Barr on Real ID
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

posted by Mike Kole @ 9:45 AM, ,

Barr Says No National ID

Yet another way Obama and McCain agree- instituting a National ID. Bob Barr opposes a National ID, and other expansion of government data collecting, unlike the Republican and Democrat.

Atlanta, GA -- “’September 11’ has become the catch-all excuse for virtually every proposed expansion of government power,” notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee for president. “One example is a national identification card and data base, long desired by some in government, and which was mandated by legislation passed by the Congress in 2005 with the support of both Senators McCain and Obama. Although I was no longer in the Congress when this bad legislation was passed, I had vigorously opposed it in the years since it became law, just as I led the successful effort to rescind a previous mandate for a national ID card.”

Unfortunately, he explains, “the Real ID Act establishes a new and privacy-invasive national ID card program. By forcing states to standardize their driver’s licenses and creating a vast national data base of private information on the citizenry, the law establishes through the back door something Americans would never have accepted directly—a National Identification Card.” In fact, “there was no open and honest vote on Real ID. The mandate was slipped into a supplemental appropriations bill, discouraging any real debate over the issue.”

Link to entire statement.

Labels: Barack Obama, Bob Barr, John McCain, National ID, Real ID