Tuesday - February 15, 2005

Anyone Staying On Top Of This?

Sorry, but I have not had much time to do so.

In January House Bill 418 was proposed which would:

“replace a more restrictive 2004 law and give the federal government additional control over the design and content of driver’s licenses and ID cards, limit to whom and under what circumstances states are allowed to issue them and mandate participation in a network of identification databases open to some foreign officials.”

This bill gives the government much more power over how states issue drivers’ licenses and what to do with the data collected from them.  Representative Ron Paul is VERY concerned. In a letter he asks:

“What is to stop a corrupt foreign official from selling or giving the most sensitive information about your constituents - their name, address, date of birth, Social Security number, and other identifying characteristics - to Mexican drug lords, to terrorist cells that most experts believe are operating in Mexico and possibly Canada, to terrorist organizations overseas, to human traffickers who will use their identities to create even more convincing fraudulent documents?”

I smell a national ID card.  Don’t you?  All under the guise of “immigration control.”

With the government getting so much power what’s to prevent them from demanding even more than the basic info contained on licenses now?  Like whether or not you are registered to own/carry/conceal a firearm?

This is very disturbing.  Read all about it here.

Here is the link to Ron Paul’s letter to the Speaker of the House.

As far as I am concerned the Feds should just require that states link their databases in order for checks to be done on individuals.  States should also have instant access to the Social Security database of numbers to ensure no abuse is taking place.  Other than that what gets put on the license should be a state issue.

Plus, why the hell don’t these Congress-cretins try making it easier for states to get rid of illegals instead of sheltering them under some guise of constitutional protection?

This will be nothing more than another intrusive law which criminals will tip-toe around the actions which the state/federal officials will ignore as they are ignoring laws on the books now.

DISTURBING!  DISTURBING!  DISTURBING!!

Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler     on 02/15/2005 at 06:52 AM   
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