[mhking]

I've heard of not liking your DL photo, but damn!

[Pearls Before Swine]

She doesn't have to have a license. And, there's always fingerprints!

[SJackson]

In addition, Marks and the ACLU said the state is misinterpreting driver's license statutes and its arguments are misleading because the state has never banned veiled drivers.

Perhaps they should consider banning veiled drivers.

[Digger]

Driver license are a PRIVLEDGE not a right. BOARDERS, LANGUAGE,CULTURE - BOARDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE - BOARDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE.

[Maceman]

IF she gets to wear a mask because she is a Muslim, then I want to be able to wear one too when I get my DL photo. Otherwise it is outright discrimination against non-Muslims.

P.S. If I were Muslim I would bve too embarrassed to show my face in public too.

[JMJ333]

Funny part of this story is that this crazy person is an American white woman. She converted. I think the world is standing on end...

[TidalBore]

Being allowed to drive in this country is a privilege and not a right... so what's the big deal? None compliance with the rules means privilege gets revoked. Another frivilous law suit like the Pledge being unconstitutional. What the Hell is happening to this country????

[inflorida]

Here's the picture

[Nea Wood]

I demand the right to use Cindy Crawford's face instead of mine on my driver's license photo.

[Grut]

...the state also says driving is a privilege, not a right.

Holding a state-issued driver's license is a privilege controlled by the state; but driving, as an important means for implementing the First Amendment's right to peaceably assemble, is arguably a right.

In other words, it can be contended that while the state can refuse to issue someone a license, it cannot then forbid him or her to drive.

Any Freeper lawyers care to comment?

[browardchad]

What this case hasn't touched on is the safety issue. (Don't we love to legislate on that in this country?) How can someone wearing such restrictive head cover have sufficient peripheral vision to drive safely?

She is a road safety menace (among other things).

[Alouette]

Freeman's challenge rests on her deeply held beliefs that she should not show her face to strangers or men outside her family. Her veil, called a niqab, conceals all of her face except her eyes.

I work in a city with a large Muslim population, and most of the women that I see in the street and at the mall don't cover their faces, they wear large head scarves like this:

Any American woman who converts to Islam and then proceeds to layer herself with additional coverings that native Muslims apparently can do without, has to be butt ugly in addition to having too many bad hair days.

[ncpastor]

Then she shouldn't drive. Period.

[DoughtyOne]

the Case of the Freeper FRiva Feva is under scrutiny - super-sleuths are welcomed
come resolve the way to yesterday's Target Post, you're not out of the running yet
win your registration fees to the FRive Las Vegas Conference if you dare

[old school]

This is Bullsh*t! First of all, driving is not a privilege. Having a license to drive is a privilege! I have to ask, what is the purpose of having a driver license photo, if not to identify a licensed driver? The woman has no expectation of privacy in public. Neither her freedom of speech nor her practice of religion are impinged by the refusal of DMV officials to issue her a driver license. This ain't Saudi Arabia! If the culture here doesn't suit you, go somewhere it does! America-Love it or Leave it!

[Mamzelle]

Good Muslim women aren't supposed to drive, and it ought to be against the law to drive while wearing a blanket anyway. Think what that does to peripheral vision!

If she insists on driving while blindfolded, maybe the insurance companies should refuse to insure her.

[quietolong]

I had A DL for 20 years without a photo on it.

The state must be able to identifydrivers, criminals

OK now this has what to do with driving. ?

What your next card will be.

FAA using biometrics to enhance travel safety; smart cards to be available later to public

[1rudeboy]

Well, why doesn't she go to the SecState's office, and have a family member take her photo (sans veil) with the SecState's equipment? Then hand it over . . . voila! Problem solved.

:)

[swarthyguy]

She should be the Onion's or the SatireWire Poster Girl of the Year.

This is stupid.

I'm sure muslim women from Saudi and Iran even have to get their picture put on a passport.

It's shameful that an American lawyer even consented to take her 'case'.

[Hacksaw]

Anyone want to question that the ACLU is anti American?

[swarthyguy]

Perhaps some enterprising freeper can find pictures of her before she converted and covered her face.