Governor Mark Sanford WILL hold a press conference on the national ID, TOMORROW MONDAY MARCH 31, 2008
Please call Governor Mark Sanford NOW and tell him to STAND TALL FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY!
SC: Governor Mark Sanford
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12267
Columbia, SC 29211
Fax: 803-734-5167
Phone: 803-734-2100.
E-mail: http://www.scgovernor.com/contact/email/default.htm
http://www.jbs.org/node/4553
Just think! We are going to have to give up our right to be audited by the IRS!
Tell the federal government to just CLOSE all of those obsolete buildings, and go back to Washington. If they are not going to let us in, what do they need them for?
Sell them to private businesses.
Governor Sanford said this in his State of the State address back in January,
We're defending privacy rights by becoming the fifth state in the country to say no to the heavy-handed Real ID legislation from the federal government, and I thank each one of you who voiced your opinion in that important debate tied to the larger principle of limiting federal power.
http://governor.sc.gov/news/releases/jan_16 _08.htm
We don't know what the Governor will say in his press conference on Monday, but we're hoping he'll stand firm!
We ARE gathering at the State House at 9:30am in front of the Sumter St. entrance. Bring friends, make signs or bring flags. EVERYONE is needed to show our support of the No Real ID Bill the Governor signed last year.
If the Governor announces he will not file for an extension, then, we're supporting the Governor. The press conference is inside the building. I don't think we can enter with our signs. I don't know whether we can enter at all. HOWEVER, WE CAN be a presence outside for the media to see. Anyone with a large vehicle, if you want to designate a meeting place where you can pick up folks who can't drive, please let me know so we can coordinate.
We have to pull this together, FAST! Join us!!
Chertoff warns states to comply with ID rules What part of the Tenth Amendment does Chertoff not understand?
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Actung! Ve must see your papers!
By DEVLIN BARRETT, The Associated Press
Published: Friday, March 21, 2008 | Updated: 1:29 pm
Filip Horv at/AP
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff arrives for a news conference Thursday in Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia. Chertoff warns states to comply with Real ID rules. The holdouts include South Carolina, Maine and Montana.
WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff rebuked lawmakers today for seeking to stall new rules on driver's licenses that could cause big headaches for air travelers starting in May.
Federal authorities are currently at a standoff with a handful of states over a law called Real ID, which would require new security measures for state-issued driver's licenses.
South Carolina, Maine, and Montana are the only states that have not sought extensions to comply, or already started toward compliance with Real ID, which was passed after the 2001 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
A fourth state, New Hampshire, has asked to be exempted, but homeland security officials do not view that letter as a legally acceptable request, so the Granite State has not received an extension.
Chertoff has warned that if holdout states do not send a letter by the end of March seeking an extension, come May, residents of such states will no longer be able to use their driver's licenses as valid ID to board airplanes or enter federal buildings.
Such travelers would instead have to present a passport or be subjected to secondary screening.
Five senators � Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, Jon Tester and Max Baucus of Montana, and John Sununu of New Hampshire � appealed to Chertoff last week to exempt all 50 states from the looming deadline.
Chertoff responded today that it was not he, but Congress who picked the date when the law went into effect in 2005.
"You may disagree with the foregoing law, but I cannot ignore it," Chertoff said in the letter.
The law, he said, is necessary for national security according to recommendations from the commission that studied the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
"Secure identification is a cornerstone of protecting our communities," he said.
The nation's top homeland security official also offered a blunt warning to those critics who claim the government is bluffing when it says it will impose harsher security reviews in states that do not seek an extension from the Real ID law.
"Showing up at the airport with only a driver's license from such a state will be no better than showing up without identification," he wrote. "No doubt this will impel many to choose the inconvenience of traveling with a passport."
Chertoff has offered a plan to gradually implement Real ID requirements over a period of ten years, so that eventually all driver's licenses would have several layers of security features to prevent forgery. They would also be issued only after a number of identity checks, including immigration status and verification of birth certificates.
Critics of the plan say it is too expensive, an invasion of privacy, and won't actually make the country safer.
The most outspoken, Montana Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer, has said the federal government can "go to hell." He argues that Real ID won't work and the Bush administration won't be around long enough to prove it.
The holdouts include South Carolina, Maine and Montana.
Tell every governor to get on board with defending the Constitution
TELL Governors: "DON'T BLINK!"
SC: Governor Mark Sanford
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12267
Columbia, SC 29211
Fax: 803-734-5167
Phone: 803-734-2100.
E-mail: http://www.scgovernor.com/contact/email/default.htm
http://www.jbs.org/node/4553
Montana: Gov. Brian Schweitzer
http://governor.mt.gov/
Governor Brian D. Schweitzer
Office of the Governor
Montana State Capitol Bldg.
P.O. Box 200801
Helena MT 59620-0801
(406) 444-3111, FAX (406) 444-5529
http://www.jbs.org/node/7004
Maine: Governor John Elias Baldacci
http://maine.gov/governor/baldacci/index.shtml
Mailing Address
Office of the Governor
#1 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0001
Phone
207-287-3531
207-287-6548 (TTY)
Fax
207-287-1034
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