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Real ID Act infringes on state rights, individual freedoms

The Real ID Act is set to go into action beginning in May. This is the most dangerous and egregious attack on our civil liberties yet forced upon us. If I am forced to carry a driver’s license with an RFID chip in it, I will burn it in the same manner that our forefathers burnt their draft cards.

Write to the governor, state senators and state representatives. It will be up to the states to assert the rights of the individual above that of the self-anointed federal government. The threat of terrorism is a tool for the government to induce complaisant fear in us. I would rather serve an indefinite jail sentence than be complicit in the abrogation of our most precious freedoms. I am ashamed of anyone who remains willfully ignorant of this treasonous initiative.

Dan Jakeway

electrical engineering and mathematics senior

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