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Dear CASPIAN members and newsletter subscribers:

"Your ID, please" is a phrase Americans will be hearing far more often
if the Real ID Act is implemented. But with your help today, we can
prevent this 'Real Nightmare' from becoming a reality.

The Real ID Act requires every American to have a standardized driver's
license – a de facto national ID – to fly on commercial airlines or
enter government buildings. Legislation has also been proposed that
would make showing a Real ID a requirement for voting, getting a job and
obtaining benefits like Medicaid. Real ID will invade privacy, trample
religious freedom, and won’t make us any safer.

We need your help by Tuesday, 5:00 PM EST to tell DHS and Congress that
Americans reject Real ID.

As required by law, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is
accepting comments on its proposed Real ID regulations through Tuesday,
May 8th, at 5:00 PM. Anyone in America has the right to submit comments
to the government on this proposal.

Please submit your own comments telling DHS and Congress that Real ID is
a 'Real Nightmare' that needs to be fixed.

Your comments today will be critical in this debate, as Congress will be
looking carefully at the number of comments delivered. Here is how you
can submit your comments:


1. Online through the Federal Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov (search for "DHS-2006-0030-0001" and
follow the instructions for submitting comments)
2. Fax to 1-866-466-5370. Your fax must state that you are
submitting comments in response to Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
DHS-2006-0030.
3. Postal Mail sent to Department of Homeland Security; Attn: NAC
1-12037; Washington, D.C. 20538. Your letter must state that you
are submitting comments in response to Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking DHS-2006-0030.

For more information about comment submission, visit
http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid/
For more information about Real ID, go to www.realnightmare.org
For the ACLU's page on religious opposition to Real ID, go to
http://www.realnightmare.org/opposition/101/
For CASPIAN's New Hampshire Anti-REAL ID page, go to
http://www.granitestateid.com
For a video of the NH rally opposing REAL ID (including excerpts from my
speech) see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeE3iB90KeE

Writing your Comments: We've posted a number of talking points below to
help you craft your letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
You can raise one or all of these issues, but please use your own
language. If you can't write a carefully crafted letter, don't worry.
Even a short comment - "I don't want REAL ID!" will be counted and add
you to the ranks of the opposition. Doing something, however small, is
better than doing nothing.

Please take a minute and file a comment for your future and your
liberty.

In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.

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Dr. Katherine Albrecht
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy
(877) 287-5854, kma@spychips.com

Host of "Uncovering the Truth" Radio Show
We the People Radio Network, M-F 10AM-12PM EST
http://www.wtprn.com

Co-author of "SPYCHIPS: How Major Corporations and Government
Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID"

http://www.spychips.com // http://www.nocards.org
Bio online at: http://www.spychips.com/media/katherine-albrecht.html
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Talking Points on REAL ID

President Bush signed the REAL ID Act into law last year, turning your
state driver's license into a de facto national ID card. You will have
to show it to enter a federal building, open a bank account, or board a
p***. Here are just a few of the reasons why REAL ID is a terrible
idea.


The REAL ID means long lines and more money from you

REAL ID creates a NATIONWIDE database that will make your
personal information (photo, birth date, SSN, home address,
driving record, biometric data, etc.) available to the federal
government -- and every other state. This database will be a
gold mine for identity thieves and junk marketers. (Especially
relevant since California DMV workers have been arrested for
making bogus ID's out of real drivers' information — and giving
them to criminals.)

The REAL ID will create a bureaucratic nightmare

REAL ID means the entire bureaucratic hassle of establishing
your identity — to the satisfaction of the federal government —
is shifted to your local DMV. Just to renew your license, you'll
have to scrounge up a long list of identity documents. Then,
after wasting hours and money getting the paperwork, you can
expect to wait in long lines just to update your driver's
license. You can expect increased fees to pay for all that extra
work, too.

REAL ID will cost a fortune

REAL ID is an unfunded mandate. It won't be cheap to create a
huge government bureaucracy to collect, verify, and share
massive amounts of personal data. Experts estimate that REAL ID
compliance will cost Pennsylvania $85 million, Washington state
over $45 million annually for several years, and Virginia could
pay up to $169 million, plus $63 million a year after that. The
burden of paying for all of this will fall on citizens and
drivers through higher taxes and fees.

REAL ID will destroy your hard-won privacy protections

Presently, our drivers license information is held in our states
of residence, where many states lawmakers have implemented
measures to ensure that data will not be sold to marketers or
fall prey to abuse. The federal government wants to take these
protections away from us, forcing us to share our photos and
home addresses with everyone else in the system. This is
particularly troubling considering that several states have sold
drivers license photos to marketers in the past.

REAL ID will violate many people's religious beliefs

Religious organizations and members of various religions from
Native Americans to Amish to mainstream Christians oppose Real
ID due to its potential impact on their religious freedom. Many
have objected to Real ID because they believe it represents
significant step toward the modern day incarnation of the "Mark
of the Beast," prophesied in the Book of Revelation: "And he
causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or
the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Revelation
13:16). The Real ID Act is a direct attack on the beliefs of
these Americans.
For more on religious opposition, see the ACLU's website here:
http://www.realnightmare.org/opposition/101/

National ID is the mark of a Police State

America has always been a free country. This is not a
totalitarian regime where authorities can demand "Your papers,
please!" of citizens. The United States is one of the last
strongholds of freedom in the world. Let's put a stop to the
encroaching police state. If we don't stand up for our rights,
who will?


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CASPIAN: Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering
Opposing supermarket loyalty cards and other retail surveillance
schemes since 1999

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