Letters to the Editor - February 6, 2010
The bastards in Washington and Tallahassee have finally succeeded in treating me and other patriotic, sacrificing, loyal American citizens as aliens, potential terrorists, right along side the Islamic butchers.
In order for me to renew my drivers license in Florida I must now show a certified birth certificate or passport; show a social security card or W-2 form; and 2 proofs of residential address; maybe more.
After living 72 years in the United States of America; serving in the US Army for over 34 years; awarded a Silver Star for combat action; simply showing my previous drivers license or my military ID card is not proof enough of who I am.
How about a Medal of Honor recipient? Will they have to go through the humiliating driver license renewal procedure and prove who they are and their loyalty?
We have an arrogant, lying, unknown, living in the White House serving as president of the United States, Commander in Chief of all United States Armed Forces who couldn't qualify under normal investigation for a "confidential security clearance", not to mention Top Secret Special Intelligence, and he thumbs his nose to security verification requests to prove who he is and whether or not he meets U.S. Constitutional requirements to serve.
I held Top Secret, Special Intelligence security clearance access for 30 years, was investigated every five years, finger printed more times than I remember, a combat veteran, and I must comply with absurd Florida/Home Land Security requirements for a drivers license that the Federal Government mandates, and our political, so-called servants of the people are too damn cowardly to challenge these bizarre regulations.
All this crap because we have representatives and senators in Tallahassee that have no backbone, knees of jelly, would bow in compliance with these idiotic regulations, pin-head requirements, federal over-reach, harassment of Florida citizens, rather than stand for State Sovereignty.
Sens. Gaetz, Peaden, Reps. Evers and Murzin and all the other senators and representives that serve Florida citizens in Tallahassee and across the nation allowed this to happen. Murzin and Evers have been in Tallahassee for eight years and they want more as a senator? Who in hell in their right mind would want these muddling misfits to continue trashing the U.S. Constitution and betraying Florida citizens?
Gutless leaders across America are willing to give a free pass to nations that support terror and would penalize American citizens with ridiculous, foolish, abusive security crap as a cover for their political betrayal. Rather than exercise courage and hold the enemy accountable, American citizens’ rights are taken disguised as security.
I say this, to hell with this ignorant crop of gutless legislators, we don't need them. And to hell with the new driver license requirements.
I'll walk before I'll be treated like one of the Islamic rag-heads, required to kneel before a tyrannical government bureaucracy simply because American leaders allow a few Islamic butchers to totally control American life.
Please excuse my vulgar approach.
I'm just madder than hell at what America has become. There must be a point when we say, that's it no more.
Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret
Crestview, Fla.
