While doing some searching on where Utah is at with the REAL ID Act, I came across this resolution - H.R. 2 Resolution Opposing Real Id Act - Sponsored by Glenn A. Donnelson. Reading through the resolution you realize that it's totally awesome. They lay out all the reasons why REAL ID sucks.

According to the status page for the resolution, and if I'm reading it correctly, It looks like the House (as in Utah's house) has passed the resolution and it is currently waiting to be filed with the Governor. I'm not up on my United States law processes, but I think the Governor has an opportunity to veto it at this point. I wrote him an email urging him not to, and I urge you to do the same. My email was generic like "please oppose anything to do with REAL ID. REAL ID is not good for Utah."

Here's some highlights from the resolution, if you don't want to read the whole thing (which at a whopping three pages would surely keep you up all night):

identification-based security provides only limited security benefits because it can be avoided by defrauding or corrupting card issuers and because it gives no protection against people not already known to be planning or committing wrongful acts

the use of identification-based security cannot be justified as part of a "layered" security system if the costs of the identification "layer"--in dollars, lost privacy, and lost liberty--are greater than the security identification provides

the "common machine-readable technology" required by the REAL ID Act would convert state-issued driver licenses and identification cards into tracking devices, allowing computers to note and record people's whereabouts each time they are identified

the requirement that states maintain databases of information about their citizens and residents and then share this personal information with all other states will expose every state to the information security weaknesses of every other state and threaten the privacy of every American

the REAL ID Act wrongly coerces states into doing the federal government's bidding by threatening to refuse noncomplying states' citizens the privileges and immunities enjoyed by other states' citizens

the REAL ID Act thus imposes a national identification system through the states, premised upon the threat to national security, but without the benefit of public debate and discourse

How awesome is that?! This is for real - The Federal Government passed the REAL ID Act as a rider to an emergency spending bill for the war in Iraq. Everyone voted for it because the troops over there needed the money. Now we all have to be added to a national database by May 2008 where everything we do will be tracked. I know that sounds like a tinfoil hat theory, but it's right there in the bill - they want to track everything so they can look for terrorist patterns. The senator from Texas said you would not be able to make a purchase without it being logged in a national database.

Of course, resolutions don't really mean much. All they mean is that a body is an agreement about something, but not that they're necessarily doing anything about it. Still, passing a resolution does send a strong message to congress, and makes sure everyone is in agreement when it comes down to making laws regarding the issue.