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Eric's Autos: Cornpone Tyranny in TN
Eric Peters
Now they'll be fingerprinting us for jaywalking. Or "speeding." Just
about any (formerly minor) traffic violation. Beginning in the
once-fine state of Tennessee. Southerners, it appears, are becoming
just as statist as the Yankee carpetbaggers they used to (rightly)
despise.
Two bills have made their way through the rancid colon of the TN House and Senate, HB2220 and SB2153, respectively, that would "... authorize(s) use of fingerprints as (a) form of acknowledgement, in lieu of, or in addition to, a person's signature for citations and certain other notices and documents." (See http://www.capitol.tn.gov and type in the bill numbers.)
In plain language, when you get pulled over or stopped by a cop for some trivial reason such as doing 5 mph over the limit in a Radar Trap Zone, the cop - at his discretion - may compel you, the offender, to submit to being fingerprinted "in lieu of, or in addition to" your signature on the summons.
Tennessee's tyranny is the first such action of its kind in these forcibly united States - and has aroused a popular groundswell of resentment and resistance. Understandably.
Fingerprinting starts with an "F" - because generally, the accepted practice has been that only felons, or those accused of committing felonies, get inked. Fingerprints go into a national criminal database, so that in the future it will be easier and simpler to track and identify the activities of felons. But jaywalkers, U-turn bandits and speeders?
Hell, under TN's new cornpone jackbootery, a person could be fingerprinted merely for spitting on the sidewalk, in violation of town ordinance Barney Fife 5, Section 3a. It would be humorous, maybe a little bit, if it weren't so obnoxious to common sense and civil liberties.
A particularly irritating aspect of this business is that the proposed law comes as a result, in part, of the tsunami of illegal alien squatters who have decamped in TN. These migrant workers are sans ID (or sans real ID) and often do things like drive drunk without insurance and wreck someone else's car. They then skip town and never show for court - leaving both the other car's owner and the state holding the proverbial bag for damages and so forth.
So, a pair of bright-bulb lawmakers decides that, rather than deal with the illegal alien squatters, let's hassle American citizens instead.
This is of a piece with the general trend: Americans - you know, real ones with U.S. birth certificates and citizenship and stuff like that - have to submit to body frisks, rifling of their possessions and questioning when traveling by air. They get randomly stopped at "checkpoints" when driving - even though they've done absolutely nothing to warrant being, in effect, temporarily detained and interrogated by an armed agent of the state. They must jump through hoops and dance and sing - and pay taxes, too.
But nothing is done about Pedro and Co. Me gusta! Si, se puede! Now ordinary Tennesseans will be fingerprinted like common criminals as well - just in time for the Fourth of July festivities. Ah, freedom.
This legislation may or may not be stopped. The governor may or may not sign it. All that is largely beside the point. What matters is that this kind of thing is becoming par for the course, routine and commonplace. A week does not go by, it seems, without some suit-and-tie-wearing Thug at a Distance (because others will do the eventual dirty work) proposing a new species of tyranny to be imposed on the human cattle - that is, on us.
The governor of TN will not be fingerprinted - just as Judge Sotomayor will not be disarmed (at least, her Praetorian Guard will not be). We will be fingerprinted and disarmed - in brief, put at the mercy of our Betters who run the show. If that is, we sit back and allow it.
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This news arrived on: 06/11/2009
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