6 Comments for Where do the candidates stand on the real id act and rfid technology?

• 1. DAR  |  February 15th, 2011 at 8:23 am

  Ron Paul is against it.

  Very, very against it.

  But then, he takes the Constitution seriously.

• 2. Fujoshi  |  February 15th, 2011 at 8:43 am

  Well, I know that Illinois is one of the 17 states that refuse to do it… So my father had to get his passport and I had to FIND mine because after the deadline you can’t fly without “Official” ID.

  I am TOTALLY ANTI RFID TECHNOLOGY!

  It may help stop shoplifting… But I DO NOT want EVERYTHING I wear to be trackable… EVERYTHING I OWN to be used in place of a ‘focus group”.

  If RFID tech becomes ‘OK’ they can place scanners in doorways… Long the street… At the entery way of buildings…

  If ‘they’ know that your wearing a Nike Hat, a Columbia Coat, a Hanes T-Shirt, and a BrandX Leather wallet then the scanners can be used to TRACK YOUR MOVEMENTS.

  If a store has the scanners in the doors then they will know EVERYTHING you have on you…

  RFID TECH CANNOT BE TURNED OFF!

  If they manufacturer your shoes with them in the soles then they are in there and readable for the life of the product!

  They can even be used to track the movement of TRASH!

  If RFID Tech is allowed, it will be THE END of the last remaining shreads of privacy.

  It SOUNDS so paranoid… But it is all true…

  It SOUNDS like I’m one of those nut-job conspericy theories but this one time, it IS as bad as it sounds…

• 3. Heavenly~Evangelical4OBAMA  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:37 am

  Good question….stuff that requires research.

  No senator voted against a 2005 emergency spending bill that created federalized ID cards. But two years later, skepticism on Capitol Hill about the wildly controversial Real ID rules has surfaced.

  Real ID language was planted deep in sec 302 of the 2007 immigration bill and despite the benefits of the bill, it was soundly beat back because of the Real ID requirement.

• 4. Captain Awesome!  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:50 am

  Actually, it got kicked back like 6 months or something like that.

  But regardless of the exact date, I don’t think it’ll work out too well, since 14+ state legislatures have passed laws AGAINST the Real ID Act. Many more are in the process of passing laws against the Real ID legislation. And honestly, if the states don’t want it, then it won’t happen.

  If it gets enacted anyway, then the residents of all those states won’t be able to fly, take the train, enter a federal building, or anything else federally-based that requires you to show ID (driver’s licenses are state controlled, so I presume people will still be able to drive.)

  And, of course, the federal government is leaving it up to the states to enact and pay for.

  Most all of the candidates should be against this, if they haven’t already declared they’re against it. I seem to remember hearing a while back that all of the Democratic candidates were against it; as far as McCain, I’m not really sure.

• 5. stenobrachius  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:50 am

  The candidates vary, but this guy belives the govenment is already tagging people:
  http://home.comcast.net/~virtualcastlebeasley/site/?/home/

• 6. Shia  |  February 15th, 2011 at 10:10 am

  i think that even though many democrats voted against it in the House it still passed unchallenged because it was piggybacked on a spending bill. Senators Clinton and Obama both agree that H.R 418 needs some serious revising but Senator McCain endorses the bill wholeheartedly. Maine was the first state to pass legislation against the bill and honestly I think that is a good Idea. Most of the states that passed legislation against the Act are democratic states. This bill will cost billions of taxpayers dollars and I’m so against it. But hey just remember “Big Brother is watching”. Lol

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