NC Welcomes Terrorists (NC Drivers Licenses Revisited)

The October issue of the Raleigh Report (available at www.forfern.com) talked about the fact that NC was so lax in issuing driver’s licenses that Pakistanis who came here from New York to get licenses said they did so because it was so easy compared to other states. As a result of pressure from several House Republicans and a few reporters, the Department of Motor Vehicles ( DMV ) then claimed that a new law was going into effect November first which would tighten up on license issuance.

Unfortunately the major media reported what DMV said without informing the public of DMV’s past record or the fact no new law was passed with a November 1 effective date. In order to avoid further scrutiny, DMV was just using the press to mislead the public by pretending to do what was needed to fix what was very obviously a major problem.

The House budget actually included a fairly obvious step in ending the practice of issuing licenses to nonresidents by requiring DMV to issue a temporary license when the applicant passed the test and to mail the permanent license to the address given by the applicant. Unfortunately, when the conferees appointed by Democrat Speaker of the House Jim Black and Democrat President Pro Tem of the Senate Mark Basnight met, they dropped that simple safeguard, perhaps because the Democrats who run the executive branch did not really want to fix the problem.

In its place they put a provision that makes a joke of the suggestion that applicants must provide documents that prove they reside in NC by saying that "if an applicant cannot produce any documentation specified" then the applicant "may complete an affidavit." That’s right, even though the documentation specified is as meaningless as a preprinted business letterhead (run off on a personal computer printer), if the applicant doesn’t want to bother with printing themselves a letterhead they can just give the examiner $2 and swear to an affidavit.

This issue isn’t going to go away. Giving official government identification to people who provide false information should be viewed as an invitation to terrorists.

In fact, he recently asked US Attorney General John Ashcroft to require airlines to refuse to accept licenses from NC and three other states as identification for boarding planes. As he stated "illegal aliens have been getting on planes all over this country with nothing more than a driver’s license to carry them on board. . .This is a very dangerous situation."

But NC officials are not concerned about the situation. Wayne Hurder, director of driver’s license certification for DMV, speaking for NC’s executive branch said "Our job is not to force compliance with immigration laws." Mr. Hurder is simply following the guidance he received from the Attorney General’s office when it was under the guidance of current Governor Mike Easley. These officials want to issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens, as Mr. Hurder explained, because they believe that illegal aliens are going to drive without a license if we don’t give them one, so why not issue licenses?

The public needs to demand changes in how licenses are issued and in the attitudes of those responsible for licensure. After September 11, the idea that anyone should be able to lie to get a license is simply unacceptable.

In an editorial November 1, the Charlotte Observer talked about how "Virginia’s liberal policy for obtaining a driver’s license or state identification card has led to fraud and corruption." They said "tens of thousands of illegal immigrants got legal driver’s licenses or identification cards in Virginia, where applicants needed none of the standard proofs of identity or residency - such as a Social Security Card or utility bill."

But when it came to NC, the editor let his friends in state government off the hook. He claimed that "such elaborate schemes as those in Virginia have not been documented in North Carolina," even though 400,000 NC drivers licenses have been issued to people who admitted they had no social security number. Perhaps he forgot that the lawyer for a Madison County license examiner who was charged with "wrongful issuance of a driver’s license" was chairman of the State Board of Elections and a fundraiser for Governor Mike Easley.

As I recall, two of the 0/11 terrorists DID had NC licenses, even though Virginia was more convenient geographically. The NC DMV is lying about tightening up the requirements in this state.
Why are they lying? Governor Easley is a mini-Clinton. He counts on illegal immigrants and their allies/families to provide votes to put/keep him in office. So the word it out, "Don't crack down on the illegals, 'cause we need the votes."
The people at the DMV who lied about a new law that "took effect on 1 November" should be fired. The reporters who believed that cr*p should be fired. Nowhere in the nation do new laws "become effective on 1 November" unless they have been passed "on an emergency basis" which only some states even permit.
"Emergency laws" require special votes and special majorities. Competent reporters and editors would know about the "emergencies" regardless of subject.
Will the general NC press repeat the lamestream media's failures with regard to Clinton? Will they bury this story of lying, incompetence and corruption because Governor Easley is "their boy"? Or, given that American lives are now clearly at risk, will they tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may?
This is just one story in one small paper in this state. We are now running a real-world test of the integrity of the media here, which involves the integrity of the drivers' licenses here.

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All true, but there's still more. This is all tied to NC's motor-voter laws which, of course, are designed to facilitate dimocrap voter fraud. Not only do we need to tighten the process to get NC driver's licenses, we must change ID requirements for voting on election day. It's all tied together.

The dims would have you believe that the simple act of showing ID at the polls is intimidation. What a joke. The same way they have bastardized the language re "racial profiling" (really "criminal profiling"), they change the language from "common sense" to "intimidation" and all of it hidden under the guise of political correctness.

The NC DMV is lying about tightening up the requirements in this state.

The DMV in this state is almost a lost cause. literally. I was once stopped for a lack of an inspection sticker which was not required in the county of my residence. In the process I couldn't locate my drivers license, but I figured that was okay...I told them my name, address and SS# to make their DMV search for my DL# easier and I end up being arrested for driving without a license because the DMV had NO RECORD of me EVER having a DL in this state even though I had had it for 5 years already with another 3 to go on it. Safe Driver included. Of course the judge dismissed the charges at court, but I've often wondered how many other people have DLs in this state in which someone has lost the record of?

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