Wednesday, March 5, 2008

ACTION!! Let's go to the NGA

At long last, we see that state governments are, at the very least, putting off Real ID with extensions until they can get the money or until they can get their bearings organized underneath them.

Today, I ask you to focus on the Governor's offices of your own state and making at least one to two phone calls on behalf of repealing the Real ID. Then you should pick on the National Governors Association for being chief organizers and chairs of collusion to "help" governors actualize this bill when it should have been shot dead on the legislative floor. Please take a gander at the list of "Corporate Fellows" - which our fiends Digimarc are among them.

Listen, take heart, I am a blogger. I am not a media python squeezing news from the bullshit that government PIO's dump on my desk. What I want is the Real ID act repealed. I will do my best to take you down this road together and report what I find, however biased it is.

Spychips.com's , author Katherine Albrecht has made a recommended contribution of concerned citizens in New Hampshire gagging on the new "pat down " application of this law. If you don't want to be chipped - do something about it. At the very least you will feel better.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Airports blamed for playing Real ID heavy

Reports prior to this one have indicated that Real ID has been a big pain in the ass for airports to implement as it was when they were forced to implement extra security measures for average citizens such as : taking your shoes off , additional expenses for more xray machines, longer lines for crankier and crankier travellers to be pulled aside and hassled for hints of a terrorist profile.

CNBC reports : WASHINGTON - Homeland Security officials are pushing recalcitrant states to adopt stricter driver's license standards to end a standoff that could disrupt domestic air travel.
States have less than a month to send a letter to the Homeland Security Department seeking an extension to comply with the Real ID law passed following the 2001 terror attacks. Some states have resisted, saying it is costly, impractical and an invasion of privacy.

Four states _ Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and South Carolina _ have yet to seek an extension.

SUPPORT THESE STATES BY WRITING YOUR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS, CALLING YOUR GOVERNORS OFFICE AND BEATING DOWN DIGIMARC'S DOOR TELLING THEM YOU WON'T PAY FOR IT!!

More news from CNET:

States say no (and yes) to Real ID before May deadline

DHS: Real ID is 'pro-consumer' and 'antiterrorism'