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Stand Firm Against the Privacy-Violating National ID Card

Target: Governors of ME, MT, NH, OK and SC
Sponsored by: American Civil Liberties Union

The federal effort to create a national identity card would take us one step closer to a surveillance society, erode our right to privacy, and put our personal information at risk!

Real ID would force all states to connect their DMV databases to one single interlinked system -- facilitating government tracking of ordinary Americans. It would also expose our most sensitive personal information to criminal identity theft.

Governors in five states courageously rejected this invasive law and the dramatic tax increases required to pay its massive price tag last year. If these states stand their ground, Congress will be forced to repeal this horrible program!

Thank the Governors who’ve stood up against the national ID card AND ASK THEM TO KEEP UP THE FIGHT.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 20,000

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Dear Governor [Name],

Thank you for standing up to the Bush administration and fighting against the Real ID Act. Your courageous stand is not only protecting state residents, but also setting a national example to other states.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of Real ID on our privacy and pocketbooks, and I am very pleased that you opted out of the program last year. Since the Department of Homeland Security has failed to heed the concerns of the states about this misguided and dangerous law, it is even more critical now that the states that have rejected it stand together against the administration's scare tactics.

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Again, thank you for leading the charge against Real ID. Please stand strong and keep protecting our privacy and civil rights.

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We signed the “Stand Firm Against the Privacy-Violating National ID Card” petition!

# 100:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, JC Sanford, New York

# 99:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, Rebecca Snearly, Texas

# 98:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, Janet T, Texas

# 97:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, Terrien Hale, Nevada

# 96:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, Brandy Mertes, Illinois

# 95:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, Jessica Burlew, Wisconsin

# 94:

2:12 pm PST, Feb 19, Michael Grice, Oregon

# 93:

2:11 pm PST, Feb 19, Lori Stefano, Washington

# 92:

2:11 pm PST, Feb 19, Donna Schumacher, Texas

# 91:

2:11 pm PST, Feb 19, Mary Magee, Maryland

# 90:

2:11 pm PST, Feb 19, Gigi Pomerantz, Wisconsin

# 89:

2:11 pm PST, Feb 19, Jacqueline Tremlin, Idaho

# 88:

2:11 pm PST, Feb 19, Rob Clifford, Colorado

# 87:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, Vic Kern, Oklahoma

# 86:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, John Ambrozaitis, Oregon

# 85:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, Brenda Morgan, New York
We need our privacy

# 84:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, Kelli Baker, Washington

# 83:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, Name not displayed, Oklahoma
We want our privacy protected! Don't take that away from us or prepare for a riot!

# 82:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, Karen Sewick, Illinois

# 81:

2:10 pm PST, Feb 19, Janet Myrick, Georgia

# 80:

2:09 pm PST, Feb 19, Leigh C. Griffith, Maine
Thanks Gov. Baldacci. I live three miles from Canada and have relatives on both sides of the border. Don't make it even harder to keep in touch!

# 79:

2:08 pm PST, Feb 19, Melissa Williams-Maddox, Oklahoma

# 78:

2:08 pm PST, Feb 19, Robert T . Jeffcoat Sr., South Carolina
Our Country is supposed to stand for freedom. Our rights are being taken away a little more each day. Being disabled, if I can't afford food, I go hungry because I receive Disability. After rent, light bill, phone bill, gas, Health and Life Insurance etc., many months we run out of money. We live on grits and eggs if we have them. Others get free food, housing, transportation and medical benefits. I have to pay for mine or do without. Equality should mean just that. Our Country needs to wake up and protect our rights, not take them away. I will end with what I hold dear to my heart and even this is trying to be taken from us, God Bless us all and our Country.

# 77:

2:07 pm PST, Feb 19, Janine Moore, Maine

# 76:

2:04 pm PST, Feb 19, Mickey Mcgee, Montana
Let's defeat the new world order! The people are awakening to the criminals who have infiltrated our system of the Republic. We do not want a national I.D. card as it is a incrementation of a one world government that would end our sovereignty as a free republic! It is time to wake up and rip this scum from their ivory towers and end this evil!

# 75:

2:04 pm PST, Feb 19, Blenda Erwood, South Carolina
Keep up the good fight to protect our privacy

# 74:

2:03 pm PST, Feb 19, Name not displayed, Oklahoma

# 73:

2:02 pm PST, Feb 19, Timothy Brown, Oklahoma

# 72:

2:02 pm PST, Feb 19, Thomas Pirovano, Switzerland
Hopp!

# 71:

2:01 pm PST, Feb 19, Nancy Hayden, Maine
Thank you governor Baldacci, I'm proud to be a privacy-respecting tight-fisted Mainer.

# 70:

2:01 pm PST, Feb 19, Larry Becker, South Carolina
stop

# 69:

2:00 pm PST, Feb 19, Name not displayed, Maine
Thanks Governor Baldacci, great job!

# 68:

1:59 pm PST, Feb 19, Maureen Wagner, Montana

# 67:

1:59 pm PST, Feb 19, William Clarke, Maine

# 66:

1:59 pm PST, Feb 19, Brian K. Bly, South Carolina
One of the reasons I appreciate the state of South Carolina is its emphasis on personal freedom. Thank you, governor, for standing up to the effort in Washington DC to establish a national ID card.

# 65:

1:58 pm PST, Feb 19, Pamela Lorrenzanna, South Carolina
I am all for protecting the rights of Americans, however if there is reason to believe that someone is a suspected terrorist than, by all means track them any way that is possible even tapping phones in that case is acceptable...but issuing a card for legal Americans....only keep tabs on us not the illegals or the terrorists. thank you Pamela Lorrenzanna

# 64:

1:57 pm PST, Feb 19, Richard Fowler, Maine

# 63:

1:56 pm PST, Feb 19, Constance Newman, Maine
Let's make sense. Real ID doesn't.

# 62:

1:56 pm PST, Feb 19, Stacey Schwingle, Maine

# 61:

1:56 pm PST, Feb 19, Charles French, Oklahoma
Only dictatorships need to keep close track of their citizens. The USA is not a dictatorship and a national ID card is not needed

# 60:

1:55 pm PST, Feb 19, Marsha Coleman, South Carolina

# 59:

1:55 pm PST, Feb 19, Name not displayed, South Carolina
Yet again, the Bush regime tries to manipulate the Constitution to a more sinister end! Thanks for standing up for the poor, the disenfranchised, those that have no voices, Governors!

# 58:

1:54 pm PST, Feb 19, Chris Spicer, Oklahoma

# 57:

1:54 pm PST, Feb 19, Loraine Lowell, Maine
This is supposed to be the land of the free . Those rights that make us free are being stolen by a fear-mongering government. I'm proud of my governor for standing firm against federal efforts to violate our privacy.

# 56:

1:54 pm PST, Feb 19, Gloria Bonali, South Carolina

# 55:

1:53 pm PST, Feb 19, Sharlyn Harall, Oklahoma
This sort of ID is not necessary is an infringment upon our rights to privacy. Do not make this necessary.

# 54:

1:52 pm PST, Feb 19, William Richard, Maine

# 53:

1:52 pm PST, Feb 19, Darcy Tickner, Montana
Thanks for standing up for our privacy!

# 52:

1:52 pm PST, Feb 19, Nancy Tucker, Oklahoma
Stop taking away our rights!!

# 51:

1:52 pm PST, Feb 19, Sean Reeves, South Carolina
I urge you not to let the terrorists win their fight! By implementing this kind of law, we are doing exactly what they hoped for, and the United States will no longer be a free country.

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