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Originally posted by 4thTimeLucky
In the UK you don't need to drive with a licence, you just need to produce it at a police station within 7 working days of it being requested. How does it work in the US?
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If you're stopped while driving, you have to produce your license on the spot. If you don't match the license or don't have one, you can be arrested.
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No I don't think they made any extra effort. What extra effort do they think they made (other than taking her to court!)?
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They offered a clean situation for her personal benefit: a room with only females who would take her picture with no men present. This twit turned them down. They didn't have to offer that.
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As article said, in 14 states you don't need a photo on the licence.
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Yes, and there are 50 states.
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What is the national security threat posed by not allowing her to use a different form of ID?
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Whatever form of id she uses, ultimately it's going to become a photo id, which will require a bare face. There is no escape.
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To me this is an issue of freedom and religious tolerance, not natuonal security.
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Not even close. They don't let Mormons marry multiple women. They won't let AmerIndians smoke peyote.
Those are tolerance issues. This is just some twit who doesn't want to comply with simple rules.
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Organised terrorists would (a) just follow the rules, blend in and not draw attention to themselves as she has, and (b) be well organised and funded enough to buy false driving licences if they needed them.
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It doesn't really have anything to do with terrorism. They shouldn't have mentioned that. What it has to do with is being able to positively identify a person. She not only has to allow her picture to be taken, but she also has to prove, during a traffic stop, that she's the person on the license. The only way she's ultimately going to do that is to show her face
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on the spot. She can't escape AND drive. She can escape OR drive. Period.
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And as for 'driving is a privilege'. What makes you think that in a country that is founded on extensive individual rights, the freedom of the individual and the limiting of the state.
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You're not dealing with the same reality we are. The federal government is God, and can do anything to us serfs. Didn't you know that?
They can steal our property (drug raid! eminent domain!), they can stop us on the street and take us to jail w/o actually charging us, and they HAVE. Recently.