- On
Tuesday, May 10, 2005, America became a true police state. Your
U.S. senators voted -- unanimously, with no discussion, and
without even reading the bill -- to create a national ID card.
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- The Real ID Act blackmails
state governments into turning their drivers licenses into a
draconian tool of the
federal
homeland security apparatus. If states refuse, their citizens
lose such "privileges" as being allowed to board an airplane,
enter a federal building, or apply for social security.
President Bush is expected to sign the bill eagerly on Thursday.
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- In three years -- by May 2008
-- this Stalin-style internal passport will be an American
reality. But your government will have _more_ control over you
than Stalin ever dreamed in his most violent, vicious,
anti-freedom dreams. (See links to the text of the law and
articles about it at the bottom of this article.)
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- But that's only the beginning.
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- The creator of the Real ID Act,
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, smiles and tells us that his Real ID
Act is all about "solving illegal immigration" or "preventing
terrorists from entering the country." This is one of the
biggest of the thousands of "Big Lies" we've heard from the
tyrants in Washington. The Real ID Act is about tracking and
controlling Americans. You. Me. Our children. Everybody.
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- In May 2008, barring a miracle,
America as we once knew it will be in ruins. It will be gone.
And the rights of gun owners will be among the first scheduled
for destruction.
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- GUN OWNERS: PREPARE TO
RESIST
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- Here's your future:
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- * You walk into a gun store,
fill out your 4473, and show your government ID just as you now
do. But instead of looking at your license and taking down some
information, the clerk runs the license (which is likely to
contain a radio-frequency ID chip) through a scanner. Your
purchase is instantly recorded in your state drivers license
registry. The federal government isn't currently allowed to keep
a gun registry. But no problem; the Real ID act gives them an
open door into your state records.
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- * Complete information on every
firearm you buy will be instantly available to every police
officer (and possibly every government employee, store clerk, or
computer hacker) you ever encounter. You'll be an instant
criminal suspect every time you deal with someone who has access
to the database.
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- * Just as travelers are
encouraged to get background checks and give fingerprints to
avoid some of the worst excesses of TSA screening, gun owners
will be encouraged to get background checks and give whatever
biometric ID the Department of Homeland Security requires. This
will be sold as a "benefit," ensuring you'll never again
experience an "instant-check" delay. In fact, Congress, the ATF,
or the FBI might even "mandate" 5-day or 15-day delays for
anyone not enrolled in the "Trusted Firearms Buyer" program.
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- * The private purchase
"loophole" will be closed, so that all gun buyers must make
trackable purchases. (The ultimate goal is for _every_ purchase
of every kind to be trackable.)
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- * Buying ammo? The store scans
your national ID card and -- bingo! -- your purchase is
registered in the state database.
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- * The federal government or
state governments can now also effectively legislate limits on
the amount or kind of ammunition you're "allowed" to purchase.
Try to buy more and the database instantly rejects you.
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- * The federal government or
state governments can now also effectively legislate limits on
the number of guns you may own. Try to buy more, and the
database rejects you.
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- * Eventually -- after the
federal government "discovers" the obvious, that national ID
won't stop either illegal immigration or terrorism -- the old
attack on "evil guns" will resume. When they want your .50 BMG .
they'll know just where to find it (because the Real ID act says
your home address must be revealed). When they want your evil
"scoped sniper rifle" (you know, the one you hunt deer with),
they'll know just how to get it. Ditto with you "Saturday Night
Special" or your "assault weapon."
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- * If you don't surrender your
guns, well, then the Department of Homeland Security will cut
off your driving "privilege," as well as your right to escape
the growing police state via plane. You'll be a prisoner in your
own home, in your own country. Or you'll be forced to function
as an outlaw, operating and living a precarious existence
beneath the government radar.
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- PARANOID? OR PAYING
ATTENTION?
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- You say these projections are
ridiculous? That we're paranoid?
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- Well, frankly, if the Real ID
Act doesn't make you paranoid, you're not paying enough
attention. We ask you to consider the long-term impact of a few
other acts of government.
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- In the 1930s, Congress promised
us that our social security numbers would never, absolutely
never, be used for identification. Now, they're the key to
everything about us -- and without a social security number you
won't get a drivers license and you won't even be "allowed" to
drive after May 2008.
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- In 1913, Congress and the media
swore to us that the brand- new income tax would only affect the
rich. Well, how rich do you feel after paying 40 percent of your
income (or more!) in taxes?
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- This is the way government
works. They've even got a term for it: mission creep. And there
is no creepier mission than the mission the federal government
has currently set itself: to track everyone, everywhere, and to
control what we do.
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- We warned you in The State vs.
the People (http://www.jpfo.org/tsvtp.htm)
that this was coming. That book is still relevant, still a good
read, and still filled with information about what our future
will be like in this new American police state.
