"RealID" Passes the Senate 100-0

[Ted Ozolins]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 12:51, David Bandel wrote:
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>>On 5/10/05, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
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>>>Keep your powder dry...
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>>>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/10/national/w155857D84.DTL
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>>me shakes head
>>more Nazi Homeland SS stuff.  When will the stupidity stop?  This is
>>_not_ the answer.
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>Even socialist Europe does not have a common driver's license or ID
>number. There is a "European Driver's License" you can buy to satisfy
>some auto rental companies, or if you will be in some other country for
>an extended amount of time. But it is not the same thing.
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>Leave it to the U.S. to be first.
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In British Columbia, Canada, you have to produce a birth
certificate/citizenship and SIN to get your drivers license. This is
also required if you are transferring from an out of province license to
a B.C. license. You are then given a temporary license and if all checks
out you receive your photo license in the mail. Yet they still find
false (forged/bought) motor vehicle operator permits. This was suppose
to stop all that and it has not. Their claim was that these measures
would also make car theft easier to control.  It does not matter what
phony reason is given, the end result is still the same, being
investigated for no reason at all.

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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C