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Patriot Act Bars US Woman From Driver's License
By Margaret Thomas, cmckennon@charter.net

January 13, 2005

The Driver's License Bureau told me today that they had merged with the Social Security Department this December, and that's why I can't get a driver's license. Social Security is federal and the Driver's License Bureau is state. How can they MERGE? Why wasn't this in the paper? I guess the "National ID Card" is here. I'm not an illegal alien or a terrorist, I was born right here in Georgia, and I've had a driver's license for 26 years without EVER getting a ticket.

[The states long ago gave up any rights/their own Constitutions and any protection to their citizens.......all in the name of MONEY!!! And your money at that.]

Evidently, the new Patriot Act law takes away a woman's right to drive unless she signs everything she owns over to her husband's name. I renewed my license last month, and received a letter last week saying my license was being canceled. I went in today with all my papers to see why, and they said that my maiden name is on my Social Security Card, (Margaret Thomas), and last time I got my license they put my maiden and married name on my license (Margaret Thomas Funk), so my names don't match.

I can't get a Driver's License in either name! I can't get it in my maiden name, because it doesn't match my old driver's license. I can't get it in my married name because it doesn't match my Social Security Card. I said "Well, what can I do to get a license?" He said "You can get a divorce. Bring your divorce papers in and we'll change it." (Chief Cox of Norcross, GA. said this, in front of witnesses.) ...

What are they going to take away next, our right to vote without our husband's permission? I called Rep. John Linder, and he said they had had quite a few calls from women about this. He said it's appearing to be a common problem, but it's a federal law and they don't know what they can do about it. As a matter of fact, I heard another woman arguing about the same thing while I was at the DMV today.... It's affecting every woman who wanted to keep her own identity. I guess we'd better start shopping for burkas. The Taliban wouldn't let women drive, either.

The Atlanta Journal is possibly doing a story on this. The reporter was interested, and I've called and written my state representatives and the ACLU. (Maybe they'll do something good for a change!) If many women affected by this, as I suspect, maybe we can start a class action suit. ....

I called the DMV, and they were quite snippy. They said it's a national, federal law, they're just enforcing it.... I said that this was discriminatory against women, and she said "Oh no, men have this problem too." ....

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I went to my state legislator's office to discuss this "connection" between the Social Secuity Number and the Driver's License, and was told that it is now being done in the name of the "War on Terrorism," and that government needed to identify everyone in the country by a Social Security Number. I probed a little more on this, and was immediately thrown out of the office. Bottom line, there is now created a new "crime," - that of driving without a Social Security Number.

Is it not stated in the Declaration of Independence that government derives its "just powers from the consent of the governed?" Where have the voice of the People been given a opportunity to address this matter? Like it or not, government is now forcing everyone, both small and great, to be numbered with a mandatory Social Security Number notwithstanding their conscience toward God.

"An he [the Beast] causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark ... that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the ... number..." Rev. 13:16, 17.

This issue is now being argued repeatedly in the courts across this country.

[ATG: Someone needs to remind these idiots that there is NO LAW stating that a woman has to accept her husband's name when she marries. (Heinz-Kerry just dropped the "Kerry" which she reportedly used only during the presidential race. ) Folks, you are the frogs in the governmental pond......and the water is just about at boil. Just because you are being hoodwinked into thinking these rules will protect you.....will find you in very, very hot water and 'dead' shortly. Even if you were to be issued your own private bodyguard there is absolutely NO WAY you will be secure in your being or your private information. Just keep up with the news of today.........if you can find the truth.]