In the first story, the seventeen states said "no" and now Bush is punishing the citizens of those states saying they can't board airplanes without the right kind of driver's license. Maybe this will be the last straw and people will stand up and say "No more."
The second story - the government is drugging people involuntarily? Is this America? And we just sit back and take it? At least the judge said, "No."
These were both short items in the Anchorage Daily News. I could only find the second one online in the ADN, the other was apparently taken from the LA Times. (Why doesn't the ADN credit the LA Times?)
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration hit the brakes Friday on a controversial law requiring Americans to carry tamper-proof driver's licenses, delaying its final implementation by five years, until 2017.The rest of the story is here.
A number of states have balked at the law, objecting to it largely over cost and privacy concerns. But under the administration's new edict, states that continue to fight compliance with the law face a penalty: Their residents will be forbidden from using driver's licenses to board airplanes or enter federal buildings as of May 11 of this year.
The full story is here.U.S. immigration agents must not sedate deportees without a judge's permission, according to a policy change issued this week. Immigration officials have acknowledged that 56 deportees were given psychotropic drugs during a seven-month period in 2006 and 2007 even though most had no history of mental problems. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit over the practice in June.
These caught my eye the other day, too. Very disturbing. I can just hear it, though, deportees are not "citizens and therefore do not have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
ReplyDeleteugh, a nat'l id? Just wait, they will start having id checks around the country like they have in LA.