. I had no trouble, but my wife had a lot of fuss. She's been married three times, with me being number three. All three marriages are nicely documented, and so are her two divorces, all with stamped and embossed certificates. And so is her birth certificate. But the first functionary at the Motor Vehicles Bureau who looked at everything was apparently overwhelmed by the volume of paperwork and just said "We can't accept all this." My wife said "Yes you can," and walked her through the paperwork piece by piece, and after the girl had called in somebody else to help her, she finally got everything approved and took my wife over to take her photo. Meanwhile I was waiting because mine was all done.
Six weeks later we got our new licenses, and they don't look a damn bit different from the old ones. I'm just waiting to present mine somewhere and have some a**hole say "This isn't a Real ID."
Six weeks later we got our new licenses, and they don't look a damn bit different from the old ones. I'm just waiting to present mine somewhere and have some a**hole say "This isn't a Real ID."
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at April 16, 2025 11:29 PM (QSsdw)
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Posted by: anonymous at April 17, 2025 09:07 AM (t5zEM)
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That's about how I expected it to go. I'm not surprised Dana.
I have no idea where my birth certificate or social security card may be and I don't relish digging through the masses of paperwork to find them. I find it insulting that I have to prove I am a citizen to a government that has collected taxes on me for sixty years now. They should be doing this work, not me. I am very easily vetted.
I suppose I'll have to get one of these things before I start collecting social security.
I have no idea where my birth certificate or social security card may be and I don't relish digging through the masses of paperwork to find them. I find it insulting that I have to prove I am a citizen to a government that has collected taxes on me for sixty years now. They should be doing this work, not me. I am very easily vetted.
I suppose I'll have to get one of these things before I start collecting social security.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at April 18, 2025 07:18 AM (hSRe8)
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It continues to baffle me how the left wants to require proof of who you are in order to get on a fucking airplane, but insists that it is a violation of human rights and of the constitution do do so in order to vote.
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