"There is a nationwide revolt against the REAL ID Act, but you wouldn't know it from watching the national news. Political journalists are often too obsessed with parties and personalities and the "sport" of electoral politics to cover real issues of real concern to real Americans."
So says DownsizeDC, and I couldn't agree more. They're not just complaining, though: they're starting up an email campaign with a page that lets you send a message to Neil Cavuto on FoxNews, Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, and Wolf Blitzter on CNN. Good thinking! I just tried it out (I'll include my letter in a response) and it seems to work just fine.
On Homeland Stupidity, Michael Hampton quotes Jim Babka of Downsize DC on why this is so important:
Congress may not always care what citizens think, until they’re forced to, but Congress always cares what the media thinks.... We need to get the media to cover the nationwide revolt against the REAL ID Act.
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Here's the letter I sent:
The "Real ID" Act of 2005 turns our state driver’s licenses into a national identity card, costs over $20 billion dollars, infringes privacy, and imposes major burdens on taxpayers, anybody renewing a driver's license, seniors, immigrants, transgender people, and state governments – while doing nothing to protect against terrorism.
Five states have already opted out of Real ID; bills are pending in over 20 more. The tone of comments in the recent DHS town hall meeting/webcast was extremely critical. Where's the coverage?
This is especially important because the DHS' open commenting period ending May 8 (see http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid/ for more) is a great chance for citizens on *both* sides of the issue to participate in the democratic process and make their voice heard. I was talking to somebody from DHS yesterday and he said they're surprised at how low the participation has been so far; we agreed that the lack of media coverage had a lot to do with this.
There are many great stories here ... please cover them.
Thank you,
jon
With all this discussion on what RealID is bad - will somebody, even the alleged "security experts", please make a better proposal? How should the government prevent fake IDs? How should the government prevent people from having multiple IDs from multiple states? Our government needs people to make proposals on how to improve this - not just say it's bad with no alternatives.
First of all, the government's about to spend $20B on something that *won't help* with terrorism, infringes our rights, and is likely to increase identity theft. So right now, the better proposal is "let's not do that".
In terms of moving forward, one extremely important principle from a security perspective is to specify and design the system (or system-of-systems) in detail before charging off and starting to build it.
If you read the Real ID regulations, there are all kinds of references to things that aren't defined yet. This isn't completely DHS' fault (because of the way Congress wrote the law (especially the artificially-short time frames), and the tricky interaction between the federal government and states rights, they were somewhat limited here) but it's still a huge problem.
Another really important principle is to focus the system on the specific goals. For example, if the goal is to eliminate the chance for people to get multiple driver's licenses across states, then as somebody in the townhall meeting pointed out, the Commercial Driver's License program has shown that this can already be accomplished. Another major problem with Real ID is that it's trying to do waaaaay too much, without really thinking through the interactions.
There are a lot of other complexities for national ID cards The National Academies' report IDs: Not that easy has some great discussions of this and is well worth reading.
jon
In terms of the media approach... who are the voices who can write OpEd pieces abourt Real ID that people will listen to? Identifying and approaching them might be useful, though you'd think they are all likely already engaged in the issue. Still, worth a thought...
That's happening ... although perhaps not in as organized a way as it should be. Good point.
jon
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