Note to : Senator McCain (R) and Senator Kyl (R) and ALL AZ Congressional Representatives (R) and (D) to Congress:

“Arizona Governor Jan Brewer angrily demanded yesterday that the White House withdraw their report to the UN Human Rights Council that singled out Arizona’s law as a cause for concern about the American track record on human rights. Calling such a reference “downright offensive” in her letter to Hillary Clinton, Brewer also called the entire report “internationalism run amuck.”

 (Ed Morrissey: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/28/brewer-blasts-obama-over-submission-to-un-specifying-az-immigration-law/)

Every single citizen of Arizona has been smeared as racist, human rights abusers to the United Nations HRC by our current President, Barack Obama (D), through his appointee, Hillary Clinton (D) as Secretary of State. One cannot recall a single instance when a sovereign government has EVER issued a condemnation of its OWN people to the United Nations. The Obama Administration initiated the international smear by instructing the State Department through Hillary Clinton and her deputy to introduce Arizona as a human rights abuser to the Chinese a few months ago, “Brought it up early and often.” Not a peep from our elected representatives then, now Obama jacks this cynical campaign against Arizona to the United Nations.

This also follows a recent obnoxious scene when Nancy Pelosi (D) as Speaker of the House provided Congress as the venue for a pulpit and a tacit stamp of approval for Mexico’s President to spew falsehoods and outrageous complaints against lawful Arizona state governing , and Arizona’s people. Before the entire nation, the Democratic Party literally applauded the whines of a foreigner against American citizens. Before the entire nation, Arizona’s elected representatives have been mute.

Arizona apparently has no representation in the Senate or in the House of Representatives. The silence is inexcusable. Our elected representatives should be in 100% in unison regardless of political party in public, and in unrelenting condemnation, and in demanding accountability on the Senate and House floors to protest the complete abuse of our national governance against the state of Arizona and the American citizens of Arizona they were elected to represent.

It goes far beyond Republican or Democrat, to the national integrity of our country, yet the elected officials Arizona has sent to represent this state in Congress are silent. There is no Congressional mobilization of the Constitutional checks and balances to control this executive branch abuse, thanks to the abandonment by our legislators of their sworn duties to the PEOPLE.

Governor Jan Brewer is a Republican. Where are her fellow Republican elected officials standing with her as she rightly objects to this unheard of act of the government in Washington DC going to an international body to pressure a U.S. State to accept a radical, corrosive and extra-legal domestic political agenda? Senator McCain, where are you? Senator Kyl where are you? Are you (R) busy defending the PEOPLE or (R)INO busy enabling the Democrats by co-drafting amnesty for favored status of foreigners who’ve broken our laws, over lawful citizens?

This is not only a national disgrace, a complete travesty, but a terrible abrogation of national sovereignty. We sure don’t hear any murmurs of concern about this coordinated Democratic Party disgusting action against a fellow Republican elected official who currently represents this state.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has been considered a travesty of its own, usually stocked with the world’s worst human rights offenders on the planet: Cuba, with journalists starving to death in squalid Cuban jails, China which harvests organs from prisoners, Saudi Arabia which beheads religious apostates, amputates people’s hands for crimes like theft, and shelters slavery within its kingdom’s borders, all of which have prisoners who would literally give their right arms to be taken care of by Sheriff Joe Arpaio instead.   

It’s been a bad joke and just got worse. The committee members know very well Arizona is paradise compared to what they and scores of other countries routinely dish out to their citizens. Not a single other country would tolerate for a nanosecond ANY illegals entering their own nations, but many are happy to play along with the Obama Administration’s little political maneuvering stunt and condemn Arizona anyway, so this takes bad theatre down to a lower level of basement decrepitude.

