[kabar]

I don’t have time to argue with you. I suggest you spend time reading things about Real ID other than this one recent article. You are late to the game, and the guy who wrote this, has it wrong.

I am very familiar with the Real ID act. The Reps in the House, namely Jim Sensenbrenner, fought a tough fight to get it passed. The Dems fought against it because they want their buddies in ACORN to continue with their voter fraud and they want to protect the "undocumented workers." And the terrorists are given free reign. The 20 9/11 hijackers had 65 state driver's licenses between them.

The link I provided was from DHS. Oh, by the way, your good pal, Janet Napolitano is trying to get it repealed. Homeland Security chief seeks to repeal Real ID Act

Obama and his toadies are dismanteling our security safeguards, including Real ID. For those of us who work on the immigration issue lobbying on the Hill, the real reason they want to kill Real ID is because Obama doesn't want to hassle the illegal aliens who are running around without driver's licenses or have used fraudulent documents to get them. And there are four states that issue drivers licenses to illegals.

I gather you are a Libertarian who can care less about our borders or voting fraud. I suggest you read the actual legislation. Also, what is your solution to sorting out the 12 to 30 million illegals living amongst us and the tens of thousands of potential terrorists who are entering our country. What documents do you propose that we use to demonstrate that someone is here legally? What ID document do you use to board an aircraft? Do you support E-Verify?

[Wallace T.]

It's amazing that this country had prolonged conflicts with the Communist bloc for over 40 years, and a four year war with Germany and Japan for four years, yet we managed to triumph in these conflicts without the imposition of national IDs. These powers were all far more formidable than are the Muslim terrorists, and also had a considerable body of domestic sympathizers, such as German-American Bund and the Christian Front during World War II and the Communist Party and its fellow travelers during the Cold War. Yet, unless you were a young man of military age during World War II or a Communist or a sympathizer during the 1950s, your freedoms were not restricted. As for immigration, this country did an effective job in controlling that problem from 1920 to 1965, without resorting to mandatory identification. The Eisenhower administration did an effective job in rounding up and deporting illegals in the Southwest without imposing controls on the general population.

The idea of Federal involvement in these matters is also unsupported by the Constitution, unless you can find it in the penumbras and emanations of which liberals seem so fond.