Regarding the Feb. 9 letter, “Let’s get real about fighting this awful plan”:
The writer decries what he perceives to be a loss of our civil liberties and an infringement on our personal lives by a government proposal to take a more proactive stance in combating terrorism, thus keeping us a bit safer. He despises the proposal to require fingerprinting and/or retinal eye scans on driver’s licenses in the bill called Real ID Act. He further states that “without this Real ID card you will not be able to fly, enter federal buildings, collect Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid and many banks will require you to have it.”
Hello! Am I missing something here? It just appears to simple me that this is exactly what is needed to be done in order to more clearly protect ourselves. And, would I really care a whole bunch about illegals or terrorists not being able to fly or draw Social Security because they didn’t possess the Real ID card? As a matter of fact, this plan should have been implemented years ago.
The writer claims many states are “rising up” against this unjust proposal. Those states just happen to be the “loony left” up in the New England area. Hopefully, we will not follow suit.
Mike Milat
Oak Harbor
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