What happens next?  Will Arizonans be  subject to arrest while innocently traveling abroad?  Not likely?  How preposterous is the fact that the “”problem of Arizona” is now on the UNHRC’s agenda?  It’s ridiculous, but there it is, thanks to Obama. By forcing this issue into the United Nations, all sorts of consequences are now possible.  Will the ultimate cynical ploy be realized by a gloating and gleeful White House?  Governor Jan Brewer indicted as Sudan’s Bashir was for “crimes against humanity”?  President  Bashir presided over Darfur atrocities, Brewer presides over …  SB1070, which the Obama Administration evidently is arguing is on some sort of bizarro par with Bashir’s Darfur policies.  Our POTUS is destroying the protections ALL American citizens are entitled to as stated in the Constitution.  Yet, our representatives are AWOL.  Instead of standing up for us all, they are hiding from us.

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

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Monday, August 9, 2010

Horne trying desperately to hide his pro-amnesty record

Resorts to suing Arpaio to try and shut down powerful television

Breaking news….we have just heard that liberal Republican Tom Horne has filed a complaint against Sheriff Joe Arpaio over this television ad we sent out earlier today to try and get it taken off the air. If you haven’t had a chance to watch it, do it now. Horne’s record on amnesty and other issues can be found at the website http://www.thetomhornetruth.com/ According to the site,

The East Valley Tribune reported on February 14, 2007 that Horne has a “plan” to grant American citizenship to illegal immigrants who meet certain educational requirements.  According to the Tribune, “Horne has a plan that would reward high school graduates with citizenship. All they would have to do is pass a test. “If there’s a standardized test that confirms it, that the student does well and learned, I would have no objection to that” Horne said.

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Real Conservative Rich Davis fights back!

press release

Last week Adam Driggs sent out a mail piece that was full of half-truths, distortions and even some outright lies, demonstrating that Driggs’ campaign is desperate and that Adam is no statesman.

When this race began, Driggs was the front-runner, leading in the polls.  Over the past few weeks that appears to have changed.   As a result, Driggs will likely continue his desperate attacks and mudslinging for the next two weeks.
 
On the positive side, since the Driggs attack piece, Davis has received an outpouring of support from people who were turned off by the dishonest campaigning.  It seems that people are disgusted by Driggs’ approach and it is backfiring against him, particularly amongst undecided voters.  In this political climate, people want to replace incumbents with new leadership and Driggs is reminding them why.

Here are some of Drigg’s falsehoods:

• One of Rich Davis’ most compelling qualities is the time he spent as an advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and later as the Director of Terrorism Prevention at The White House. Driggs tries to undercut this by quoting from an article that has nothing to do with Rich Davis and which hints that everyone at the Department of Homeland Security is some sort of unqualified political crony. Driggs ignored Davis’ senior position and ignored Davis’ promotion to The White House. There is something pathetic about a politician who mocks those who serve our nation in an effort to score cheap political points. Adam Driggs may not think too much of our national security, as his open-borders voting record will attest to, but as a husband and a father, he owes a real debt of gratitude to the men and women who serve our country and keep him and his family safe. Attacking that service is shameful.

• Driggs intentionally deceived people by implying, on one side of the mailer, that Rich Davis lives in Washington DC. He used a paperwork error (which has already been rectified) in the District of Columbia to try and create doubt in the minds of people about where Rich Davis lives. Of course, on the other side of the same mailer Driggs refers to Rich Davis’ Arizona home. And Rich Davis is on the ballot right here in Arizona, a fact that we’re sure Adam Driggs is fully aware of each and every day. So why lie and try to confuse voters? Driggs knows exactly where Rich Davis lives on one side of his mailer and is just playing dumb on the other.

• Driggs claims that Rich Davis made up his job as Chancellor and claims that it was a school of 80 students. The role and title of Chancellor was established by the school system’s Board of Trustees, and Driggs only used the population of the smallest school to create the false perception that Davis was embellishing his resume. The embellishment was Driggs’, because he ignored the other schools in the system.

