Stop the National Id

This Tuesday, the US Senate is scheduled to vote on the implementation of a national ID card system. The Real ID Act is nothing less than a Real National ID Act. The only thing left to the individual states is to decide which pretty picture they will choose to put on the card: everything else will be controlled by Washington DC bureaucrats. Read more, take action: http://www.unrealid.com/ My comment follows: In this world of digitization, our privacy has become harder and harder to maintain. As we move into a more computerized era, we must always keep ourselves safe from exploitation by corporations and even our own government. Often, the checks and balances exist simply by making it difficult to commit wrongdoing. The use of Social Security numbers as ID has largely contributed to the growing ease of identity theft. Now, we're voluntarily making it easier? Why? A national ID will make it easier for corporations, government, and individuals to hurt others. Whether this is through agressive, invasive marketing, or simply the fact that a national ID will make identity theft so much easier, it is detrimental to U.S. citizens. At least *read* this law that will reduce our freedoms, unlike the misnamed PATRIOT ACT. We don't want Michael Moore to have to make another movie where he reads a law to Congress, do we?