Opposition to national ID continues to grow
Chad Groening
OneNewsNow.com
May 23, 2007

A grassroots activist organization is calling on American citizens to contact their members of Congress to try to repeal the "REAL ID Act," a piece of legislation the group says is nothing more than a federal takeover of state departments of motor vehicles. Opposition to the legislation is brewing in several states.

The REAL ID Act of 2005, intended as a measure to deter terrorism, was signed into law in May 2005; implementation and enforcement, however, have been delayed until December 2009. Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center (APC), says the Act will essentially transform driver's licenses into a national identification card. But the cost to fully implement the Act's provisions, he claims, could be as high as $14.5 billion dollars, or almost $300 million per state.
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