• Driggs tries to portray Rich Davis as a Washington, D.C. insider and says that his Washington D.C. contributions show that Rich has no interest in representing Arizona. Rich Davis’ campaign finance reports show a measly eight contributions from Washington, D.C. By comparison, Driggs gets over 61% of his money from PACs, lobbyists, their families and associates. Most of Davis’ money comes from Arizona and he has not taken money from PACs or special interest groups. So if we believe Driggs that where your money comes from indicates who you are going to represent, then Rich Davis will be representing the people while Adam Driggs will be representing the lobbyists. Probably not the point Adam Driggs was hoping to make.

• Driggs attempts to minimize the work of ARTIS Research (one of Davis’ companies) because the statutory address on the corporate documents is Rich Davis’ home. ARTIS works to reduce violence emanating from conflict zones. ARTIS researchers, including Rich Davis, go into harm’s way to improve understanding about terrorism and insurgencies in an effort to save lives and reduce the threat of violent actors reaching the United States. ARTIS personnel includes some of the great minds in the world, like Lord John Alderdice, the man who led the IRA and Great Britain to the Good Friday Accords and Robert Axelrod, who is on the short list for a Nobel Prize for his work. ARTIS employs people in four states and has consultants in even more. So why paint a false picture based on a statutory address? Maybe Adam Driggs just doesn’t want us focusing on his record anymore?

Adam Driggs continues to try and take credit for SB1070 in spite of working against the bill so long and so hard that its author, Russell Pearce, endorsed Rich Davis for this race. Adam ignores his open-borders record and Rich Davis’ endorsement from Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He ignores his record on the budget because he has used the very same accounting gimmicks he campaigned against. Adam Driggs continues to reveal himself to be just another desperate politician trying to hang on to elected office in spite of his job performance.

So we have to tell the truth for him. To each of our friends and neighbors. Driggs and his buddies have a lot of money, and they’re going to keep on repeating their lies for the next two weeks. We have to continue to spread the truth and trust that God knows what is going on and that He will prepare people’s eyes and ears for what they need to see and hear.

Feel free to pass this along to your friends in the district and thank you for doing your part to elect real, honest leadership to the State Senate.

ABOUT RICH
• Rich Davis is a business man and owns two companies – ARTIS Research (a research company that studies human behavior and cognition in Conflict Zones) and Davis Energy. Previously his background includes:

• Director of Terrorism Prevention, The White House under George W. Bush
• Advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security
• Director of an educational development non-profit
• School Administrator and Teacher
• Education – M.A. Naval War College; M.P.A. Harvard University; M.A. Azusa Pacific University; and B.A. Hope International University.

Everyone is acting tough on illegal immigration now. Lots of people running for office are singing the praises of SB 1070 and some candidate are saying they would have voted for the new law.

Back in 2004, there was a voter initiative to prevent those living in Arizona illegally from receiving taxpayer funded public benefits. Senators Kyl and McCain both opposed the citizen’s initiative; known as Protect Arizona Now or Prop 200 (2004). Less well know are some of the members of the legislature who were OK with illegal aliens receiving public benefits. Read this document for a list of some of those opposed to Prop 200. Some of them are seeking promotions, want to return to the legislature, or are backing candidates running for the legislature. Here is a partial list.

Bill Konopnicki opposed Prop 200. He is trying to unseat Senator Sylvia Allen in LD 5. Sen. Allen is a strong conservative with an excellent record in the legislature.

John Nelson opposed Prop 200. He is trying to retain his LD 12 senate seat in the face of a strong challenge from the more conservative Clark Silver.

Pete Hershberger opposed Prop 200. He is not on the ballot this year but he is backing Wade McLean in the LD 26 house race. McLean thinks he might have voted for SB 1070 but quickly adds Arizona should have talked more with the federal government before passing 1070.

Marian McClure opposed Prop 200. She is challenging current LD 30 Senator Frank Antenori. Sen. Antenori has a strong conservative record from his first term, split between the house and senate.

Will the voters care about politicians who supported benefits for illegals? They should at least know the facts.

