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REAL ID berated by House members

I feel the same that all Americans are being forced into complience. This is a violaction of my rights as a citizen. Every thing they are planning to put on my ID is none of their business. You can read all about the new security system at XTec.com, this system will beable to tell them right were you are just by your Driver Licence smart chip and print out a picture of you, and all your personal info just by walking by one of the sub stations. They want to keep tabs on us, more then the terrorist.

"Freedom is not free" and bowing to the anti-constitutional legislation (contrary to the 4th and 10th amendments of the Constitution) of REAL ID will only enslave both state sovereignty and individual liberty--i.e. freedom to travel, presumption of innocence, full rights of citizenship--under a new Federal despotism. The coercive threats used to bring about conformity prove its tyrannical intent.

The federal government, per the 10th amendment, has no power delegated by the Constitution to dictate to the states what to require of their citizens, their DMVs, or local law enforcement in order to enjoy their liberty and freedoms as full citizens. The states are only "forced" if they bow to this coercive and unconstitutional power play. The state's duty is to "defend and uphold the Constitution", defending its citizen's and state's rights.

About 17 states are resisting, while Utah, like cowards, folds. Perhaps its citizens will move to nearby states, like Montana, where there freedoms and liberties are still being defended.

Any legislator or Governor that does not defend the Constitution, including the 10th and 4th amendments, is clearly and flagrantly violating their oath of office, and breaking the terms of their holding of office with the people thereby.

Such office holders should be more afraid of the people throwing them out of office than of some federal bureaucracy and anti-constitutional federal legislation which can easily be challenged through the courts.