Nebraska legislative bill LB261 was introduced by Sen. Kent Rogert this year. This is the government's third attack on Nebraska citizens directed at tagging the population with RFID (radio frequency identification) cards.

The first attack, after the REAL ID bill was passed by Congress, was summarily rejected by our state legislators 2 years ago. Last year, Congress continued to demand that every state adopt the legislation. With the REAL ID bill introduced in Nebraska once again, it was only adopted half way - basically ignoring the federal integration and the machine-readable components and adopting the centralization of information. This prepares the state to adopt the federal demands at a later date and sent a message that Nebraskans were watching too closely to pass the bill, but Nebraska will prepare for the complete program behind the scenes.

This legislative session, the battle continues as LB261 would allow for the machine-readable component. Even worse, there is no provision to keep a snooping U.S. Government from having full access to the trail of information that would be recorded on the driver's licenses. The essence of this legislation is actually WORSE than the first attempts at our state's REAL ID legislation.

Why is it worse? This piece of legislation actually helps to install a system that would allow businesses to record and receive information via the embedded RFID chip about your purchases.

Trumpeted as a new safeguard against selling alcohol and tobacco to minors, it is extremely vague in explaining who is allowed to store and read information on the embedded chip. Make no mistake, this new state identification card will have very little to do with combatting illegal sales to minors.

Please review the history of the REAL ID Act online and contact your State Legislator TODAY!

Additional Notes: Why would the government want to tag its citizens? Well, it's helpful on many levels. But this government mandate comes down to the NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY. This is a corridor spanning from Mexico to Canada for the purpose of distributing the yummy goods and services that Americans can't get enough of across North America in a more efficient - and profitable - manner. Who's going to profit? Look it up on Youtube.com or just google it. I think you'll get the picture. In addition, if you were paying attention 3 years ago, this REAL ID was supposedly being installed to fight terrorism. The government said we wouldn't be able to get on a plane or into a federal building without it. Well, guess what, they couldn't pull it off then - and we can't let them pull it off now.