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Since September
11, 2001, all we've heard is 'terror, terror,
terror', 'security, security, security'. It's all a
fraud. It's a propaganda campaign to justify the
redesign of American institutions and society to accept a
borderless country (which is an oxymoron), privatization of
government (Fascist Federalism) and the filing of the U.S. Constitution in the
round file (trash).
What do I mean by 'Fascist Federalism'? I
mean that under the new paradigm of a borderless North
America, 'working groups' are making policy decisions that
are then passed to the Puppets in Congress to be enacted
into law. The working groups are comprised of
corporations, industry
associations and 'special interest' groups funded by
corporations and their associations. These working
groups form organizations that in effect become the
government for the purposes of setting policy, writing law,
and for administration of government programs. They
are one facet of the shadow government.
One such group is the 'American Association of Motor
Vehicle Administrators' (AAMVA).
About AAMVA
The American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators (AAMVA) is a tax-exempt, nonprofit
organization developing model programs in motor
vehicle administration, law enforcement and
highway safety. The association also serves as an
information clearinghouse in these areas, and acts
as the international spokesman for these
interests.
Founded in 1933, AAMVA represents the state and
provincial officials in the United States and
Canada who administer and enforce motor vehicle
laws. AAMVA’s programs encourage uniformity and
reciprocity among the states and provinces. The
association also serves as a liaison with other
levels of government and the private sector. Its
development and research activities provide
guidelines for more effective public service.
AAMVA’s membership includes associations,
organizations and businesses that share an
interest in the association’s goals.
AAMVA is the parent to one subsidiary, IRP, Inc.
AAMVA also has four regions incorporated under its
umbrella.
In the continuation of
research on the Real ID and the SAVE Act - both of which are
supposed to provide "security" to protect us from
"terrorism" and illegal immigration, it was discovered in the AAMVA history section,
that a North American Driver's License Agreement was
prepared in 1994 by the Driver License Joint Compact
Executive Board (whoever the hell they are .... which begins
to explain what fascist federalism is):
The Driver
License Joint Compact Executive Board (the Board)
began work on the DLA at the Compact Annual
Membership meeting in October 1996. Having
originated in concept with the 1994 establishment
of a North American Driver License Agreement (NADLA)
task force, the DLA emerged to become the Board’s
main focus. The Board sought at every opportunity
to gather input regarding elements necessary for
inclusion in a non-systems based agreement that
unified the existing Driver License Compact and
the Non-Resident Violator Compact.
A 1994 Compact Compliance Survey of members
indicated that no member jurisdiction was then in
full compliance with either Compact. The results
of a 1997 survey of members established the
primary components of the DLA. The DLA was
discussed at numerous AAMVA and Compact membership
meetings. AAMVA provides Secretariat services for
the Board, and an AAMVA Board Advisory attends
Compact meetings.
In September
1999, AAMVA secured federal funding for two
top-level administrators from each jurisdiction to
attend a DLA Administrator’s Forum. Based upon
discussions at the Forum, and written surveys
taken at the close of the meeting, four issues
were determined to need resolution within the DLA:
Another search turned up the minutes of a
1996 executive
board meeting of AAMVA and IRP, Inc. As stated above, IRP is a subsidiary of AAMVA.
- North American Driver License
Agreement (NADLA):
Calvin reported
on progress related to the development
of NADLA. Most of the initial
developmental work to date has been
funded through a NHTSA grant in the
amount of $150,000. NHTSA also is
working with the SOZA group to take a
look at the possibility of developing an
All Driver Pointer File. FHWA has
provided funding to develop the bridge
that links AAMVAnet with the
Interprovincial Record Exchange, which
is now complete and in the first phase
of testing.
Second Vice Chair Jay
Dulany suggested that the issue of
jurisdictional commitment from chief
administrators be further examined
before a decision is made to move
forward with NADLA, particularly in
light of the fact that several other
programs that were developed at great
expense are not being used by the
jurisdictions despite their prior
declarations of commitment. Staff will
seek additional input during regional
conferences and from the federal
government. At the August Board of
Directors meeting, the Board will
consider the information obtained and
determine how to proceed.
