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Title: LAPD Chief: Illegal Immigrants Should Get Licenses
Source: NBC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
URL Source: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/l ... ld-Get-Licenses-140162953.html
Published: Feb 25, 2012
Author: NBC SAN DIEGO
Post Date: 2012-02-25 08:57:04 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
Keywords: None
Views: 382
Comments: 26

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LA Police Chief Charlie Beck said he supports giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants in California to improve roadway safety. "I think it's important that the state look at licensing undocumented immigrants," Beck said during a media availability on Thursday. "It's a public safety issue. People that are licensed are more likely to have insurance, more likely to report accidents, more likely to have vehicles that are registered to them." Beck said the state has failed to reduce the number of illegal immigrants driving without a license.

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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, *California list* (#0)

If one views driving (travel) as a right and not a govt granted 'privilege' there is no problem with anyone driving regardless. It would be interesting to take a poll on this here to gauge what the majority of posters think.

Artisan  posted on  2012-02-25   11:34:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#3. To: Artisan (#1)

If one views driving (travel) as a right and not a govt granted 'privilege' there is no problem with anyone driving regardless. It would be interesting to take a poll on this here to gauge what the majority of posters think.

While I am not if favor of granting illegals licenses (I am in favor of deporting them) I come down in favor of requiring licensing as a public safety measure. As long as the government does not abuse the licensing procedure to fulfill an agenda hidden and separate from insuring that drivers meet a minimum standard of proven competency it is a safety measure which benefits all drivers as a group. I understand the arguments against licensing but the roads are a public commons and I see nothing that conflicts with my generally libertarian views in requiring a license - regardless of whatever you name it. I think most of the objections to competency testing seems to revolve around the use of the word license to describe it. However, the function of requiring a driver to have at least met a minimum standard of knowledge and competence is not something I regard as infringing upon individual liberty. Absolutes are unobtainable in the real world and so I want to shy away from absolutism simply for the sake of trying to impose an abstract philosophically absolutist principle upon others.

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-02-25 17:12:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Artisan (#1)

If one views driving (travel) as a right and not a govt granted 'privilege' there is no problem with anyone driving regardless.

Where do you want to take this??

"Traveling" thru your living room, to your fridge, then "traveling" into your nice comfy EZ-Chair?

This is a sovereignty enforcement issue.

Liberator  posted on  2012-02-25 19:41:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Artisan (#1)

I don't agree with the concept of "driver's licenses" at all. A certification of competency might be ok but a license implies that the state is allowing you to do something that you couldn't legally do without the blessings of the state. And it is demonstrably false that their little card makes anyone any better or that not having one makes anyone any worse "driver." Plus, it is a RIGHT to travel, not a privilege, and the most common means of exercising that right these days for most people is through the use of a car or motorcycle or a pickup truck.

James Deffenbach  posted on  2012-02-25 20:05:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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