YOUR COMMENTS

Who in their right mind would believe that putting all our eggs in the basket of a national ID card is going to make us safer? Yes, please, in a few years when they sell you on the convenience of having your bank account numbers tagged on to your RealID RFID information, anyone with the technical knowledge can just run an RF scanner over a crowd, collect your data, decrypt it, and go for a shopping spree on your dime. Or, worse, locate the highest concentration of Americans and set off a bomb. RealID is a real bad idea.
- Jerimiah Jones, New York, NY

I just got a new passport. I have to get a new drivers license next year. Now I get to have a National ID. Why don't I just have them put all this information in a chip and implant it in my hand? No muss, no fuss! Isn't that really the idea of all this. Satan is surely busy at the Capital. I will not take the mark and spend eternity in hell. Those of you who want to consider this nothing to be concerned about, might want to take a closer look.
- Kay Spruill, R. N., Kasilof, Alaska

This is another move towards a police state. They want to get an RFID tag in them as well and along the future im sure they will put better ones in there that will allow them to scan everyone as they drive around, walk in the mall, etc. Always tracking you. One day your entire information will be on it and instead of using your Credit Card youll swipe you ID card that will have all your information on it. Sounds kinda cool but then you think about all the BAD uses of it for that little bit on convenience and coolness. They would really trully be able to control the whole population if they wanted. It would kill the little privicy you have left by being able to monitor in real time where you are and where you have been with very little oversite. Is this how WE want America? I dont want that. We need to Repeal this law that would have never passed if it wasnt slipped in to begin with. Tell your Reps that you want it repealed and to vote in the Read the bills act.
- James Eames, Virginia beach, Va

The national ID is only one manifestation of a growing problem: the increased willingness of our "leaders" to sacrifice our privacy and liberty for the purpose of achieving some ill-defined "security." Truthfully, once this issue fades into obscurity voters will have to remain vigilant against the next effort to revoke their liberty.
- Donald Cameron, New York, NY

I remember being a very small child at the tail end of the Vietnam War. Always inquisitive and encouraged to ask questions, I asked my father what made the Soviet Union so much worse than America. One of the things that he explained to me was that in the USSR, people were made to carry national ID cards, and that not having one was a hallmark of a free society. I believe that to this day.
Dr. Ron Paul's courage to stand up to the call for this draconian measure shows that he alone among all the Republican candidates for President honestly stand with us, the proud Independent voters of NH.
John McCain tries to project an independent air for no other reason than political gain in New Hampshire. He sides with George Bush where it matters most - continuing war, whose costs in lives and money will take away our children's very futures.
Mitt Romney is another blue-blood Massachusetts politician with an over priced haircut - but enough on him - we've seen John Kerry before.
The people I love are too important for me to trust to those people and policies that have been failing us for the last seven years.
Ron Paul for President - no REAL-ID, No Income Tax, No War.

JM
- James Maynard, Temple, NH

Control, control and control. Americans will have no more freedom when the Federal government controls everything.
America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, but after 9/11 did it turn to be the land of the controled and home of the scared?
- Geraldo Vieira, Lake worth Florida

The difficulty in assessing the problems with realID is the need to have faith in the government that they won't use it for other purposes. Consider carefully our leaders' track records. Temporary taxes live on forever. Social security that was declared at it's inception to never be used as an ID has indeed become one. This is just a further step in the nearly inevitable progress of the government knowing all-and controlling all of each persons private affairs. As long as each inroad into our freedom is attached to a fear, or problem currently facing the public, we blindly accept it. Usually the problem needing to be solved was of the governments own making. Personally I can't trust them with this degree of intervention into my life.
- Robert, Janesville, WI

"As specified by legislation, the Real ID is a secure card issued by states to be used only for the following reasons: to access a federal facility, board federally regulated commercial aircraft and enter nuclear plants."

This is factually false. Real ID is a set of standards to be imposed on state IDs, without which one could not "access a federal facility, board federally regulated commercial aircraft [or] enter nuclear plants." It is intended that all states' drivers' licenses be turned into federally compliant Real IDs.

Oh, and those standards and all details of what Real ID would require would legally be solely and entirely at the discretion (if we're lucky, at the whim if we're not) of the Secretary of Homeland Security of the moment. Which Bernie Kerik almost was.

There are many reasons why Real ID is opposed from both sides of the aisle and all parts of the political spectrum in NH, and why the Legislature overwhelmingly passed, and the Governor signed, a bill preventing NH from taking part in it.
- Tim C., Canterbury

Voting Fraud is an individual state issue; not a federal government. Maybe you should spend some time a actually read the Constitution. Real ID is about federal control and we do not need it. Thankfully our state wisely rejected it as "... is contrary and repugnant to Articles 1 through 10 of the New Hampshire constitution as well as Amendments 4 though 10 of the Constitution for the United States of America." (from the NH bill)
- TM, Nashua

I have to question the motives of those who are against Real ID. I want an end to the massive voter fraud that occurs in each election and Real ID is a step in the right direction.
- Joe V., Nashua

Senator Sununu may have objected to it but he still voted in favor of it.
- George O., Berlin

Under their kultursmog of 'privacy', the ACLU fights to enable voter fraud and massive illegal immigration. genuine hard-to-forge ID card makes voter identification fool-proof (the dead can no longer vote) and employment status quickly verifiable. If you are that worried about 'privacy', chances are you stay as far away from The System as you can anyway.
- Gene Smith, Contoocook, NH

Issuing of driver's licenses is up to each state. We already have a national ID and it's called a passport. This document is recognized around the world. If our national security agencies can't figure out how to track them why do we think they'll be any better at creating/maintaining yet another identification level to gather our information.
- Kathy, Fremont