Redworm said:
How exactly does it threaten our freedoms?
Care to name under which power (Art. I Sect. 8) the Congress has authority to mandate a national I.D.?
Granted, we already have a de facto I.D. in our State issued DL's and such, but it's not required to possess in order to get a job. To board a plane. In short, to prove you are who you say you are... And it's a State issue, not a Federal issue.
The Federal Government, in my opinion, has no grant of power or authority to legislate national compliance with mandated I.D.'s.
As to how it may endanger you, personally... Are you really comfortable with a Federally "secured" database of all your data? Can you say, identity theft? Yeah, kinda thought you could.
Do you agree that you have the right to seek gainful employment (yes, you do, but you are not guaranteed a job)? Under the Real ID Act of 2005, you can not hold a job without this national I.D. Under the proposed immigration act, even should you posses the I.D., the EEVS can deny you (another Federally "secured" database). Further, under this immigration act, you have no recourse to correct any problems stemming from a false positive "hit" in the database. The Courts are forbidden to adjudicate any problems with the EEVS. There is no civil procedure you can take to rectify the problem. That's called lack of Procedural Due Process... but again, the courts can't touch it.
Without Real I.D., you cannot fly. You can be denied access to any Federal building or Courthouse. There has already been talk of expanding Real I.D. to bus and train terminals. Are you sure you can cross a State line in your private vehicle? OK, that may be a reach... Maybe. They can certainly mandate it for interstate truckers via DOT regulations.
How long after the implementation of the Act will it take for the BATF&E to post a regulation prohibiting firearms transfers to anyone not having a Real I.D.?
And these are just off the top of my head.