VA Liberty Defense will lead the fight in Virginia prohibiting the compliance of the unfunded, federally mandated "Real ID Act of 2005", renamed "Dangerous ID". The Department of Homeland Security has estimated the cost to the states to be $23.1 billion to implement this act. States will be forced to spend billions more to implement a driver’s license mandate that threatens unacceptable privacy and civil rights violations.

Twenty-one (21) states are engaged in an all-out revolt against the Dangerous ID and have enacted Anti-Dangerous ID bills or resolutions binding legislation and prohibiting participation in the Dangerous ID program and will never issue Dangerous ID licenses.

The "REAL ID Act of 2005" is a bad law passed under false pretenses. It was rejected three separate times by the U.S. Senate, and was only passed because it was buried in a larger bill containing disaster relief and funding for Iraq. The Senate didn't want it, and the American people don't want it either. But the majority leadership in Congress imposed it on us, and so now we have to fight to get it stop implementation in Virginia.

The Dangerous ID Act creates a centralized federal database of personal information about all Americans. Decisions about the exact nature and scope of this program will be made by unelected bureaucrats in the Executive Branch. It seems inevitable that biometric information and electronic tracking tags will be included at some point. No one intends a bad use for this system today, but it is inevitable that it will be used in bad ways in the future.

There are valid concerns with regard to security of the citizen’s personal information due to the number of databases that would be storing personal information by the federal government and shared between the states across the country as required by the Dangerous ID Act. The Federal Government doesn't even know who is getting into those data bases and for what purpose.

Case in point: At least four State Department workers pried into the supposedly secure passport files of presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain. Those intent on obtaining sensitive personal information for their own criminal personal gain will have no problem breeching those databases. Databases are breeched by criminals frequently having a devastating impact on the security of the personal information of all citizens.

There have been recent reports of the cloning of passports using the same RFID chip technology proposed for use in driver's licenses as part of the compliance with the "Real ID Act of 2005". This technology poses a real threat of identity theft.

According to the DHS, "Real ID is a nationwide effort intended to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of identification documents that State governments issue." Yet it does nothing to prevent terrorists and other criminals from fraudulently obtaining a "Real ID" by forging the required documents. In fact, with multiple on-line, federated databases shared across multiple organizations and federal and state agencies, it will become much easier.

Many good arguments can be made against Dangerous ID, but they all reduce to one overpowering truth. The more information government has the less it seems to know. The more power government has the less it seems able to accomplish. Big Government doesn't work. The federal government needs to do less in order to accomplish more. Small government is focused government. We need smaller government, not a massive new federal identification system.