Posted on 04/27/2008 7:05:54 PM PDT by GreaterSwiss
That is why the strategy is intended to create a layered defense that would create a national federal standard to operate a boat, Allen says.
The Coast Guard will work with states to establish minimum safety standards and ways to enforce the new rules. That may include requiring boat operators to have a copy of the safety certification on board with them and a piece of identification that links them to the certificate. That's important, security officials say, because currently there is no uniform requirement for pleasure boaters to have identification on board with them on the water.
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That is why the strategy is intended to create a layered defense that would create a national federal standard to operate a boat, Allen says.
Government control and yet more government control. ;-(
Another brick in the wall.
Federal boat registration/licensing will be as effective against terrorism as gun control is effective in stopping murder in Chicago.
But they’ll have a nifty database of citizens and their boats, should there be a need for a new federal tax or class of citizens who can’t own boats.
Hey, maybe putting metal detectors at Boston airports would stop hijackers from flying into buildings!
How about my canoe, then...?
Ve vant to zee your papers!
Why do we bother with States anymore? I mean what’s the point?
Bin Laden’s had his eye on my ‘63 Sears runabout for some time.
Another of the thousand cuts to freedom
The Coast Guard has domain over all navivgational waterways. That means rivers that have dams with locks etc. Most states if not all have a boat registration requirement on all motor driven boats. What next a U.S. license plate on our cars? Der all seeing Orfice of Homeland Insecurity will keep the records no doubt. G.W. Bush has given the DEMs more power and tools to use against us than Al Gore could have ever hoped for in a 16 year term. He has been the worse GOP POTUS second to none on goverment expansion including his own father who is second and Ford third.
The only proposal I see is for a new bureaucracy with which checks & credit cards will be the preferred payment.
Do these federal idiots really think some terrorist is going to comply with this paperwork. Where do they find these people?
This federal boat license proposal is just stupid. Not only a waste of time and money, but just a distraction from the real issues of security that threaten this country.
I speak from firsthand knowledge and experience when I say that this ship has already sailed - American pleasure boaters have no freedom from government harassment on US waterways.
The coast guard already has carte blanche to board any vessel in US waters - and for any reason. Oh - no good reason? Then how about a “safety inspection” - which is the preferred rationale for this burgeoning arm of our manifest tyranny.
A whole lot of Germans learned, and died learning, that lesson.
They do not care about terrorist or criminals.
They are about denying freedom to citizens.
Put another way, they are trying to make all citizens criminals.
Easier to control.
Look at gun control.
I would go on, but would take more time and energy than I have at this point.
If you have not read “Unintended Consequences” by John Ross, I suggest you do.
This is by court precedent for the EPA, I believe, so Coast Guard jurisdiction may not go so far.
Its been a long time since I was taught that, but I believe that it is essentially correct.
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