Posted on 01/29/2002 11:01:29 PM PST by summer
Is this the ACTUAL PICTURE of the DL? Because if they are claiming it is, it IS NOT. The picture does not appear to be real. I have a FL driver's licence, and my picture is underneath the "Class E" part, but if you were looking at it you would not have to turn it to see the person's picture. It would be FACING you. Also....there is no "state" there right in the middle of your face. There is a irridescent one, but it would start right next to the "a" in Florida, not in the middle of your face.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/618460/posts?page=198#198
a few pages back for full picture.
It may be an unfair burden to arrest her for violating "man's law" when she declares she only be tried in "Islamic courts" under "Islamic law".
Did George Washington need to get a riders' license and a set of tags for his horse's rump in order to conduct himself on the public roads using his private property (his horse)? Nope. What has changed since then? Certainly not the Constitution in this regard.
If you say "Hey," followed by the above highlighted passage aloud, you get, "Hey, look a' me, Babaloo!"
Was that grim lot somehow inspired by that all time great tune, "Bobaloo's Wedding Day"?
The words, obviously. :)
Straining at gnats...
"The argument that wearing that full veil is a religious requirement is fallacious; many Islamic women wear a headscarf which only exposes from the eyebrows to the chin. That would be most likely be suitable for both Florida law and Islamic belief."
Bingo. If this flies, the next step could easily be a requirement that they wear gloves, and theaten lawsuits if any "infidel" demands that they remove them for fingerprinting when applying for security clearance, when arrested, and so forth.
There's got to be a reason (or a slew of reasons) that they're striving so hard to set a precedent with this.
One sign of maturity is the ability to set reasonable boundaries, and think in other than completely black and white terms.
I see nothing wrong with biometrics such as thumbprints or retinal scans for drivers licenses. I'd draw the line there, because that's entirely sufficient for the DL requirements, i.e., verifying that the bearer is in fact the licensee. DNA profiles on the other hand are way over the top, akin perhaps to instituting the death penalty for jaywalking, cooking chicken wings with a blast furnace, and killing mosquitoes with H-bombs.
When we demand an all-or-nothing response, we're apt to get nothing. IOW, if we insist that no readily defeated ID method be included in a DL, the only thing we accomplish is to discount ourselves out of the equation. Thus, those who want to go to the extreme in the other direction will get what they want without "objection". Say goodbye to thumbprint, say hello to encoded inner-cheek swab DNA sequence.
When I see stuff like that, I'm reminded of Lou Costello's famous blackboard skit, where he uses a few square feet of chalk marks to prove that 2 + 2 = 22.
That depends on whether or not she's bright enough to change her "Islamic" last name to "al Gore", doesn't it?
Jab a hyphen between the two esses and you'll have a reasonable approximation of how they view our laws.
Oh, but I forgot this is about imposing one's beliefs on the government and forcing everyone to sacrifice their rights to have safe driving regulations enforced. It's all about me!!! (whine, whine)
"I imagine most others are like that. Your license can be revoked or not granted if you refuse to meet the requirements."
It's actually somewhere between the two. If it was truly a privilege, it could be revoked for any or no reason, and if it was an absolute right, it could not be revoked for any reason.
As it stands, you have a "right" to drive so long as you do so in compliance with the law, which applies equally to any and all. The DL issuing agency can't deny you that "right" on any basis other than failure to adhere to the law. They can't say "sorry, we don't like your kind, go away," for example.
Muslim needs = every human's needs = food, shelter, clothing (depending where you live)... etc.
Since when is a driver's license a need? Since when is covering your face for an ID photo a "need"? Whiny worse-than-useless bastards.
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