As an aside, notice also
the derivative profit-making opportunities for 'friends and
family':
Certification Program/Third Party Vendors: In
his March 26 memorandum to the Board, Senior
Director of Driver Services Mike Calvin reported
that, during the last several months, the
Certification Board had revised and restructured
the Certified Driver Examiner Program, including
the establishment of a Certified Third Party
Examiner (CTPE) component.
IRP stands for
International
Registration Plan, Inc.
1. What is IRP?
Answer: The
International Registration Plan is a registration
reciprocity agreement among states of the United
States and provinces of Canada providing for
payment of license fees on the basis of fleet
miles operated in various jurisdictions.
7. What's the
difference between a member of IRP and a
subscriber of IRP, Inc.?
Answer: An
IRP member is a jurisdiction that has been
voted into the Plan, pays annual dues and follows
the rules and requirements set forth in the Plan.
An IRP subscriber is a person or company who has
purchased the IRP package subscription. The
subscription benefits include receiving updates
via email and newsletters. Upon purchasing the
Plan subscription for $450.00 US you will receive:
- All
IRP, Inc. jurisdiction notifications
- The
IRP Newsline (a bi-weekly e-Newsletter)
- Access
to participate in the IRP Yahoo! Groups
- A
user ID and password for the Members
Only protected areas on the Web site
The answer to the first
question is obviously misleading. IRP is a private
corporation. Here are the bylaws of the corporations:
http://www.irponline.org/irp/DocumentDisplay.aspx?id={31B71898-2F8C-47FB-9D27-994FB120FF26}
What this means is that
states must become a member of IRP to participate in the
International Registration Plan - which is required by
federal law.
Intermodal Surface
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
SEC. 4008. PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL
REGISTRATION PLAN AND INTERNATIONAL FUEL TAX
AGREEMENT.
(a) Working Group.-Not later than 180 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary shall establish a working group
comprised of State and local government officials,
including representatives of the National
Governors' Association, the American Association
of Motor Vehicle Administrators, the National
Conference of State Legislatures, the Federation
of Tax Administrators, the Board of Directors for
the International Fuel Tax Agreement, and a
representative of the Regional Fuel Tax Agreement,
for the purpose of-
(1) proposing procedures for resolving disputes
among States participating in the International
Registration Plan and among States participating
in the International Fuel Tax Agreement including
designation of the Department of Transportation or
any other person for resolving such disputes; and
(2) providing technical assistance to States
participating or seeking to participate in the
Plan or in the Agreement.
Definitions:
(4) International
registration plan.-The term ``International
Registration Plan'' means the interstate agreement
for the apportionment of vehicle registration fees
paid by motor carriers, developed by the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
Here is an excerpt from the
FAQ section of the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
Dept:
http://www.flhsmv.gov/dmv/faqcarriers.html
What is the International
Registration Plan (IRP) and what are the requirements?
The International Registration Plan (IRP) is a reciprocal
agreement that authorizes the proportional registration
among the states of commercial motor vehicles. This means if
a truck is operated in multiple states, the owner must
annually report mileage driven in each state and taxes are
paid...
Here is the form for
International Registration.
http://www3.hsmv.state.fl.us/Intranet/dmv/Forms/BMCS/85900.pdf
Notice that it is filed
with a Florida Department of Motor Vehicles - making it
appear as if it will go to a government agency, but in fact,
it will be sent to IRP, the private subsidiary of AAMVA.
The organizational
structure described above is pure, unadulterated fascism.
SAVE Act and Worker Registration
What I set out to do this morning was to continue my
research on Worker Registration Programs because of an
intriguing paragraph in a letter written by K. Lehman of the
American Policy Institute, to the American Legion requesting
their support for opposition to the 'Secure America through
Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE), H.R. 4088.
