If you live in North Carolina, you may have heard the expression "First in Freedom" a few times. That phrase
has long been something of an unofficial second state motto here, to the extent that it used to appear on NC license
plates where they now say "First in Flight." The history of the phrase dates to something called the Mecklenburg
Declaration - an event which is debated by historians - where a group of citizens in Mecklenburg County, NC were the
first Americans to declare independence from Great Britian.
Whether that even happened as reported or not, there is no doubt that North Carolina and it's people have a
long history of embracing Freedom and Liberty as core values. Now however, we see that corruption and decay
have reduced this once proud state to a level where state official are *bragging* about their compliance with
a totalitarian National ID law passed by the Federal government in 2005.
Now, living in a state which - by all rights - should have been the FIRST state to reject this law, we have our
state officials making statements like this:
Therefore, North Carolina is preparing as best it can to come into compliance with the law by May 2008.
North Carolina has made many strides since early 2004 as part of Governor Easley’s Operation Stop Fraud.
On February 2, 2004 we implemented new, tougher standards for proof of identification. These new standards restricted the use of ID documents to those which could be verified as needed. The standards restricted the acceptance of foreign documents, except for the use of valid, unexpired foreign passports.
In early 2004, the Division implemented verification of Social Security Numbers. In 2005, we implemented fraudulent document recognition training, requiring all examiners and License and Theft inspectors to complete a nationally-certified 20-hour course. Later that year, we implemented the use of face recognition technology, which has proven extremely valuable. A year ago, we also began tying the expiration date of a driver license to the expiration date of the Visa for customers with visas. On August 28, we implemented the new law eliminating the use of ITINs.
We have also implemented the use of an OVD overlay on the face of the license. Later this year, we will be the first state in the nation to implement the use of the new common security element recommended for all states. This will be an OVD patch on the back of the license.
As a result of North Carolina’s actions, there are many parts of the REAL ID law that North Carolina is already in compliance with.
Now having seen North Carolina's reaction to Real ID, let's examine what our neighbors in South Carolina had to say:
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 1, TITLE 56, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 56-1-85 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE SHALL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL REAL ID ACT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Nonparticipation
SECTION 1. Chapter 1, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 56-1-85. The State shall not participate in the implementation of the federal REAL ID Act."
There you go. Short, sweet and to the point. Now, are we here in North Carolina going to sit back and accept that South Carolinians love Freedom
more than we do? I, for one, say most emphatically "NO." I say it is time for us to take action, one way or another. This rampant abuse by the Federal government must not be allowed to stand, and
North Carolina should be at the front of the pack in opposing this unconscionable nonsense. So to all you reading this, I ask that you
please contact your House and Senate representatives in the NC General Assembly and
a resolution mirroring the one passed by South Carolina (and Utah, Maine, and several other states as well).
It's time for North Carolina to retake her place as a shining beacon of Liberty and Freedom. And if the leaders we have
in place now won't acknowledge that, it is time to remove them from power.
2 comments:
i am deeply saddened, but not very surprised, to discover that our elected NC representatives have so warmly embraced the Federal "Real ID Act".
this act, along with other anti-American legislation like the "USA PATRIOT Act", continues to perpetrate a grievous crime against We the People, disgracing every single American who has ever served and given his life in the name of freedom.
such authoritarian laws undermine the very essence of individual liberty, upon which our country was based. if our Founding Fathers were still alive, as if immortal, all these years of our nation's history, they would have surely advocated a massive revolution even by the time the 14th & 16th Amendments were enacted.
while our federal government wages a mock 'war on terrorism', it continues passing into law Nazi-like dictates which serve to strengthen the terrorist movement, rather than thwarting it.
by the looks of it, this 'Real ID Act' will be imposed upon Americans without hardly noticing a difference in their NC "driver's license" when they go to renew it later this year. perhaps not as deceptive as the government contract most all Americans entered into at birth without choice — the Social Security system — but seemingly along the same lines.
have our government 'leaders' merely been deceived and misguided to the point of no turning back on this drive to continue passing such anti-American legislation? or are they deliberately attempting to destroy what remaining vestige of liberty our country has left?
JUST SAY NO TO TYRANNY!
8-)
bernard baruch carman
North Carolina Residents: Real ID Guinea Pigs
By Jim Palmer
August 8, 2007
A couple of Days ago, I received a phone call from an aide from the office of Representative Jim Guest of Missouri. Jim Guest had recently been to North Carolina, to make more people aware of the Real ID and its negative impact.
