“Your Papers. Now.” 2
New Hampshire has qualms about federal drivers license standards:
Last month, the Republican-controlled New Hampshire House voted overwhelmingly to bar the state from participating in the program. A vote in the GOP-dominated Senate is expected in two weeks. Democratic Gov. John Lynch remains undecided
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Republican state Rep. Neal Kurk, author of the bill against Real ID, gave a stirring speech during the debate.
“I don’t believe the people of New Hampshire elected us to help the federal government create a national identification card,” Kurk told the House. “We care more for our liberties than to meekly hand over to the federal government the potential to ennumerate, track, identify and eventually control.”
What I find questionable is the linking of databases. The current Federal Administration has shown that it cannot be trusted; with access to more information, it cannot be trusted more.
April 25, 2006 at 8:27 pm
I always knew you were a states rights advocate.
April 26, 2006 at 9:49 pm
(grin) I’m a human rights advocate.
The phrase “states’ rights,” where I come from, leaves a nasty taste in the mouth, for it was used to justify denying human rights to human beings. Those of us who are old enough to have lived with Jim Crow know the the phrase “states’ rights” is a cloak for hypocrisy and oppression.