PHOENIX – Forty candidates running for state office in Arizona have promised their constituents that they will protect their individual rights. Incumbents and challengers from almost every county and legislative district also promised to vote only for budgets that are balanced and to reject policies that benefit just a handful of people or businesses.

“The Arizona Constitution opens with the plain language mandate that the purpose of government is to protect and maintain individual rights,” said Starlee Rhoades, vice president of external affairs at the Goldwater Institute. “The candidates who signed this pledge have publicly declared they will fulfill their primary duty to the constitution and the people of this state.”

In 2008, the Goldwater Institute asked candidates for elected office to sign a pledge to open the hidden recesses of government to public view. Over the past three years, the Arizona Legislature has passed laws requiring state and local governments to post their spending checkbooks online. The laws passed in recent sessions, drawn from Goldwater Institute recommendations, will make Arizona governments some of the most transparent in the nation.

The Institute’s new pledge encourages elected officials to focus on their core responsibility of protecting the individual rights of citizens and respecting the boundaries given to the government in the Arizona Constitution. On July 1, the Goldwater Institute asked every candidate for state or county office in Arizona who will appear on the ballot in the primary election to sign the Individual Rights Protection Pledge. Approximately 15 percent of all candidates running for governor, the Legislature and other state offices have signed the pledge so far.

Only a handful of candidates who have signed the pledge are incumbent officeholders. Ms. Rhoades said this reluctance to support the principles of the state constitution reflects what has happened in recent years at the state Capitol. “Many of our current elected representatives have shown they are unwilling to govern based on the principles in the Constitution, like balancing the budget without gimmicks and treating all taxpayers equally,” Ms. Rhoades said.

To read the Individual Rights Protection Pledge and see who signed it, go to: http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/individualrightspledge2010.

The Goldwater Institute is an independent government watchdog supported by people who are committed to expanding free enterprise and liberty.

A m e r i c a n  P o s t – G a z e t t e

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This past week, LD7 candidate, Heather Carter, was featured in the Arizona Republic’s “My Turn” section.

“What does the future hold for Arizona? I envision a vibrant economic community, where people are employed, businesses are thriving and children are well-educated. I want a safe Arizona with a secure national border.”

(NOTE: The Republic makes it pretty clear to candidates that they will not be editing or proof-reading any candidate statements. All “My Turn” articles are published as-is and it is up to the candidate to make sure they submit only their best work. Fair enough, since the Republic interns are busy writing the news for the next day…)

“I am running for office to do the job that needs to get done – create a plan for Arizona that enables us to balance the budget, set a course for the future and focus on strong schools, strong economy and a safe community. I think part of the problem at the capital is people lose sight of the core mission…”

Now, I’m not sure what subject Mrs. Carter taught our LD7 children in school, but she must have had at least one dictionary in her classroom… Or maybe not, since she doesn’t know the difference between, “capital: as in, financial capital” and “capitol: as in the buildings making up our state capitol which Mrs. Carter wishes to serve in”. Let’s just hope she’s never taught civics/government/economics or any of the reading/English classes available to our kids.

“…get caught up in special-interest agenda items that take time and energy away from what we should be doing…”

Wait a second. I remember reading something about this… Oh yeah: Heather Carter was endorsed by the liberal AEA Union. This liberal union has been responsible for threatening legislators, protesting on the capitol lawn, holding back the budget process, as well as encouraging teachers to push Prop 100 using our kids. We’d like to know if Heather Carter was following her union boss in the picket lines last Spring. Seems like the only way the AEA union would endorse a Republican is if they knew they had her in their special-interest pocket…

Let’s make sure we support real conservatives, this August and November. Not union lackeys.

