North Carolina: Secret Panel Decides Who Can Drive

The Asheville Tribune ^ | May 26, 1999 | Dana Davis

[Constitution Day]

I originally found this HERE, but searched and found the source.
North Carolina FReepers - your thoughts on this?
Tinfoil hat alert or legitimate concern?

[Constitution Day]

Ping!

Posted per your suggestion.

[Psycho_Bunny]

...are to provide their social security number as mandated by President Clinton's Executive Order 13019, issued on Sept. 28, 1996...

Why is a state agency like the DMV following an Executive Order as though it were law?

[Constitution Day]

NC ping!

Please FRmail me if you want on or off this NC ping list.

Announcing: North Carolina Chapter of Free Republic!

[Constitution Day]

Our state govt. is run by the Democrats.

[monkey]

When Sylvia English, 39, single, and no children,

English says she doesn't have anything to hide. According to English, she has no insurance points, has not been in an accident, and in 33 years of driving, has received only one ticket - a DUI in 1993.

They're getting picky now, but you have to give the state credit for letting her drive when she was six.

[Askel5]

Thanks!

Driver's Licenses Will Have Bar Codes Starting This Fall

Excellent find.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Big Brother bump

[Askel5]

lol ... got the green shade on today I see.

You did send me on quite the chase with your excerpt. Found all sorts of things but am still assuming that was from some Hemingway?

[Wolfie]

SECRET PANEL DECIDES WHO CAN DRIVE

The "Car Chamber"

[monkey]

Yes, it was from A Moveable Feast, his memoir of life in Paris in the 20's. "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."

I can't believe I left off the reference. My whole point in posting it was to show that, despite the well-known Hemingway-Askel feud, the two of you have much in common.

[Constitution Day]

Good eye!

[sten]

Because under state law, driving is a privilege, not a right

That line has always bothered me. I pay taxes just like everyone else, and my taxes pay for the road system. Do I not have a RIGHT to things I purchase? If they don't want me using the roadway, simply cut me a check.

It bothers me almost as much as this little fascist gem:

"I would have no problem signing the medical report if I didn't have anything to hide."

[robowombat]

This sort of gov bullying makes me see red. Here is a ture story. A few days before Christmas 2000 my wife and I were driving through eastern north Carolina. We had reservations for a music theater at Smithfield NC and were looking for the road to the motel we were going to stay in. I realized we had gone to far south and had missed the turnoff. There was a DMV office at the intersection we had come to so we drove in to ask directions. Now this was a weekday afternoon and I figured there would be a handfull of people there. What a surprise. The fairly small DMV office was crammed with Hispanics, who from the look of their clothes had just arrived from Mexico. Not a word of English could be heard and the three clerks all had very long lines in front of their work stations. Just then one of the NC state police who give road tests stepped in and I quickly asked him for directions which he courteously provided. Now had did all these folks past muster with the DMV's Nazi rule book to get licenses? Do I hear someone say double standard? What is going on in our country? It is being carpet bagged out from under us as we watch.

[nepdap]

He explained that the only way a U.S. citizen could operate an automobile without a license would be to have no title (because a car title actually gives the state ownership of the car), . . .

I don't understand that.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

..... would be to have no title (because a car title actually gives the state ownership of the car)......

This part bothered me even more. I never heard of such a thing. Does the title to your house give the state ownership of it? Does licsening, handouts, regulations, and many other government actions give them the assumed right of control, ownership or not.

[cynicom]

As a new tarheel, I find the DMV licence program to be dangerously intrusive. In fact I was shocked at the Gestapo type questioning to obtain a NC licence in lieu of another out of state.

This entailed obtaining some written official record with my middle name, also making another trip to provide proof of residence. Also the litany of questions regarding my past health. I thot the socialist northeast states were bad but NC is right in there with them.

[gcruse]

They're getting picky now, but you have to give
the state credit for letting her drive when she was six.

LOL  Great catch!

[Constitution Day]

NC is fast becoming Taxachusetts-South, thanks to Easley, Basnight et al.
FWIW, I want to know exactly WHAT is on that bar-code on the back.

[headsonpikes]

Examiner Creasman is just a fleshy little cog in a great ugly machine.

He must be a particularly disgusting official, however; just imagine the spirit of petty malice which is apparently his muse.