REAL ID

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REAL ID

• Background of National IDs and the REAL ID
• Development of the REAL ID/National ID
• Integrated View
• REAL ID Specifics and Specifications
• REAL ID Costs
• Social/Religious Concerns
• References/Take-Aways

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REAL IDBackground of National IDs and the REAL ID

• 1981 - William French, US Attorney General under
  Reagan stated that the Reagan Administration was
  explicitly opposed to the creation of a national
  identity card
• 1993,- the Clinton administration advocated a
  Health Security Card. The conservative
  Congress rejected it.
• 2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary
  Tom Ridge reiterated, the legislation that
  created the Department of Homeland Security was
  very specific on the question of a national ID
  card. They said there will be no national ID
  card.
• 2005 - attached to a bill for tsunami relief and
  military appropriations, the REAL ID
  legislation passed with very little review
• 2008 - In an opinion column written by Secretary
  Chertoff after the publication of the final rule,
  he said, embracing REAL ID would mean it would
  be used to cash a check, hire a baby sitter,
  board a place or engage in countless other
  activities. This is a description of a national
  identification system.
• Registering and tracking their own law-abiding
  citizens has been a hallmark of totalitarian
  governments in the 20th century

The Bill of Rights Amendment IX The enumeration
in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not
be construed to deny or disparage others retained
by the people. Amendment X The powers not
delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,
are reserved to the states respectively, or to
the people.
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REAL IDDevelopment of the REAL ID/National ID

• 1986 Immigration Reform creates the I-9
  Employment Eligibility Verification form along
  with amnesty for illegals
• 1994 Motor Votor includes funding for an
  optional program for states to develop a National
  Drivers Registry under NHTSB, and funding for
  states that collect and forward SSNs.
• 1995,- Welfare Reform/Deadbeat Dads includes
  funding for a database system for Employment
  Eligibility Verification (DOL) and requirements
  on states
• 1995 GATT requires all member nations of the
  WTO to uniquely identify all residents
• 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act requires
  telecommunications companies to provide
  standardized hookups to their routers and hubs
  for law enforcement
• 1996 Immigration Reform Act requires social
  security numbers to be collected for drivers
  license issuance
• 1996 HIPAA requires medical insurers to
  provide claim transaction info to US Dept. Health
  using SSN as unique identifier
• 1997 Telecommunications Reform Act requires
  two-way communications devices to be included
  with all new cell phones and cars made or sold in
  the United States on or after October 1, 2001.
• 2001- Section 326 of the Patriot Act Know your
  Customer banking regulations
• 2001 No Child Left Behind funds the DOD DB to
  track grade and high school students
• 2001- Aviation and Transportation Security Act
  CAPPS and CAPPS II
• 2005 REAL ID legislation passed
• 2006 President Bush announces 200 million for
  Dept Ed to track college students
• 2008 FISA Amendments

HIPPA DOH
SSN/DL DOT
CAPPS TSA
SSN/EEV DOL
SSN/Ed DOD
SSN/ Telecom
SSN/Ed DOEd
SSN/ Banking FINCEN
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REAL IDIntegrated View
SSN/ Banking FINCEN
HIPPA DOH
SSN/Ed DOD
SSN/Ed DOEd
CAPPS TSA
SSN/ Telecom
SSA/EAB SSNs
IRS SSN
SSN/DL DOT
SSN/EEV DOL
REAL ID DB DHS
Federal Level
EVVE
SSOLV
E-Verify
State Level
Dept Health
Birth and Death Records
MVD
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REAL IDSpecifics and Specifications

• Incorporates
• Biometrics
• Absolute place of residence verification
• SSN validation through SSOLV
• Interfaces (among others)
• E-Verify (Employment Eligibility Verification
  system, DHS/ DOL)
• REAL ID Database (DHS)
• SSOLV (Social Security Online Verification
  system, SSA)
• EVVE (Electronic Vital records Verification
  Exchange, NAPHSIS)
• EAB (Enumeration at Birth, SSA)
• National Drivers Registry (NTHSB)
• CAPPS Federal Computer Assisted Passenger
  Prescreening System (incl. No Fly List)
• Telecom router wiretapping
• Implementation
• May 11, 2008
• Two Extensions permitted
• All people recertified by 2010/new drivers
  licenses issued, paid for by citizens

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REAL IDCosts

• State Costs of REAL ID Federal Legislation
  Compliance
• Estimates range from 9 Billion to 40 Billion
• Does not include state level legislation or
  initiative secure ID costs
• Federal Costs
• The claim is that we already have the
  information
• However, there are costs for REAL ID DB
  development, implementation, maintenance,
  enhancement and use costs.
• One Time Costs in the billions
• Ongoing Yearly Maintenance, Enhancement and Use
  in the billions
• Does not include the costs of the interfacing
  database systems, such as the Dept Ed system (200
  million)
• NCLB tracking database at the DOD
• EAB (Enumeration at Birth, SSA)
• Regulatory compliance costs borne by telecoms
  passed to individuals
• et al.
• Overall costs to the American Economy
• 10 to 50 billion per YEAR of ZERO productive
  economic value
• The 1 spending program outside of military
  expenditures
• Larger than the Pharmaceutical Medical Benefit
  Program

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REAL IDSocial/Religious Concerns