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Tom Horne:  Financial Con Artist Banned For Life By Securities/Exchange Commission. Watch Stunning Video. The job of the Arizona Attorney General is to prosecute financial con artists, not to be one.  Yet, being a financial con man, ripping off investors and eventually going bankrupt is exactly why the Securities & Exchange Commission banned him . . . FOR LIFE. Horne admitted, throughout SEC documents to his lies, deceit and ultimately ripping off people just like you. But that’s not where the story ends.  As the Arizona Republic reported just this week, Horne continues to lie to Arizona, filing corporate records that hid his bankruptcy and past history in apparent violation of state law. (The story can be read here.) Click the photo below to watch him try to explain it: We shouldn’t be surprised.  After all, this is the same person that tried to auction off the Attorney General’s Office by pledging unprecedented access  to his biggest financial donors.  (The story can be read here.) And after over half a dozen speeding tickets in just 18 months, including one in a school zone, Horne arranged a sweetheart deal to avoid criminal charges in Scottsdale (The story can be read here.) And, after presiding over declining student achievement as Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction the Bush Administration accused Horne of engaging in a “complete sham” to boost test scores. Tom Horne:  a financial con artist before, a political con artist now.  For amnesty for illegal immigrants.  (Read the Horne Amnesty Plan here). For taxpayer funded abortions (HB #2708).  For infringements on the Second Amendment.  Against tax relief for seniors.  Against school choice.  Supported by virtually no one in Arizona law enforcement.  He’s no conservative. For more information on Tom Horne, please go to TheTomHorneTruth.com TheTomHorneTruth.com   Paid for by Thomas for AG

Despite protestations to the contrary from the law’s sponsor and others, this law turns the Arizona drivers license  (actually any state license) into a national id.

It’s a common misconception to believe that the national id must be a card or a chip.

National ID not a card or a chip, but is the data that the federal government has on you.  What the federal government has been attempting to do for many years, most notably under the Clinton administration, was to find a way to integrate all of the various data they have on American citizens into an easily searchable, easily sharable database and data exchange format.

SB1070 states

F. Except as provided in federal law, officials or agencies of this state and counties, cities, towns and other political subdivisions of this state may not be prohibited or in any way be restricted from sending, receiving or maintaining information relating to the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual or exchanging that information with any other federal, state or local governmental entity for the purposes of determining eligibiltiy for any … license and for the purposes of verifying any claim of residence or domicile.

This section removes ALL restrictions from the exchange of license data between any state agency and any federal agency.  This section applies to ANY PERSON.  This section includes ANY LICENSE.  Under this section ANY state agency may exchange ANY person’s license data with ANY federal agency without any restriction whatsoever.

This problem has nothing to do with what occurs at a police stop. It removes ALL restrictions from data exchange, including a full data dump, or including full back and forth real-time queryability, between any state license database and any or ALL federal agencies, beginning July 1, including the IRS or Homeland Security.

Protestations from the bill’s sponsor have included:  “That’s not what it says.”  “That’s not what it means.”  “It’s not in there.”

Yes, Mr. Pearce, but that’s what the law SAYS word for word, in black and white, in 8th grade level English, no lawyers required.

Other  protestations such as in this post include playing word games….

The fact that A.R.S. section 11-1051 allows for the sending, receiving, maintaining or exchanging of immigration status information with any federal, state or local agency does not in any way invoke the application of RIDA (REAL ID Act) in Arizona.

First, what does the REAL ID act have to do with it?   Nothing.  The REAL ID Act was a single federal program which attempted to force the state to turn over certain data to the feds.  This bill turns over the same data that the REAL ID Act mandated, but does so voluntarily by the state, having nothing to do with REAL ID, but having everything to do with national id once the federal government gets their hands on the data.  REAL ID here is completely irrelevant.

Second, what is “immigration status” relative to a citizens’ domicile?  Or how would you verify a citizen’s eligibility for a drivers license (or any license) via exchange of that citizen’s data with the federal government?  Why would you need to?  Where is the limitation to the term “immigration status” in the data exchange with the federal government in checking a citizen’s domicile information with the feds or a citizen’s eligibility for a driver’s license (or a business license, or a hunting license - ANY license, remember). Nowhere.  Why would the state need to do so relative to its citizens?  But that’s precisely what the law enables.

