License? We Don't Need No Steenkin' License!

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 13 January 2008 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Socratic]

‘Scuse thew double post, I only clicked once.

That's what they all say, say.

[drjimmy]

Title required shortening the quote, while using accurate words and concepts.

So, fake but accurate?

[Congressman Billybob]

Sheesh. “We the People” is often used as shorthand for the Preamble of the Constitution. Both the words and the concept are accurate.

As a poetic device, that is called Synecdoche.

John / Billybob

[Atlas Sneezed]

Nor “Frankly, Scarlett, I don’t give a damn.”

[Congressman Billybob]

Also Known As:. Treasure of Sierra Madre

I looked it up.

John / Billybob

[proud2beconservativeinNJ]

Anyone who thinks otherwise is participating in the piecemeal destruction of America.

It seems so obvious. Why can't we fix it faster? Like yesterday?

[o_zarkman44]

The government’s failure to stop illegal immigration should not be the backbone of a new government boondoggle that allegedly provides a fix for their ineptitude of the initial premise.

There are immigration laws already in place.
Government makes excuses why they cannot enforce the laws.
So their better idea, that makes government look like it is legitimately trying to solve the problem they have created, by not enforcing the current laws, is to impose on the “subjects” another program they will ultimately fail to deliver on.

We are born in a State. We live in a State. We are educated in a State. We learn to drive in a State. The State issues our birth records. We live under State Laws.
I am a citizen of my State first. I am not a subject of the federal kingdom. There is nothing wrong with the State recordkeeping. There is nothing wrong with State law enforcement.

But there is everything wrong with a federal mandate that forces me to obtain permission and travel documents within my own country when I am already a legal resident.

The Real ID is a distraction ploy. The American citizen is NOT the problem. The problem is with the illegal immigrants and the governments inability or willingness to enforce those SPECIFIC LAWS related to immigration.
They can’t even build a damn border fence. I bet in monetary cost, a border fence would be much less costly than duplication of ID documents already held by lifelong American citizens.

Checking people at the borders makes much more sense, just because of the low volume, than auditing CITIZENS.
Those 12 million illegals didn’t cross the border all at the same time. They came one at a time, and they can be sent back one at a time, even if it takes 10 years to do their job the Feds told us they would do.

[Congressman Billybob]

And Mae West didn’t originally say, “Why don’t you come up and see me sometime?” W.C. Fields said it TO Mae West in the final scene of “My Little Chickadee.” He was on the stair of the boarding house, and she was leaving out the front door.

There are many movie quotes which are misremembered. Such as Strother Martin as the Warden in “Hud.” He did not say to Paul Newman digging in the hole, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.” Not quite that.

John / Billybob

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[Congressman Billybob]

I understand your arguments. However, all adults in the US who drive cars have been required to carry drivers licenses since about 1915. All this does is guarantee that people who carry those STATE drivers licenses are who the license says they are, and that they have a right to be in the US.

There will still be, BTW, some differences between the licenses issued by the various states.

John / Billybob

[Onelifetogive]

...the US has become the ad hoc welfare department for Mexico (and a hundred other nations).

It seems unfair to me that we REQUIRE non-Americans to break our laws in order to qualify for American welfare benefits. If there is no citizenship requirement for welfare and other benefits (in-state tuition, medical care, etc.) then we should not require non-Americans to come here to collect the benefits. We should do the right thing and deliver the benefits to them in their home countries. Basically, every person in the world should immediately become "quasi-American-citizens" with all the rights and privileges of American citizenship.

Or.....

...maybe we could limit the rights of American citizenship to American citizens.... I'm just saying...

[EEDUDE]

You make some very good points that I hadn’t considered.

We do have a problem with forged identification or ID that was obtained using forged documents.

Hopefully the steps my state is taking will allowed those using phony drivers licenses to be apprehended.

Thanks for your input.

[stylin19a]

Sheesh !..use Synecdoche as cover for a screw-up ?
Must be a politician.

p,s The bast_rdized quote you DO use is from Blazing Saddles, not Treasure of Sierra Madre.

Now go ahead and get the last word.

[Congressman Billybob]

Look up the word “Synecdoche.” Not fake. Short, but accurate.

John / Billybob

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the response.

[DoughtyOne]

I will say that this is becoming our defacto national ID card, and I think that will be problematic.

[jnsun]

Those 12 million illegals didn’t cross the border all at the same time. They came one at a time, and they can be sent back one at a time, even if it takes 10 years to do their job the Feds told us they would do.

Which means that the so-called "problem" of mass deportation is entirely bogus.

Those illegal aliens got here through their own actions, including a lot of planning, exertion, and risk. They can, just as, or more easily, go back to Mexico on their own, if conditions are made (like employment) so that is in their better interest.

Funny, they say that George Bush was such a great poker player at the Skull and Bones. He, dragging along the American taxpayer, has been totally snookered by the Mexican government.

It is incomplete to look at the whole illegal alien thing without invoking Mexico, its government, its criminal institutions, as almost an enemy, or at least hostile neighbor. Mexico has adequate natural resources for its own.

So much for the current administration's "foreign relations" experience.

This is bad, bad stuff

[Moonmad27]

That drawing in post #29 - where did you get a picture of Rage Boy’s family reunion?

[KrisKrinkle]

You are correct. He didn’t say anything quite like that, or anything else, in “Hud” :)