States rejecting Real I. D. law

The Missouri State Legislature was among the first to jump on board requiring all residents to jump through hoops to comply with requirements of the federal Real I. D. law, one of the laws created after 9-11 which supposedly would make our nation safer.
While Missouri rolled over and enacted the legislation other states are fighting it, just as Missouri should have done:

What state officials are hoping is that Congress will repeal or modify the law, or at least provide some of the billions of dollars the states claim it will cost to establish the new licensing system nationwide.
The campaign features an odd mix of liberal Democrats, offended by a measure in the law that would effectively block illegal immigrants from getting federally compliant driver’s licenses, and conservative Republicans, who see the law as an affront to civil liberties and to states’ rights.
“This is a frontal assault on our freedoms,” said State Representative Jim Guest of Missouri, a Republican who said he was working with more than two dozen states to pass laws opposing the federal statute. “One state standing alone is not enough. But we are already gaining strong momentum here.”

Part of the problem is that no common sense is applied. When people who have had driver's license for 20, 30, 40 years or more have to prove they are Americans, it is a waste of time, both for the citizens and for the government.