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Kalifornia: Security Threat

Two days prior to the second 9-11 anniversary, Governor Gray (Gray Out) Davis signed a bill that authorized the Kalifornia Department of Transportation to issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. There have always been low-down, belly slithering smarmy politicians, but Davis seems to have reached a new low on the smarmy meter.

Unless you’ve been living in a hole, everyone knows that for the first time in history Kalifornia has triggered a recall election for Gray Davis, and Arnold (The Governator) Schwarzenegger is gunning for Gray’s job. Gray needs votes to defeat the recall, and he has no scruples about how or where he gains those votes.

Gray and the Kalifornia legislature are simply building upon another flawed law called Motor-Voter and euphemistically named the National Voter Registration Act. Sounds very American—after all, who could oppose voting? Basically, the Act assumes that if people are issued new or renewed driver’s licenses, then they should register to vote the next time.

A driver’s license has become the de facto internal American passport: Think about it: I can use a driver’s license to board an airplane; to verify my identification for credit card purchases; to purchase a hand gun I need to produce a driver’s license and a purchase permit; I am required to carry a driver’s license and my carry permit when I pack a concealed weapon in public; oh yes! I need one when I drive a vehicle.

There is one other time I use a driver’s license—when I vote. I use it to prove I live inside the political boundaries for the election. However does the possession of a driver’s license convey the right to vote? No.

The right to vote is conveyed by citizenship.

Gray Davis wants to get around this inconvenient fact. As a boon to the Hispanic population, Gray signed the bill into law, hoping to encourage newly issued illegals to vote for him. It is as callous and cynical as that. By the way, this was the unspoken agenda behind the Motor-Voter law at the federal level. Of course, those who support such ill conceived laws promote them using words like freedom and liberty instead of fraud and larceny.

A driver’s license is used as a form of identification throughout the country. Some of those transactions are security related, but the Kalifornia law does nothing to identify citizen or non-citizen. So ask yourself a couple of questions:

1. Remember those hanging Florida chads in 2000, how many of them were punched by non-citizens and counted? Then ask, how many were punched by active duty military and discarded? Do we want a bigger problem in 2004?
2. On September 11, 2001 19 Middle Eastern men changed a nation. Do you want to trust airline security to a system that relies on driver’s license to validate identity?
3. Should states outside Kalifornia refuse to honor Kalifornia driver’s licenses? And what are the ramifications of such actions?

To me this is further proof as to why the left can not be trusted with security related matters. They simply do not seriously believe that WE ARE A NATION AT WAR. If you get nothing else out of anything I have written, understand this: The war on terror is at its core a war between Judea/Christian and fanatical Islamic civilizations. Only one will survive, and I intend to be one of the survivors.

Of course, you may dismiss Gray Davis’s actions as the frivolous meanderings of a desperate politician, but those are the kinds of actions that put people at risk and ultimately get people killed.

How the rest of the country deals with the irresponsible actions of the Kalifornia state government will unfold over time. However, the first shots against those who wish to tear down our country did not come from Washington or your State Capitol. They came over a lonely farm field in Pennsylvania when the passengers of Flight 93 decided their fate and stopped the fourth plane from hitting another target.

Perhaps in another time, the rest of us could go about our business and ignore the self-servicing, pompous acts of a desperate state, but this isn’t another time and Kalifornia’s actions impact all of us.

By the way, I know California is not spelled with a K, but Gray Davis and his cronies probably spell America: Amerika. Certainly their actions pay no respect to people fighting this war.