{"id":48,"date":"2007-06-26T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20070626\/stop-national-id-bill\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:33","slug":"stop-national-id-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/stop-national-id-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop National ID bill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The REAL ID provision was built into a must-pass appropriations bill in 2005 to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a provision to make REAL ID permanent has been hidden in an immigration bill making its way through congress.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that a national ID program will cost individual Americans 8 billion dollars and state governments as much as 14 billion more. Sixteen states have already voted against supporting a national ID program. Help stop REAL ID from robbing Americans of our freedom and privacy!<\/p>\n<p>The Baucus-Tester and Grassley-Baucus amendments to the immigration bill strip out the REAL ID provisions. <a href=\"http:\/\/unrealid.com\/action.html\">Contact your representatives<\/a> and ask them to please support these amendments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REAL ID provision was built into a must-pass appropriations bill in 2005 to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a provision to make REAL ID permanent has been hidden in an immigration bill making its way through congress. It is estimated that a national ID program will cost individual Americans 8 billion &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/stop-national-id-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop National ID bill!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}