Posted on 03/11/2005 12:14:45 PM PST by Melinda
A group formed after 9/11 to push legislation requiring strict national standards for driver's licenses has hired the ad team that made headlines with its anti-Kerry work on behalf of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. The New York-based Coalition for a Secure Driver's License tells the Bulletin and U.S. News that an ad produced by Stevens Reed Curcio & Potholm will begin running on Washington cable and network TV Monday. "They're the best," said William O'Reilly, whose public relations firm is working with the coalition. The goal of the effort is to win national regulations that will help block terrorists from getting a driver's license. Both houses are considering legislation to tighten requirements to get a driver's license. Government officials said that the ability of the 9/11 terrorists to easily get driver's licenses was key to their effort to practice flying and gain access to the three jets they hijacked on September 11. The group said that trying to win new regulations on the state level will take too long. The ad shows terrorists easily getting driver's licenses and then says that's all they need to get on a plane and blow it up. Part of the ad script reads: "Weak state laws allowed the terrorists responsible for 9/11 to get valid driver's licenses, all the identification they needed to get on flights and carry out their deadly attacks. But even today, in many states there is nothing to stop a terrorist who is in this country from obtaining a legal driver's license. And since each year millions sneak into the U.S. illegally, our security is still in danger."
I smell another NY Times flowchart coming!
Most unfortunate.
Would this make DMV federal employees instead of State employees? Am also wondering if there would be a shift in tax dollars if the Fed's are controlling the DMV's instead of the individual states.
It means people in states that do NOT follow the federal standards cannot use their driver's licenses to board planes, enter federal buildings, etc.
It is an carrot and stick approach to forcing states to have valid id's before issueing driver's licenses.
I don't like it. Maybe improving the social security card, putting a picture on it and cleansing the database is a better idea.
FYI... the Swift Vets have nothing to do with this, and the ad company has lots of other clients. It's the same bogus association game the lamestream played to claim that the Swifts had somehow opposed John McCain because their PR firm, Spaeth Communications, had previously been involved in a primary campaign...
Well, given the current mobility of US population, it's high time to federalize as many kinds of license as possible. I have had to exchange drivers'licences due to interstate relocation more times than I care to remember.
I don't need a federal fascist internal passport. The solution to the terrorist problem is to arm the American citizenry.
http://www.news-record.com/news/local/arrestfolo031005.htm
20 suspects carried N.C. licenses
"just doing the jobs americans won't do"
betcha there are a ton of americans that would like to have those jobs.
I didn't read it the same way, connecting the Swift Vets to it at all. Its interesting that you did. I think the issue stands alone, and should be an interesting one on the horizon, worthy of more discussion.
This sounds like the time period when immigration went from a state controlled issue to a federal controlled issue.
I think if this is uniformity of standards, then it is a good thing. The problem is that traffic laws are different in all the states. Different traffic courts, different regulations, different point systems.
Standards that should be universal accross all states:
-ENGLISH is mandatory to obtain a license.
-Valid proof of USA citizenship or a valid visa.
-A DL would not be valid for any period of time longer than an I-94 visa entry card.
-Photograph required.
I was hardly the first.
How do you do that?
The federal gubbermint has no business regulating drivers licenses at a state level dangit.
Its stories like this that make me want to vote libertarian.
Of course its stories about libertarians wanting to get rid of the military that make me vote republican.
Dowd and Ivens? Now that explains everything.
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