Montana Governor Leads REAL ID Rebellion--Governor Manchin Should Join Him
Governor Manchin and the legislature should IMMEDIATELY join in this just rebellion--to preserve Constitutional rule of law vs. the Security State fascism under the plea of necessity--and pass the pending BI-PARTISAN legislation against REAL ID now, without further delay! (See the pending legislation linked at the top of this blog, and call your Senators and Delegates, and the governor now. Also see our tag of "REAL ID" for all articles on the blog.)
The coercion being attempted by Chertoff and Homeland Security (an extra-constitutional office, patterned after the Gestapo) is blatant blackmail and pure despotism that requires firm and immediate resistance. To threaten that Americans do not have rights, or presumption of innocence, and must be pre-booked like criminal suspects in order to fly or obtain federal services (power belongs to the people, not the government, per State and Federal constitutions) is pure tyranny, and an overthrow of the very liberties embedded in the Bill of Rights, that reaches as far back as the Magna Carta.
CLG adds the following commentary and summary of several articles, all worth reading. BE INFORMED ON THIS...IT'S YOUR FREEDOM AT STAKE!
Montana Governor Foments Real ID Rebellion [Awesome!] 18 Jan 2008 Montana declared independence Friday from a federal identification rules and called on governors of 17 other states to join him in forcing a showdown with the federal government which says it will not accept the driver's licenses of rebel states' citizens starting May 11. If that showdown comes to pass, residents of non-complying states could not use a driver's license to enter a federal courthouse or a Social Security Administration building nor could board a plane without undergoing a pat-down search... and almost certainly leading to a flurry of federal lawsuits. "Today, I am asking you to join with me in resisting the DHS coercion to comply with the provisions of REAL ID," Governor Brian Schweitzer (D) wrote.
Governor Schweitzer Asks Other Governors to Join Him in Resisting "Real ID" (governor.mt.gov) 18 Jan 2008 Last year, the Montana Legislature unanimously passed, and I signed, a bill to prevent our state from participating in Real ID [Mont. Code. Ann. sec. 61 -5-128 (2007)]. We recognized that Real ID was a major threat to the privacy, constitutional rights, and pocketbooks of ordinary Montanans... Today, I am asking you to join with me in resisting the DHS coercion to comply with the provisions of REAL ID... Please do not accept the Faustian bargain of applying for the DHS extension. If we stand together, either DHS will blink or Congress will have to act to avoid havoc at our nation's airports and federal courthouses.
DHS Suggests a REAL ID Could be Necessary for Medicine By Ryan Singel 16 Jan 2008 A top homeland security policy maker [Stewart Baker] suggests that the recently released mandates for a de-facto national I.D. card could help stop meth labs, if the government required that pharmacy's demand that cold medicine buyers show their REAL ID.
States have until May 11 to request extensions to the Real ID rules that were released last Friday. Extensions push back the 2008 deadline for compliance as far as out 2014 if states apply and promise to start work on making the necessary changes |
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