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Title: Mainers petition at polls (Real ID)
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SeaCoastOnline.com
URL Source: http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/ ... S/806100389/-1/PUBLICRECORDS05
Published: Jun 10, 2008
Author: Deborah McDermott
Post Date: 2008-06-15 16:04:14 by Rotara
Keywords: Real ID, NAU
Views: 135
Comments: 10
Future voting is on the minds of a number of Mainers today, as volunteers for at least three statewide petition efforts will be at polls, seeking voter signatures on efforts to repeal Maine laws. Two of the efforts face a quick turnaround time — July 17 — to get more than 55,000 signatures just to be on the ballot for this coming November. The petitions seek to repeal the Real ID law passed last spring, and to repeal a law that will impose taxes on a variety of products to fund Dirigo Health. A third petition initiative will likely not go before voters until November 2009. It seeks to repeal the state's law protecting homosexuals from discrimination. Real ID Last spring, the state Legislature passed a law that adds to Maine's driver's license requirements to bring the state into closer compliance with the federal Real ID Act. The state was under pressure from the Bush administration to pass the law or face certain repercussions. Among them, the administration claimed, was that Mainers wouldn't be able to use their licenses to board airplanes. The law is an invasion of privacy as well as an unfunded mandate, said petition organizer and Democratic activist Kathleen McGee of Bowdoinham. McGee said Mainers will either be fingerprinted, have their retina scanned, or their faces scanned in order to get a license, and that the acquired information would be placed in a federal data base. "It's way over the top," she said. "It turns our legal basis of 'innocent until proven guilty' on its head." McGee's co-organizer is a Republican, and she said the effort has been attracting a broad spectrum of supporters, including libertarians, Green Party members, Ron Paul's We the People volunteers, and the Maine Civil Liberties Union. "I've done this kind of work my whole life," said McGee of being a political organizer, "and I've never see the passion and concern about one issue than I've on this."
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#1. To: Rotara, *North American Union* (#0)
Real ID is a nasty piece of legislation. Putting our state documents under an international umbrella with Canada and Mexico, not to mention the biometrics face recognition crap they are putting in it. This is not going to protect us from terrorists, just make it harder to hide from our own government.
You must be one of those "Domestic Terrorists" I hear so much about. ;-)
You must be one of those "Domestic Terrorists" I hear so much about. That's us.
You must be one of those "Domestic Terrorists" I hear so much about. That's us. I'm in the right place then. ~#^/
Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity - is that too much to ask? Evening cheers.
#10. To: lodwick (#9)
Evening cheers. Yes, it conflicts with world domination planned for and underway by the banksters. ;-) ¡Salud!
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#2. To: farmfriend (#1)
The state was under pressure from the Bush administration to pass the law or face certain repercussions. Among them, the administration claimed, was that Mainers wouldn't be able to use their licenses to board airplanes.
#5. To: Rotara (#2)
#6. To: farmfriend (#5)
This is not going to protect us from terrorists, just make it harder to hide from our own government.
#7. To: Rotara, farmfriend, DT's here (#6)
This is not going to protect us from terrorists, just make it harder to hide from our own government.
#8. To: lodwick (#7)
This is not going to protect us from terrorists, just make it harder to hide from our own government.
#9. To: Rotara (#8)
I'm in the right place then.
Replies to Comment # 9. Freedom, Peace, and Prosperity - is that too much to ask?
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