The county attorney’s office goes onto state:

Subsection F states four limiting “official purposes.” If a public agent or bureaucrat cannot demonstrate that he accessed a person’s information pursuant to subsections F’s official purposes

A bureaucrat accessing the person’ s information is not at question here.  Removal of all restrictions in sending law abiding citizen’s data to the federal government relevant to check the citizen’s domicile and/or eligibility for a license is.

Arizona law cannot dictate what the federal government does with law abiding citizen’s data once it is handed over to the feds.  The feds, of course, will promptly put the data into whatever database they want which accomplishes their longstanding goal to implement a national id system.

Again, national id is NOT a card. It is the unique identifiers such as your name, SSN, domicile and biometric data such as your digitial photo on file with the MVD, once turned over to the feds and put into their national id database.  Once the data is placed into the national id database, then your DL can be run against that national id database and is, VOILA, a national id.

Russell Pearce continues to protest stating that he’s against national ids and that this bill does not contain national id.

And, yet, he fails to address the matter of the data exchange of law abiding citizens’ license data with “any agency” of the federal government, including Janet Napolitano’s agency, who is dying to get her hands on this information, especially gun owners’ information.

The only time the exchange of citizens’ data has ever been addressed was in the opinion that Andrew Thomas’ office wrote, linked to above, which stated it’s not REAL ID.   So what?  REAL ID is not the only national id program.  PASS ID, BELIEVE ID, or just drivers’ license database dumps into the Homeland Security database all turn state drivers licenses into national ids…..

….but only if the state hands over the data.  Which SB1070 does, willingly, of all citizens.

Russell Pearce is quoted as saying, “If we don’t turn over all of our data to the federal government, then how will be know who is SUPPOSED to be here.”

Wait a second, Senator Pearce, I thought this bill was supposed to be about who is NOT supposed to be here.

Senator Pearce, if you’re telling the truth and are against national id, THEN FIX THE LAW and prohibit the exchange of law abiding citizens’ data with the federal government.

No patriot hands over the private data of law abiding citizens to the feds, such as you have done in SB1070.

Anyone who does betrays the hard work of conservative patriots who have been fighting national ids since before the Clinton administration and since.

Fix the law before July 1. Otherwise, welcome to the leftist globalist Clintonista agenda as implemented by the right.

Lastly, Ronald Reagan opposed national ids http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa237.html

Gun Owners of America oppose national ids because they state that once the federal government has your drivers license data, they have enough information to track gun purchases…

“Since I need a driver’s license to purchase a gun from a dealer, BATFE would finally have its long-coveted tool to impose gun control on targeted groups — particularly under a liberal anti-gun administration. If you believe in the Second Amendment, please vote against this anti-gun monstrosity.” http://seclists.org/politech/2005/Feb/0016.html

Not to mention the fact that from the federal side of the fence, they plan on using the SAME SYSTEM to enable AMNESTY.   We can’t have it both ways – to use secure ids to keep illegal aliens out and at the same time use secure ids to let them in.

Fix the law, Senator Pearce.

Several weeks ago, I posted about how the right, in its vigor to try to stem the problems of illegal immigration, is actually advancing the leftists agenda of national id and north american integration.

This installment is to provide more evidence of the same.

In a March 8, 2010 Wall Street Journal article, “ID Card for Workers is at Center of Immigration Plan”, you can see that it is the explicit intent of the leftists (such as Schumer), globalists and RINOs (such as Lindsay Graham) to force anyone applying for a job to present a national id to obtain one.

What do you think e-Verify is?  It’s a web front end sitting on top of the US Department of Homeland Security’s national id database which integrates data from the US Department of Labor, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, pretty much every department, but most importantly and worst of all, from the states.

Why do the feds need the state data on the states’ own citizens so badly?  Because otherwise, the feds to not have all of the data they need to track each legal citizen uniquely.  Why? Because in the past it’s been ILLEGAL to do so.  Not to mention the fact that there is absolutely no authority in the constitution for the federal government to track law abiding citzens, nor to expend sacred tax dollars on doing so.

