"Real ID" needs a birth cert.. Ooooook....

[ruiner4u]

So one of the requirements for the new 'real ID' card is a birth certificate <BC>.

Last year I lost I needed to get a replacement BC. I googed Indiana health and human services and ended up on a company that will mail you a BC as long as you provide name, date, and money...

Google your state, follow the links, and see how easy it is for you to get a copy of your BC...


So how the hell does this make us any safer?

[Kool Kitty]

1. It doesn't.

You don't really think they are trying to protect us, do you? I'm sure this is being done because one of their friends is going to make a whole pile of money. Why would they bother if it wouldn't?

[Swamp Rat]

2. It doesn't make us safer at all.

It's to control us, so that when the New World Order decides to destroy any one of us, it can be done more quickly and efficiently.

[cynatnite]

3. When I got mine from California some years ago...

I had to fax them a current photo ID and social security card.

Some are better than others. Maybe Indiana will get a clue and put more restrictions so it's not so easy.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. DO NOT use one of those companies!

Go straight to the records department yourself. Those companies just jack up the price to you.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. I knew a lady who went thru all kinds of hell getting a BC.

She was born in Indian Territory in 1901 in a sod house, and had to file the affidavits of two people as to the day she was born. Also she was the only person I've ever known who had smallpox -- and survived to be 90-something!

[JCMach1]

6. I needed mine for some reason in FL a few years back and found THE ORIGINAL

was not good enough. I had to shell out the money to get 'the Official' new document! :grr:

[kentuck]

7. This is some scary shit.

Really...

[Caretha]

8. I lost my SS card

and had to apply for a new one. One problem, I was born in an Army Hospital overseas and that certificate wouldn't cover it since the Patriot Act was enacted. I had to write to the State Department, send them $40 and all sorts of certification, and then wait 3 months for a certificate saying I was a US citizen.

[nealmhughes]

9. I have a friend whose mother was a British subject and he was born of her and a US airman in a RAF

base's hospital, lived in Florida most of his life -- and when he went into the USN, he had to go to the British consulate and officially renounce his British citizenship to get his security clearance!
He had never even been to the UK since he was a child except to attend a grandparent's funeral as a teen!
And that was in the early 80s, prior to the security state! Imagine all the kids coming of age now born in Turkey, Italy, Panama, etc. nowadays!
Especially if the birth certificates are not in English!

[kurth]

10. Same shit they tried to pull on Medicare/Medicaid recipients

The next Congress should repeal this garbage.