The paragraph is as follows:
“Worker Registration Schemes (WRS) have been
utilized in the United Kingdom since May 1, 2004,
as a way to track and permit nationals of the
larger Economic Union (EU) and those from some
European Economic Area (EEA) trade area countries
to live and work in the
UK . Once these foreign nationals complete
12 months’ of uninterrupted employment they are
authorized to travel within the
UK , seek
permanent residence and claim basic benefits” (http://www.globalvisas.com/uk_immigration/worker_registration_scheme.html).
After
looking at that website, I did a search on ‘Worker
Registration” and “United Kingdom”. Lo and behold, the
worker register program is a mechanism to facilitate
population shifts that are resulting from the creation of
the European Union as “regional governing structure”. For
member EU countries, after registration and working
in-country for a year, the worker has the right to stay -
without re-registering.
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2004_04_29/uk/worker_registration_scheme.htm
The Home Office has announced details of the
Worker Registration Scheme applicable to
citizens from the eight Central and Eastern
European EU accession countries who wish to come
to the UK to work.
Citizens of these eight countries currently
working in the UK or intending to work in the UK
will need to register themselves with the Worker
Registration Team at the Home Office if they start
a new job in the UK on or after 1 May or if they
have been working illegally in the UK before 1
May.
Those individuals who do not have to register
include:
·
those who are self-employed
·
those who have been working legally in the UK
already in the same job that they will hold on 1
May
·
those who have leave to enter on the SAWS scheme
before 1 May and started working in the UK under
the SAWS scheme on or after 1 May
·
those who are providing services in the UK on
behalf of an employer who is not established in
the UK.
Individuals from the eight Central and Eastern
European accession countries will need to register
under this scheme within one month of starting a
new job. The application form should be completed
and sent along with a letter from the employer
confirming the employment, two passport
photographs, one's passport or national ID card
and payment of £50. Decisions will be made on most
applications within 24 hours of payment being
received.
Successful applicants will receive by post a
registration card and registration certificate (a
copy of which will also be sent to the employer).
If applicants stop working for the employer, the
registration card and certificate will become
invalid. If a new position is taken up, then a new
registration certificate should be applied for.
There is no fee for subsequent registration
certificates.
Once employees from these countries have worked in
the UK for at least 12 months, then a registration
card and certificate will no longer be required,
and employees will be able to apply for a
residence permit exercising their EU treaty
rights.
The
Worker Registration Scheme comes into effect
on 1 May 2004.
Ah
ha... guest worker program, application includes ID,
Picture, fee. Sound familiar?
Since I know that we have a puppet government that
simply follows “Simon Says” orders, I did a search
on eVerify and “registration” and found this
publication by an immigration law firm -
instructing Arizona employers on the new Arizona
law requiring verification of legal status.
Everify can be used only for new hires within
three business days of their start date. It is
improper to use Everify to screen individuals
prior to making an offer or to screen existing
employees. Also,
the program checks only employment eligibility. It
does not reflect a worker's immigration status.
It references the I-9 form so I
looked at that. Page 3, Number 5 lists passport
and a Canadian Driver’s license as acceptable
identification for Canadians working in the United
States. I was not aware that Canadians have open
access to our labor market.
Given
that we have the NAFTA agreement -North American Free Trade
Agreement, theoretically, Mexico should be given the same
rights and benefits under the agreement as Canada. The
problem obviously (as evidenced by the Matricula Consular
card debacle) was that Mexico did not have a modern driver's
license or identification database.
I found
this article on Wiki - which is what led me to the AAMVA
website and the discovery of the North American Driver's
License Agreement - that I couldn't find the text for
- but what I believe is encoded into law in the Real ID Act
of 2005. Real ID includes country code in the ID
number and that de facto indicates an international ID.
Original legislation contained one of the most
controversial elements which did not make it into
the final legislation that was signed into law. It
would have required states to sign a new compact
known as the
Driver License Agreement (DLA) as written by
the Joint Driver's License Compact/ Non-Resident
Violators Compact Executive Board with the support
of
AAMVA which would
have required states to give reciprocity to those
provinces and territories in
Canada and those
states in
Mexico that
joined the DLA and complied with its provisions.
