Sanford to announce decision on IDsBy Stephanie Harvin (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Mary Ann Chastain/AP South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford Gov. Mark Sanford will announce his decision on the pending REAL ID extension deadline at 11 a.m. Monday. REAL ID is the replacement for driver's licenses and identification cards mandated by Congress to increase security at the nation's airports and federal buildings. Sanford has until Monday to ask for the extension to the federal deadline to begin issuing the new cards, or state residents trying to catch a flight will need a passport or be required to go through a secondary screening process. Without the extension, current S.C. driver's licenses would no longer be considered valid identification to fly or enter federal buildings, beginning May 11. With the extension, the state has until Jan. 1, 2010, to start issuing the new cards. In 2005, Congress mandated that all states put new security measures in place for issuing new driver's licenses or identification cards, but South Carolina is one of about 30 states that have opposed it. But as of Friday, only South Carolina and Maine have not been granted extensions to the deadline for issuing the new cards. Sanford has argued that issuing the cards breaks the state's law that doesn't allow it to conform to the REAL ID standard. He also said it will increase costs and wait times at the Department of Motor Vehicles and be a burden on state residents by forcing them to bring more documents to renew a license. Lawmakers have urged Sanford to ask for the extension, which would give them more time to fight the implementation of the cards. The announcement will take place in the governor's office at the South Carolina Statehouse. |
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Posted by ForPnC on March 29, 2008 at 9:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Gov Sanford - Please don't let the twits in DC intimidate South Carolina. We don't need that mess here.
It's about time the states unite once again. This time against the federal government.
Posted by amylrod on March 29, 2008 at 9:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Jim Harper wrote an excellent commentary in yesterday's P&C. The title is, "Sanford should stand up to fed bullying over REAL IDs."
He writes, "States are sovereign entities, not administrative outposts of the national government.
Allowing the federal government to commandeer states blur lines of responsibility, requiring state officials to raise state taxes and make unpopular decision on behalf of federal officials who really should be accountable.."
He goes on to say, "Congress never even had a hearing to assess the costs, the complexities or the privacy consequences of the REAL ID Act."
Of course, if we don't comply they Dept of Homeland Security threatens our rights as American citizens to travel.
South Carolina was instrumental in starting the American Civil War when it called to secede from the Union.
Perhaps it is time to show the government that South Carolina is willing to secede from the state-federal relationship that unconstitutionally forces the states by blackmail to comply with their unlawful demands - A BLATANT ABUSE OF POWER!
Jim Harper is correct, too, when he says "the governor should sue the Dept of Homeland Security under the 10th Amendment. In standing up for the residents of SC, he has a good chance to restore constitutional principles for all states."
This was a well written article and I hope that Governor Sanford will not cave in to the powers that be by showing that the dividing line in the sand will not be crossed over by South Carolinians.
Posted by KnowAllSeeAll on March 29, 2008 at 11:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Get 'em Mark!! This is what we hired you for, so don't back down!!
I'm confused as to the statement, "30 states have refused to comply but only South Carolina and Maine have not been granted extensions to the dealine for issuing new cards." Does that mean the other 28 states that have refused to comply have filed for extensions and now intend to comply with Real ID? Maybe I'm just reading it wrong.
This is exactly why I'd like to ask our candidates for the office of President of the United States whether they support a 10th Amendment Commission to study ways that Capitol Hill and The White House overstep their bounds. If anyone is paying attention, they shouldn't have to struggle to find examples of such.
Posted by ForPnC on March 30, 2008 at 6:25 a.m. (Suggest removal)
And the next words everyone will hear at the airport are "Drop em to your ankles, spread your legs and bend over."
Our privacy is no longer private and I'm sick of it. Start profiling!
Fight them Gov Stanford - we don't need or want it here.
Posted by hoyce on March 30, 2008 at 11:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
So either way legal citizens have to pay 100 for a passport or the state (citizens in the end) pay for real ID's, but illegals still move about freely with fake id's if any at all? maybe i should ask them where i could get one to skirt the costs. they don't enfore the illegal law so why worry about getting caught? if i got caught what would they do?
Posted by ChrisPia on March 30, 2008 at 3:31 p.m. (Suggest removal)
THE CHATTANOOGA DECLARATION OF 2007
"The Chattanooga Declaration
Adopted at the Second North American Secessionist Convention, October 4, 2007, Chattanooga, Tennessee
We, the delegates of the secession movements represented at the Second North American Secessionist Convention, acknowledging our differences, yet agree on the following truths:
1. The deepest questions of human liberty and government facing our time go beyond right and left, and in fact have made the old left-right split meaningless and dead.
2. The privileges, monopolies, and powers that private corporations have won from government threaten everyone’s health, prosperity, and liberty, and have already killed American self-government by the people.
3. The power of corporations endangers liberty as much as government power, especially when they are combined as in the American Empire.
4. Liberty can only survive if political power is returned from faraway and self-interested centers to local communities and states.
5. The American Empire is no longer a nation or a republic, but has become a tyrant aggressive abroad and despotic at home.
6. The states of the American union are and of right ought to be, free and self-governing.
7. Without secession, liberty and self-government can never be sustained, and diversity among human societies can never survive.
Signed:
Mark A. Thomey, Franklin Sanders,
Thomas R. McBerry, Jr. Thomas Moore,
Eugene C. Case , Larry S. Kilgore,
Lynette Clark , Dexter O. Clark,
David Towery , Michael C. Tuggle,
Walter D. Kennedy, Robert Pritchett,
Cory Burnell , Thomas N. Naylor,
Kirkpatrick Sale , Michael Hill..."
TREASON??????
Posted by AMAZING on March 31, 2008 at 12:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Sanford: State won't comply with REAL ID
"Gov. Mark Sanford said today the state will not comply with the federal Department of Homeland Security's standards for state-issued driver's licenses and IDs. The decision means S.C. residents could be subjected to extra security screenings when boarding airplanes or entering federal buildings."
Governor Mark Sanford's Letter
http://media.thestate.com/smedia/2008/03...
DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE GOVERNOR, BY NON-COMPLIANCE WITH REAL ID WILL BE ATTRACTING CRIMINALS TO THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA!