Identity theft and fraud is no minor thing- those who engage in it are able to destroy the reputations and credit of innocent victims, incur debts on the innocent, do economic harm to credit companies and other businesses, add unneccessary red tape and costs to the legal process, obtain welfare or other benefits and entitlements fraudulently (defrauding people who unlike the perps, DO pay taxes) and engage in smuggling and other criminal activity, none of which is beneficial to our liberties but rather, give people more ammo to try to legislate them away in the name of going after criminals. These weren't teenagers trying to get beer with a fake ID, nor truckers trying to limit the number of tickets to their licenses- we are talking about birth certificates here, and most importantly, defense-related ID, the kind of fake ID which simply isn't required for petty criminals but is pretty handy for wanna-be terrorists or people who wish to undermine national security / defense.
Combined with everything else in their possession, the fake IDs are very good reason to take the case seriously and not dismiss it as a mere case of the kooks.
The documents intended for Edward Feltus, 56, of Old Bridge, N.J., included birth certificates from North Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia and phony identification cards for the Defense Intelligence Agency and the United Nations Multinational Force. Feltus pleaded guilty to possessing the documents.
Sorry, but it sounds like the Great White Defendant to me. Read the article again. You can scour it end to end for an actual bomb - none. An "illegal" gun, even under the microscopic scrutiny of a federal prosecutor - NONE! An actual threat to anyone or anything - NADA.
This is a reverse affimative action case. Within five miles of these guys there is probably a mosque full of young Moslem men spewing hate and vowing death to us all. These guys are kooks who think a civil war is coming - someday.