Real ID or Real Nightmare?? RFID Chips? 1984 Deja VU

While visions of sugar plums might be dancing through people's heads, there's a mad dash at the Arizona State Legislature to pass through the current snow-job of fear-and-anger a clever provision crafted by Senator Bob Worsley, R-Mesa,  into this year’s legislation
to enact the Real ID Act - specifically barring the use of RFID technology in a half-measure step to total surveillance and/or supposedly giving Arizona drivers "a choice" for what kind of driver's license they want after April 1, 2016 . . . good choice of a date for that: April Fool's Day!

State legislators approved a measure in 2008 prohibiting the MVD from producing a Real ID-compliant license, largely under the influence of then Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano, who resigned from that office [leaving it to the nationally-embarrassing Republican Jan Brewer], to become "Big Sis" heading up the Department of Homeland Security until she resigned from that job too.
Napolitano rightfully called it "an unfunded mandate" at that time
http://www.azcentral.com/story/dougmaceachern/2015/04/03/napolitano-mandate-license-legislature/25269805/
Curiously, both sides of the political spectrum - The John Birch Society and the American Civil Liberties Union - were united in their concerns, proving the point that you can't fool all the people all of time.

AT A GLANCE . . .

The Real ID Act of 2005 would turn our state driver’s licenses into a genuine national identity card and impose numerous new burdens on taxpayers, citizens, immigrants, and state governments – while doing nothing to protect against terrorism. As a result, it is stirring intense opposition from many groups across the political spectrum. This Web site provides information about opposing Real ID.

Read more: http://www.realnightmare.org/