The Recalcitrant NH Citizen is Proud
A couple or three weeks ago I wrote here about NH bucking the Real ID law mandates. The law is stupid and a waste of money. More than half the states don’t and never will comply with standards- yet have gotten Uncle Sam’s blessing. Not NH- and three other states who openly defied the Federal government.
The showdown came to a head this past week and the feds blinked.
MANCHESTER – New Hampshire has won a skirmish in the battle against the RealID federal mandate.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed yesterday to postpone imposing the requirements until Dec. 31, 2009.
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New Hampshire won the extension by detailing existing security measures and new measures to be incorporated this year to driver’s licenses and identification cards.It amounts to a compromise, one tailored after Montana’s argument that its state security measures were already tough enough. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer held his ground, declaring the federal government could “go to hell.”
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch is no less opposed to RealID, especially since state law prohibits New Hampshire from participating in the federal system.
I would have preferred Gov. Lynch tell the feds where to go, as Montana’s governor did. But Mr. Lynch is a gentleman.
Anyway NH will not change it’s law so the fed government will in effect, have to go to hell. If it means NH citizens “suffer” consequences, so be it. It’s better than being overly TREADED UPON as most the other states are allowing.
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3 Responses to “The Recalcitrant NH Citizen is Proud”
hawk on 29 Mar 2008 at Sat 29 March 2008 14:18:30 #
If REAL ID goes away it will just come back again from a different angle, like an “optional” “enhanced drivers license” that makes drivers licenses good for border crossings under WHTI or the SPP. Look next door to Vermont, where they have signed on to create these enhanced drivers licenses. These take your licenses, add a federal RFID chip to them, and turn them into limited passports. RFID was too controversial for even REAL ID, but they have managed to get states that have fought REAL ID to go along with these EDLs. Since the Department of Homeland Security has said that they now want all EDLs to be REAL ID compliant, EDLs look to become the same things as REAL ID, just with a different name. States have yet to catch on to this bait and switch, especially the ones fighting REAL ID.
A good website: http://realidwatch.blogspot.com/
Raven on 30 Mar 2008 at Sun 30 March 2008 17:29:20 #
We’re onto here in NH- there’s been a lot of talk of all this. We have a law on our books: NH will not abide by any form of the Real ID- nor ant other form of government intervention
Raven on 30 Mar 2008 at Sun 30 March 2008 17:31:58 #
oops…hit submit too fast
NH won’t follow any National standards. Because our standards are good enough and don’t delve into personal information that can be used against citizens. We like the term
DON’T TREAD ON ME
and we take it seriously.
I hope we continue to buck the feds. Because if we don’t we’ll become the lemmings everyone else is and has become.
One bit at a time we’re losing our liberties.