From: qut@netcom.com (Skip)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:51:23 +0800
To: stephen@iu.net (Stephen Cobb)
Subject: Re: AZ DMV: Citizenship to Drive? (fwd)
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> At 07:37 AM 8/20/96 -0400, you wrote:
> >Your papers, please?
> >
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 21:04:07 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: Bob Witanek <bwitanek@igc.apc.org>
> >To: Recipients of pol-abuse <pol-abuse@igc.apc.org>
> >Subject: AZ DMV: Citizenship to Drive?
> >
> >Posted: gdiazj@IMAP1.ASU.EDU
> >
> >Today the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles began requiring
> >proof of citizenship before issuing a drivers license or a state
> >identification. This policy was established by HB 2154 which passed
> >this last session (this one slipped passed me).
> >
> >I am helping organize people in Arizona to oppose this.  Please
> >send your information ASAP, we need you your help.
> >
> >VIVA LA RAZA
> >George Diaz, Jr.
> >gdiazj@imap1.asu.edu
> >GDIAZJ@aol.com
> >gdiaz@ci.phoenix.az.us
> >
> Not quite sure what this has to do with crypto, but here goes:
> 
> As with the recent federal legislation denying soc sec benefits to LEGAL
> aliens who are required by law to pay into the system and can by law be
> required to serve in the US armed forces, this appears to my untrained eye
> to be yet another case of isolationist paranoia...I am sure this one
> violates international agreements that the US has made concerning reciprocal
> accodomations as far as driving is concerned.
> 
> I used to be a tax-paying soc sec paying legal alien, but I got so fed up
> with head-in-the-dirt hicks who thought you had to be a citizen to breathe
> the prairie dust that I became a citizen for an easier life (and I mean some
> of these ignorant fools were sons of immigrants who voted agianst the US
> fighting Hitler!!!!). 
> 
> Because I still talk with something of a foreign accent I still get
> uneducated idiots, who couldn't pass the test they make foreigners take,
> lecturing me on what I cannot do because I am a foreigner. The only thing I
> can't do is run for President. 
> 
> I despair of backwater state legislators, I really do. What to do about this
> particular problem? Check out the rules on International drivers licenses. I
> know can drive on them for a year...If you are not allowed a drivers license
> because you are an alien, maybe you don't need their stinking licenses.

Absolutely correct, America is extremely hostile to anyone who isn't an 
impoverished white, ie, a redneck.  You be sure and tell all your friends
that, especially your African and Asian friends, advising them to stay 
away from the devil's continent as if their life depends on it.