As a part of the DLA, states would be required to
network their databases with these provinces,
territories and Mexican states. The databases that
are accessible would include sensitive information
such as Social Security numbers, home addresses
and other information. The foreign states and
provinces are not required to abide with the
Drivers Privacy
Protection Act (DPPA) and are free to
access and use the sensitive information as they
see fit.
I also found a 2005 House Floor speech by Ron Paul talking
about the Real ID legislation (side note: this is a
VERY important speech to read):
HR 418- A National ID Bill Masquerading as
Immigration Reform
"This bill
establishes a massive, centrally-coordinated
database of highly personal information about
American citizens: at a minimum their name, date
of birth, place of residence, Social Security
number, and physical and possibly other
characteristics. What is even more disturbing is
that, by
mandating that states participate in the “Drivers
License Agreement,” this bill creates a
massive database of sensitive information on
American citizens that will be
shared
with Canada and Mexico!
This bill
could have a chilling effect on the exercise of
our constitutionally guaranteed rights. It
re-defines "terrorism" in broad new terms that
could well include members of firearms rights and
anti-abortion groups, or other such groups as
determined by whoever is in power at the time.
There are no prohibitions against including such
information in the database as information about a
person’s exercise of First Amendment rights or
about a person’s appearance on a registry of
firearms owners.
This
legislation gives authority to the Secretary of
Homeland Security to expand required information
on driver’s licenses, potentially including such
biometric information as retina scans, finger
prints, DNA information, and even Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) radio tracking technology.
Including such technology as RFID would mean that
the federal government, as well as the governments
of Canada and Mexico, would know where Americans
are at all time of the day and night."
We also have the
2002
testimony of Betty Serian, Vice Chair of the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) - a
private organization - in a hearing on "Protecting the
integrity of driver's licenses". Excerpts from
the testimony:
Good Morning Senator Durbin and distinguished
Members of the Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management, Restructuring and the
District of Columbia. My name is Betty Serian and
I am the Deputy Secretary for the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation and First Vice Chair
of the Board of Directors for the American
Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA).
I also served as Chair of AAMVA’s Identification
Security Task Force. Thank you for the opportunity
to appear before you today to speak about
reforming the driver’s licensing process and
identification security.
As an international safety association, we have a
responsibility and obligation to do our part to
improve
public safety and national security throughout
North America. We believe this hearing will
generate much needed public discourse about the
critical public policy issue of reforming the
driver licensing process and identification
security.
Foreign Reciprocity
AAMVA finalized a foreign reciprocity
resource guide for its membership in
October 2001. This was a major
undertaking by AAMVA to compile
information on foreign driver’s license
documents, practices and procedures that
will enable our members to make more
informed decisions on entering into
bilateral agreements with foreign
countries. One of the key issues was how
to deal with foreign driver’s license
assessment and verification of the
person’s license. Topics contained in
the resource guide are Legal
Considerations; Model and Existing
Driver’s license Reciprocity Agreements;
Issues to Consider before entering into
a Reciprocity Agreement; Model and
Existing Enabling Legislation; Driver
Licensing Standards; and Foreign
Driver’s license Assessment and
Verification of Driver Status.
Since the
events of September 11, the need for a
federal-state partnership is even stronger. In
fact, AAMVA has found over 20 states have
introduced some form of legislation that
strengthens driver’s license procedures.
Unfortunately, this piecemeal approach only begets
more lack of uniformity. Some of the obstacles
that states face in attempting to implement more
secure measures are budget constraints, lack of
funding for initiatives, and state legislatures
not passing legislation for years. In order to
get the full participation of every state, we need
the federal government to create a partnership
with the states to improve the driver’s
license/identification process. Without federal
involvement, it will take the system many years to
change. We think time is of the essence.
As we all know, the Real ID Act of 2005 passed the House and
Senate and was signed into law.