Their mission of teaching soon turned into a shocking discovery. While in Raleigh, Representative Guest held up his driver's license to demonstrate what information the current driver's licenses have on them and how much information can be held in a one-dimensional bar code, compared to a two-dimensional bar code. He pointed out that a one-dimensional bar code can hold the information that is on the front of the license. This includes your name, address, license number, etc. A two-dimensional bar code holds enough information to fill a set of encyclopedias.
Before Representative Guest could finish his talking points, a man stood up and said, "My license doesn't have any of that", referring to the one-dimensional bar code. Jim's aide asked him when he obtained his license and he informed the aide it was very recent. The aide looked it over and said that it had the two-dimensional bar code and even more interestingly, it had a hologram with the headlights of a car and an outline of North America. Holograms are often used as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip.
The danger of RFID technology is that anyone with a scanner can walk by a person with the license and gather their information. That information could include their name, address, date of birth, fingerprints, digital image, social security number and any other information put on the RFID chip.
I was not able to reach anyone by phone at the NC Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), who would or could confirm that driver's licenses are now being issued with a RFID. In fact, no one at the DMV (at least those that I spoke with on the telephone) seemed to know what an RFID chip is.
However, I did reach an examiner in a Wake County Drivers License Office who said North Carolina does use RFID Technology and that she thought it had been in use since November of 2006. I spoke with another DMV employee in Raleigh who informed me that I would need to contact Marge Howell in the communications office. I have tried several times to reach Ms. Howell and only get voicemail. I will post an update after I speak with her.
In a blog posted March 01, 2007 by Jay Ovittore of Greensboro, he describes his run in with the DMV. "I went and got my new NC drivers license today at the local DMV. I had to get my address changed. Come to find out the new issue NCDL has a RFID chip in it. Not only can RFID technology be used to track a location of what it is in, but it can store information as well. It is easily hackable, if you can even call something so easy a hack, with a RFID scanner, which for a price is available to the general public. So I had some questions. I asked the DMV officer if they had any literature for what is going to be stored on the RFID chip, you know like my social security #. I was told, 'What is being stored on the RFID chip's is not going to be public information'. I raised a little hell and then left before I got myself arrested by the Gestapo like officials."
In the Charlotte City-Data forum one user posted their experience with the New North Carolina Driver's License.
"It was a sad day for me today as I called the local DMV. My cousin showed me her Renewed drivers licenses yesterday, and to my surprise there on the back was a new type of hologram. However as I came to find out today thru DMV sources it's not just a hologram it in fact is a new trackable chip. They said in fact it was a new homeland security project for this state. The officer also said that the cards which are trackable is just the first step in the new project, she also stated that other states had their own projects but that eventually all states would in fact be merged into the same system. This news shocked me to say the least but she also added that they were in fact doing facial recognitions as well to go into the database. However, before answering my questions she had a couple of her own such as, why do you want to know? Have you been involved with fake ID's etc. etc. I laughed and assured her that in fact I was just a concerned citizen, and that I found it ironic how we are not the terrorists but that we have to submit to being treated as such. She however didn't seem amused. What as a nation have we allowed? Well as for me my drivers licenses don't expire until 2010, and until I move to a state that doesn't have such a policy or the policy itself is rescinded I'll stick with the ones I have!"
Looking at these posts and getting the information from Representative Jim Guest makes me wonder if the people of North Carolina are being used as Guinea Pigs for the Department of Homeland Security and their implementation of the Real ID.
I wonder how many North Carolinians are aware that they are broadcasting their private information, without even knowing it. How many of them know that an electronic stalker could track their every move? They may not even know that their information will be placed into a database accessible not only by law enforcement and all other DMV's in the United States but by the governments of Mexico and Canada.
Homeland Security will be in charge of this massive data mine. However, they have yet to protect their own computers from being hacked more than 800 times in the past two years! Why would anyone in their right mind hand over all of their sensitive data to an arm of the government that cannot even manage its own systems?
One final note, I can understand the correlation between having a pair of car headlights on your driver's license (even if it is just a clever way to mask the RFID chip), but why the outline of North America? Is this new driver's license going to be the North American ID that will replace the passport to enter Mexico or Canada? Perhaps this system is in place to help forge the way for the North American Union, which the mainstream media outlets are trying hard to ignore away into that black hole, which swallows up important information in favor of reporting the drunken misdeeds of the latest celebrity. Either way, this form of identification that has been proven to be fallible should not be used. The people of North Carolina need to demand that this stop immediately. The people of the United States of America ought to stand with them.
Take Action before you have to renew your license Contact You Legislators at
NC Senators: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=Senate
NC House:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascripts/members/memberList.pl?sChamber=House
Your federal Legislators both House and Senate can be located at
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=nc
Support Representative Jim Guest and Learn more about the Real ID at:
http://www.legislatorsagainstrealid.com
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