Days left for Governor to sign HB 361 Real ID Repeal. Time for citizen pressure.
TIME TO START CALLING…..Days left until he must by law either Sign or Veto HB 361 to repeal Real ID!
7/12 is the deadline for action………..
Office of Governor Jay Nixon
P.O. Box 720
Jefferson City, MO 65102
(573) 751-3222
PLEASE CALL, EVEN IF YOU SEND AN EMAIL OR LETTER, PLEASE CALL ON THE TELEPHONE!
NOBODY WAS ANSWERING THE PHONE DURING SEVERAL ATTEMPTS, PLEASE CONTINUE TO TRY!
IF YOU GET THROUGH, PLEASE ASK FOR THEM TO ANSWER THE PHONE THROUGH NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS OR IMPLEMENT AN ANSWERING SYSTEM FOR WHEN THERE IS NO STAFFER AT THE PHONE.
http://governor.mo.gov/contact/
The Real ID act is not even fully implemented, yet several Americans are finding it difficult to get a State Driver’s License under regulations imposed on the states by this Federal Law.
The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution makes the State of Missouri capable of having its own criteria for licensing motor vehicle operators, and I hope that we can allow State Lawmakers the power of a common sense approach without unfunded mandates from Washington special interests.
Identification is an issue talked about from every bar, security firm, and governmental agency to science fiction novels and movies and even the Bible. Many Americans believe that some requirements of Real ID or the discussion that it creates, could lead to unnecessary technological advancement controlling how human beings are identified and tracked through society.
Whether this fear is imagined or realized, the Real ID is not a step that the people are comfortable with, and some fear it could lead to unneeded databases of lawful citizens based upon information irrelevant to fighting crime or personal identification purposes. Despite promises from the former DHS Secretary Chertoff that Real ID databases will not be shared nor breached unnecessarily, or that it somehow fights terrorism or immigration, it does not require an identification to survive in the world undocumented, and you do not need a government license to commit acts of terror, so the only people volunteering their information to be shared in these highly networked databases are Legal, Lawful citizens.
The Federal Government’s guarantee of security when it comes to databases of private citizen information has proven improbable. News stories from the past few years are full of reports of stolen or lost Federal Government data. Even the President’s own Helicopter’s Plans was a risk factor earlier this year due to an information breach.