How does the federal government get data from the states?  There are several ways, but here’s a summary of a few relevant ones….

1) 42USC666 (a)(13), implemented under the federal Deadbeat Dad’s law.  This federal statute required states to collect SSNs from all drivers’ license applicants and remit them to the federal government.  However, this information alone was still not enough to create a water  tight data tracking system for citizens (nor to obtain enough information on individuals to tie to legal gun purchases from dealers, but that’s another story.)

2) REAL ID. The REAL ID program was a federal mandate on the states to collect and remit certain information on their citzens in order for the federal government to complete building out their national id database.  The cost of compliance on states was very high.  Additionally, conservatives opposed this strongly on religious and political grounds and many states, such as Arizona, “opted out”.

3) A state voluntarily hands over the data.

This one is a tricky one.  For example, the state of Arizona, has always traditionally resisted handing over data from its law abiding citizens.  However, recently under SB1070, the anti-immigration law, SB1070 removes ALL RESTRICTIONS from sending and exchanging license data for ANY LICENSE for ANY PERSON (legal or illegal), with ANY AGENCY of the federal government.

SB1070 does not restrict the sending and exchange of law abiding Arizona citizens’ data with the feds to a police stop.  It removes ALL RESTRICTIONS and ALL PROHIBITIONS from the exchange of law abiding Arizona citizens’ license data with the federal government, beginning July 1.

That means any agency that has license data on Arizonans can send all or none, it can send the entire database of license data anytime it wants, beginning July 1, 2010.

You can rest assured that the federal government, especially Janet Napolitano and the US Department of Homeland Security, will amply incentivize the MVD and DPS to do so, so she can get her hands on the data she needs to track your gun purchases, among other things.

So, whereas Arizona opted out of the federal mandate program called “REAL ID” wherein the federal government attempted to pull data from Arizona to complete its national id database data on Arizona citizens, under SB1070, Arizona turns around and hands Janet Napolitano and G_d only knows who else, including the IRS, all data it has on you as a law abiding Arizona citizen.

Hmm… betcha didn’t know that was in the immigration law, did ya?

Read the bill - indeed.

So, how does that turn Arizona licenses into national ids?  Despite the cartoon picture at the top of this post, a national id is not a card, barcode, RFID chip, nor a magnetic strip.

It is the DATA the government has on you, such as your unique identifers, name, domicile, any biometric identifiers such as the digitized MVD photo on your license, which is also in your MVD data file.

So, if Arizona hands the data over to the feds and the feds promptly stick the data in their national id database and all of that data links directly to your drivers license, guess what?!?!?!?

VOILA…. your Arizona drivers license turns into something Clinton always pined for and dreamed of foisting on the country, A NATIONAL ID CARD!

The same card can and will be used to deny birth certificates for your children, unless you agree to a national id card check.

The same card can and will be used to deny you the ability to work, per the WSJ article above, to deny you work.  In other words, no citizen may work before the US Department of Homeland Security clears them to work (or doesn’t if you happen to be a political opponent.)

If you do not have your unique identifiers and national id on your mind or in your hand at all times,  you will be denied the ability to buy, sell, or engage legally in any commercial transaction, such as banking, buying/selling a home, opening a business (SB1070 does not exempt the exchange of business license data with the feds either.)

Conservatives have ALWAYS opposed national ids, since day 1 when FDR wanted them, in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan was vehemently opposed, in the 1990s the conservatives stopped every Clinton and democrat attempt at creating them.

Now, conservatives are supporting them.    Worse, it’s conservatives advancing the leftist globalist agenda, which has always been to number and catalog citizens as a form of control and……..

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PHOENIX – For the third year in a row, Arizona Capitol Times readers have selected the Goldwater Institute as the state’s “Best Capitol Watchdog.”

“It’s our job to keep government in check. Too many government actors think they can operate without boundaries and that the Constitution is just a tired slip of paper–and we’re here to set them straight,” said Darcy Olsen, president and CEO of the Goldwater Institute. “We appreciate the peoples’ trust and look forward to advancing liberty even more in the years to come.”

As the state’s premier government watchdog organization, the Goldwater Institute fulfills its role through policy research, courtroom challenges and in-depth investigations. Some of the Institute’s recent successes include:

· Protecting your right to choose the health care you need. The Institute helped craft the Health Care Freedom Act, which will appear on the 2010 general election ballot in Arizona and two other states. More than 40 other states are also considering a version of the Health Care Freedom Act or already have implemented it.

· Defending free speech. A Goldwater Institute lawsuit prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to block the use of “matching funds” for taxpayer-subsidized candidates, enforcing a lower court order that says the scheme violates the First Amendment rights of privately-funded candidates.

· Identifying effective education reforms. Two years ago the Goldwater Institute recommended the adoption of proven education reforms, including: ending the social promotion of third graders who can’t read, alternative teacher certification so non-teachers who are experts in their field can enter the profession, and evaluating schools by letter grades–A through F–rather than the former, misleading “performing” and “excelling” labels. Arizona lawmakers adopted these and other Goldwater Institute-inspired education reforms during this year’s session.

· Upholding the state constitution’s ban on business subsidies. A Goldwater Institute lawsuit objected to a nearly $100 million subsidy for the CityNorth shopping mall which led to a state Supreme Court ruling that forbids corporate welfare schemes in the future.

· Promoting government transparency. The Goldwater Institute has long led the call for a more transparent government. This year Arizona lawmakers adopted a Goldwater idea to make all state and local governments, as well as school districts, post their check registers online.

The Arizona Capitol Times’ “Best Capitol Watchdog” award was presented to the Goldwater Institute Tuesday night as part of its fourth annual “Best of the Capitol Awards.”

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Goldwater Institute News Release

PHOENIX – When several new education reforms become law in late July, Arizona legislators and other state officials must seize the opportunity to improve student learning, says a new report from the Goldwater Institute.

“During the 2010 session, the Legislature embraced some innovative ideas that already are improving student learning in other states,” said report author Matthew Ladner, Ph.D., Goldwater Institute vice president for research. “But this is the first step of a journey. Ultimately, the goal of these reforms is to change the culture of public schools so they focus on improved learning for every child, whether they are at the top of their class or the bottom.”

The report, “On the Road to Excellence: Next Steps to Match Florida’s Success in Educating Children,” says Arizona policymakers will have to resist the pressure to weaken these reforms during implementation. After a decade of reform, Florida’s fourth-grade students have improved their reading test scores by 20 points, which is the equivalent of moving up two entire grade levels.

The Arizona Department of Education now will have the chance to carry out similar reforms, such as providing clear descriptions of a school’s performance with letter grades of A, B, C, D, or F; requiring third graders to read before entering the fourth grade; and offering tests for career professionals to teach in public schools.

Dr. Ladner notes there are at least two additional Florida reforms that Arizona lawmakers should consider in 2011. To reduce the number of third-grade students who are held back, Florida has required extensive teacher retraining in the fundamentals of reading instruction. Dr. Ladner recommends that Arizona schools use existing teacher professional development funds to contract with private companies for affordable online training programs to equip teachers with more effective techniques.

Florida also has tied additional funding for schools to improved student performance. As one example, the report explains that Florida schools and teachers earn bonus money for each student who passes an advanced placement exam. Dr. Ladner recommends that funding for K-12 education in Arizona be linked directly to student achievement and sent directly to schools – bypassing bureaucratic school district offices – to improve the chances that the money actually will make it to classrooms.

Read “On the Road to Excellence: Next Steps to Match Florida’s Success in Educating Children” here.

The Goldwater Institute is an independent government watchdog supported by people who are committed to expanding free enterprise and liberty.