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DAVIS' SOP TO TERRORISTS: GROUNDS ENOUGH FOR RECALL

Isn't it fitting that as Davis fights to avoid the recall vote, his chief advocate is the man who did nothing about terrorism, leaving a huge mess for the present administration to clean up. When will Bill Clinton finally fade away?

September 22, 2003 -- I read Rich Lowry's column ("Terror Made Easy," Opinion, Sept. 13) and realized why this country has a sign on its back that reads kick me.

Where is homeland security? Why can't California revoke the rights of illegals to get driving licenses? Instead of taking strong steps to abort this type of asinine policy, Tom Ridge states that states enact such a policy "at their peril."

Wrong. They do so at our peril. Illegals should not be given any such right, and this type of political correctness or political pandering should never even be suggested, let alone passed into law.

Paul Alexander

Staten Island

Absent a crime, recalling a democratically elected governor is a bad idea, but Gray Davis' pandering to illegal aliens by granting them legal drivers licenses is dangerous.

If President Bush is serious about homeland security, he will veto any bill that contains one dime of funding for states like California, as well as all "sanctuary" cities.

Joseph A. Ciccolini

West Orange, NJ

Now that Gov. Gray Davis of California has signed a bill that would allow illegal aliens to obtain drivers licenses (a reversal of his previous posture), the other 49 states should begin asking holders of California drivers licenses for additional ID.

It is appalling that in these times of terrorist activity, a state would contribute to a breach of national security. It is no small wonder that Davis is the subject of a recall vote.

Chuck Eckstein

Brooklyn

Gray Davis, in a desperate bid to pander for minority votes, supports a bill that would enable illegal aliens to obtain California drivers licenses. That's a very generous reward for breaking the law.

No doubt, terrorists have taken notice. It should expedite the acquisition of phony identities for any who desires it.

Isn't it fitting that as Davis fights to avoid the recall vote, his chief advocate is the man who did nothing about terrorism, leaving a huge mess for the present administration to clean up. When will Bill Clinton finally fade away?

Pat Sobota

Staten Island

How is it that nightclub managers of yesteryear had more common sense than California's legislators and its desperate Gov. Gray Davis? In the 1970s and '80s, nightclub managers and door attendants would require that partygoers present valid IDs to assure that only adults were allowed in.

For the safety of their patrons and the preservation of their business and liquor licenses, most teenagers with bogus dime store IDs would be turned away. California's government, on the other hand, shows no such concern for the safety and self-preservation of its citizens.

Hilda Malagon

Jesus E. Moreno

The Bronx

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I totally agree. A vote for McClintock is a vote to put the Clintonista gang back in power.

EPILOGUE: THE 9^TH CIRCUIT RULING
(IMPEACHED EX- PREZ STUMPS FOR DAVIS
CLINTON PARADIGM PROVES INSTRUCTIVE FOR CALIFORNIA)

by Mia T, 9.14.03

Hamilton (or Madison) discussed the importance of wisdom and virtue in Federalist 57. "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust."

(Contrast this with clinton, who recklessly, reflexively and feloniously subordinates the common good to his personal appetites.)

Mia T, THE OTHER NIXON

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

THE ALIENS

ill clinton's essential solipsism prevents him from seeing the obvious: The clinton paradigm applicable to the California recall election is not, as the rapist demagogues, the danger of an "unconstitutional," "right-wing cabal" ouster of a despised head of state. Rather, it is the danger of not ousting a self-serving, inept defective who cavalierly trades America's national securiity for his own political viability.

Just as the clintons endangered America in order to retain power, Gray Davis is about to go against his own better judgment and give illegal aliens--including the terrorist subset-- a de facto ID-- a California driver's license.

This pernicious scheme is not only about leftist racebaiting of the increasingly significant Latino vote. It is about getting the illegal-alien vote of every stripe and recalls the best efforts of clinton vote fraud in the Golden State..

Clinton letter in English. Click for full size.

Clinton letter in Spanish. Click for full size.

Davis would be wise to exercise some caution here. The impeached ex-ersatz president is hardly supporting him. ("This is WA-A-AY bigger than Gray Davis.") For the clintons, the California recall election is no less than a proxy for their war with the Kennedys for the control of the Democrat Party.

EPILOGUE: THE 9^TH CIRCUIT RULING

It is noteworthy that merely one day after the impeached ex-ersatz prez unblushingly trampled the venue (and the Constitution and Black self-determination), his -- (and, to be fair, Carter's) -- leftist political-hack judges on the infamously 180º-off-constitutional-course 9th Circuit made their ruling to postpone the recall, likely until the California DEMOCRAT presidential primary, a move that obviously skews the turnout to the left.

Because of the synchronicity, because of the brazenness, because of the balkanizing, because the ruling is an attempt to disenfranchise the right, because the ruling increases Davis' chances to prevail (and, therefore, clinton's apparent electoral effectualness), because, if Davis prevails, the clintons are strengthened and the Kennedys are weakened, because California control is necessary for clinton redux, and because this ruling at once sticks it to Bush, (his Bush v. Gore argument provides the equal-protection precedent), and stymies the Supremes, (would they really have the political courage to revisit this?), direct clinton involvement in this decision to cannot be ruled out.

ACLU BLUNDERBUSS OR BAIT AND SWITCH?

The ACLU argument , essentially a plea for affirmative action for minority voters, seems to turn not on the equipment per se, but on minority error when using the equipment. (I suspect that a controlled study of this voter error would indict the minority voters, not any specific equipment.)

The ACLU shot at the wrong target.
If the ACLU actually wanted to reduce error in minority districts,
it would fight the Democrat Party's despicable practice of drag and drop...