• Civil Liberties
• Massive expansion of government power
• Unprecedented ability to look into the private
  lives of law abiding citizens
• Constitutional
• There is no authorization for the federal
  government to surveil law abiding citizens in the
  constitution. There is no authorization for the
  federal government to tax citizens to this end in
  the constitution.
• REAL IDs BATF 4473 forms gun purchase
  registration
• Defense
• Promotes a false sense of homeland security
• Data and plastic cards stop zero people illegally
  crossing the border
• Increases the payoff for identification crime
• Religious
• Mark of the Beast
• that the number shall be a mark on the forehead
  and hand of each bearer
• that someone without the number cannot buy or
  sell
• The Social Security Administrations Enumeration
  at Birth Program

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REAL IDReferences / Take-Aways

• http//epic.org/privacy/id-cards/epic_realid_0508.
  pdf
• http//www.aamva.org
• http//www.naphsis.org
• http//www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_1101
  04.html
• http//www.government-id-summit.com/conference.age
  nda.asp
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FISA_Amendments_Act_o
  f_2008
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Assisted_Pas
  senger_Prescreening_System
• Google Searches (use marks as demonstrated
  below)
• enumeration at birth
• homeland security REAL ID
• homeland security vital records
• The REAL ID/national ID is NOT a plastic
  card in your pocket!
• The REAL ID/national ID is a DATA FILE or data
  files of all aspects of your life on record with
  the federal and state government, that is
  searchable now practically by anyone without
  warrant.
• REAL IDs 4473s GUN PURCHASE REGISTRATION
• The RFID Chip issue is a non-issue relative to
  national ids. All the chip does is present the
  data in another format (broadcast).

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SSA Procedure For Objecting to "Enumeration at
Birth" Orwellian Government Program Targets
Newborns
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--SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER POLICY AND GENERAL
PROCEDURESParent objects to "Enumeration at
Birth" program-----------------------------------
----------------- Recently many new parents have
found that Social Security numbers have been
assigned to their newborn children over their
objection and against their will. It has been
discovered that the Social Security
Administration has implemented a program referred
to as "Enumeration at Birth" and has in place a
specific procedure for parental objections. Note
that this is a multi-step procedure and that at
each step the bureacracy will attempt to talk the
parent into keeping the assigned SSN. However, if
the parent is persistent, the procedure exists
for expunging the record. The following was
obtained in 1992 from the SSA policy manual.
(Images of the manual pages may be found at the
bottom of this page.)
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• THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER POLICY AND GENERAL
  PROCEDURES
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• TN 16 6-90 RM 00905.100B.
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• 00205.100 PARENT OBJECTS TO ASSIGNMENT OF SSN TO
  CHILD UNDER THE ENUMERATION AT BIRTH PROGRAM
• POLICY SSA does not change, void or cancel SSNs.
• In special situations, SSA will delete the
  applicant information from the SSN record.
• --------------------------------------------------
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• B. PROCEDURE
• A parent may object when a child is assigned an
  SSN. If a child is issued an SSN card via the
  Enumeration at Birth program (the online NUMIDENT
  shows "FMC6" for Enumeration at Birth items) and
  the mother states she answered "no" to the
  enumeration question when providing birth
  information for the newborn, assume that the
  State inadvertantly keyed "yes", and follow these
  steps
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  ------------------------ STEP ACTION
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• 1 Explain that the child will need an SSN, by at
  least age 2, if he/she will be listed as a
  dependent on an income tax return. If the
  parent accepts this explanation and will keep the
  SSN card, stop. If this is not acceptable, go
  to step 2.
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• 2 Explain that on SSA's records, the account will
  remain dormant, unless earnings are posted on the
  record. If the parent accepts this explanation
  and will keep the card, stop. If the parent
  accepts the explanation but does want the SSN
  card, take the card and destroy the card (RM
  00201.060). Explain that when an application is
  later made for an SSN card the same number will
  be assigned. If the parent inists that we
  delete the SSN record, explain that the deletion
  action may take several months. (Go to step 3.)
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• 3 Document the parent's objection and advise
  the parent that the case must be sent to central
  office (CO) for review. Explain to the parent
  that if we delete the applicant information from
  the SSN record, a subsequent SSN request (likely
  before the child is age 2) will result in a
  different SSN. In addition, if and when the
  parent files for an SSN for the child in the
  future, he/she should enter "no" in item 10 on
  the SS-5. Forward all material pertinent to the
  situation (including the FO observation and
  recommendation) to CO at
• Social Security Administration
• ORSI, DE, ER
• 3-E-26 Operations Building

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I offer the following, with links, regarding the
federal law that requires SSNs at birth. It was
passed as part of the GATT/WTO treaty in 1994.
Dr. Paul voted against it. Buried in a section of
the bill implementing the General Agreement on
Tariff and Trade (GATT)/WTO was a requirement
that Social Security numbers be issued at
birth. Section 742 of H.R. 5110 requires that for
the purposes of the Earned Income Tax Credit,
SSN's must be issued at birth. Previously,
parents could wait up to one year before
filing. The following is a link to the bill,
brought forth in September of 1994 http//bulk.re
source.org/gpo.gov/bills/103/h5110ih.txt.pdf Pleas
e see Section 742. This legislation (H.R. 5110)
implemented the Uruguay Round of the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a global
trade compact that established the World Trade
Organization (WTO) bureaucracy. The House
approved this legislation during a lame-duck
session on November 29, 1994 (Roll Call 507) by a
vote of 288 to 146. Dr. Paul offered a separate
resolution at that time (House Joint Resolution
90) that proposed a complete withdrawal of the
U.S. from the WTO. That resolution failed. The
Senate passed the bill to implement the Uruguay
Round of GATT on December 1, 1994 (Roll Call 329)
by a vote of 76 to 24. See http//findarticles.co
m/p/articles/mi_m0JZS/is_9_20/ai_n25089209