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- Be forewarned. Be aware.
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- REAL ID: IT'S
THE LAW AND IT'S CRIMINAL
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- Please take a moment to go to
this site:
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- Click on the link that leads to
the song "Justice Day."
- Listen to the music or read the
lyrics.
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- Here's the opening of the song:
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- You're the boot.
- Stomping on the human face
forever.
- You're the eye.
- Staring down on everyone and
ever seeing all.
- You're the lie.
- Twisting all our minds into
your whoredom.
- You are Death.
- You are war.
- You are slavery.
- You're the law.
- You're the law.
- You're the LAW!
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- George Orwell was the first to
describe totalitarianism as a "boot stomping on the human face
forever." But in Orwell's day Americans would have had a hard
time believing that the law -- the good old, all-American
legislature -- all those smiling senators and "representatives"
would be the ones to plant their iron heels in our faces. Back
in those innocent days, we imagined tyranny would come from
outside.
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- Well, tyranny is here. And it's
a gift from the very people we so trustingly put into office.
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- Tyranny is THE LAW.
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- Is this a way to run a country?
Tacking something as onerous as national ID onto a must-pass
bill and making it law without any debate? What does this say
about people the gun owners consider their friends? In the
House, where the bill containing the Real ID Act passed 368-58,
only three Republicans voted against it. Here's the final
roll-call vote so you can see how your own congressperson voted:
http://tinyurl.com/cr3bj)
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- In the Senate, not one person
cared enough about freedom to vote against it -- or even to
demand that senators discuss it.
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- (The Real ID Act originally
passed the House in February as a standalone bill (H.R. 418) by
a vote of 261-to-161. House leaders, realizing national ID would
have been in trouble in the Senate, then added it to a must-pass
military appropriations bill in a cynical ploy to make it almost
impossible to fight national ID.)
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- Turning America into a
full-fledged police state was just business as usual to your
representatives. And, just as Adolf Hitler scrupulously followed
German law while committing his horrors, so your
"representatives" and the bureaucrats you face at the
national-ID drivers license bureau will also be following the
law -- the Real ID law that allows them to enslave you.
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- WHAT NEXT?
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- We have two choices now: Resist
or submit.
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- More than 600 organizations,
from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National
Governors Association, opposed the bill. Even the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (which loves
national ID and was largely responsible for an earlier attempt
at such legislation nine years ago) criticized it.
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- We can expect lawsuits against
national ID, including at least one suit led by state
governments.
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- However, nearly all the
opposition from state governments focuses on one area: They're
upset because the federal government didn't offer them extra
money to enslave us. If Congress bribes them with enough
millions and billions, they'll gladly sell our freedom.
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- Only one state, Montana, has so
far absolutely refused to cooperate with national ID. The
Montana legislature passed a law saying they would not go along.
However, that will mean that Montana residents are barred from
flying without extreme extra scrutiny or from applying for
federal benefits because their licenses will be "non-compliant."
Although we applaud the courageous Montana legislators, no doubt
we'll soon hear many Montanans demanding the "privilege" of
having a real national ID card.
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- Ultimately, real resistance is
up to us, as individuals. There are certain courses of action
JPFO cannot recommend. But every freedom lover should be pleased
if all the people who had a hand in creating Real ID act lost
their jobs -- soon. And those individuals who truly value their
(and their children's) futures should seriously consider making
national ID their line in the sand.
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- We have already heard from many
people saying they will drive without a license rather than
submit to a license that has become a Stalinist control
document. We just hope their resolve stays equally strong when
they face a world in which it's impossible to buy, sell, retire,
travel -- or buy a gun -- without national ID.
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- We ask you to remember men like
Alexandr Solzhenitzyn
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- Both stood up and boldly
opposed a tyrannical regime in the Soviet Union. Both risked
their lives. Both suffered horribly for their resistance and
their protests. But eventually, they triumphed -- and the Soviet
Union crumbled.
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- We are in need of such people,
and such courage, today. We cannot wait for "someone else" to
stand up and show that kind of integrity.
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- We must become the kind of
people we admire if we are ever again to live in a nation we can
trust.
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- G-d help us if we fail.*
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- - The Liberty Crew
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- ABOUT THE
REAL ID ACT
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- Text of the law:
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- "No Real Debate for Real ID"
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- "Last Chance to Stop National
ID"
- Senate passage)
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- * We spell G-d this way because
in Judaism it is considered
- a sign of respect. We spell out
the name of the Creator
- only in sacred settings.
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- Original Material in JPFO
ALERTS is Copyright 2005 JPFO, Inc.
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reproduce this alert in full, so long
- as the following JPFO contact
information is included:
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- Jews for the Preservation of
Firearms Ownership
- PO Box 270143
- Hartford, Wisconsin 53027
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- Phone: 1-262-673-9745
- Order line: 1-800-869-1884
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