On the
Idaho State website, a powerpoint presentation on the Real
ID was found. On page 3, there is an important note
regarding the Real ID:
http://www2.state.id.us/itrmc/council/minutes/2007/m070515/REAL-ID_slides.pdf
“With Real ID, a birth certificate or DHS
documents will be required to prove presence, even
for those that have previously been issued
driver’s licenses or identification cards.”
From a
systems point of view, what the above means is that they are
starting the Real ID file "fresh" - meaning that they aren't
converting over old social security files, state driver's
license files etc. (Note: that doesn't mean that the
file won't carry social security number, it means that it
won't be the primary key on the file - it will just be an
element). So in effect, the Real ID will in fact, be a
national ID, cradle-to-grave identification that
includes various forms of biometic identifiers.
So, if
it is already a right for Mexican workers to work in this
country under the NAFTA agreement and subsequent reciprocal
agreements - as it appears to be for Canadians, and under
the Real ID act, the rules for issuance of Real ID are for a
birth certificate or DHS documents to get a Real ID - even
for citizens, then what is eVerify really about?
To
verify something, the something must be provided. In
effect, the something that is provided by the eVerify
process is eRegistration information. With the
mandatory employer participation requirement, and the
requirement for Real ID, it is a worker registration system
- to let DHS know who you are, where you are so they can
decide whether or not they will approve you for work -
regardless of your legal status. So in this regard, it
is not a system that is to prevent illegal aliens from
working per se, it is a registration system for all workers.
Recently there was an
article in an Idaho newspaper about a Mexican consulate
opening in Boise Idaho.
There
are more than 40 Mexican consulates in
the country. Along with other services,
they help Mexican immigrants retrieve
vital documents such as birth and
marriage certificates from their native
country.
The Boise Consulate will enable Idaho
Mexican immigrants to get services
without having to travel to Salt Lake
City. But Hoffman said Sali’s office has
received calls from constituents
complaining about the new office. He
said many of the Mexican consulates are
established just to provide
identification cards, or matricula
consular, to illegal immigrants.
“Right
now what I see the most need (for) is
the passports because most people don’t
want to go” to Salt Lake City, Gonzalez
said.
Gonzalez is saying passports, but 5 will get you 10 that the
consulates - courtesy of the U.S. government, can now issue
ID's that are DHS, Real ID compliant. And if we look
back at the SAVE Act, Section 307 calls for a media campaign
in the Spanish speaking communities to let them know about
it. And
the net effect is that the American people are being
bamboozled once again by lying, cheating corporations
masquerading as government.
SEC. 307.
MEDIA CAMPAIGN.
(a) In General- The Secretary
of Labor and the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall
develop strategies to inform
the public of changes in
immigration policies created
by provisions in this
legislation.
(b) Notification of Changes to
Employment Verification
Process- The Secretary of
Labor shall employ, at his or
her discretion, a combination
of print, television,
internet, and radio media to
notify employers of changes to
the employment verification
process. These multilingual
media campaigns should be
targeted toward non-citizen
communities and those most
likely to employ non-citizens.
Announcements should encourage
compliance with new
legislation and should explain
penalties for noncompliance
with provisions within this
Act.
(c) Multilingual Media
Campaign- The Secretary of
Homeland Security shall also
develop a multilingual media
campaign explaining the extent
of this legislation, the
timelines therein, and the
penalties for noncompliance
with this Act. Announcements
should be targeted toward
undocumented aliens and should
emphasize--
(1) provisions in
this Act that
enhance border
security and
interior
enforcement;
(2) the benefits of
voluntary removal of
undocumented aliens;
(3) punishment for
apprehension and
forced removal of
undocumented aliens;
and
(4) legal methods of
reentering the
United States,
including temporary
work visas.
(d) Cooperation With Other
Governments- The Secretary of
Homeland Security shall make
all reasonable attempts to
cooperate with the Governments
of Mexico and the countries of
Central America in
implementing a media campaign
that raises awareness of the
issues in paragraph (2).
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