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Another Vote For States Rights

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Gov signs law rejecting Real ID act
By The Associated Press

HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed a law Tuesday rejecting national driver's licenses for Montanans, saying the message to the federal government was "no, nope, no way, hell no."

The bill the governor signed rejected implementing the Real ID act in Montana, a federal law that sets a national standard for driver's licenses and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national databases.

Montana joined two other states, Idaho and Arkansas, in enacting laws that outright refuse to comply with the federal law, according to National Conference on State Legislatures. Washington's legislature has also passed a similar bill and Maine and Hawaii have passed resolutions opposing the Real ID act.

The law says that the federally approved identification cards eventually would be necessary to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. "We also don't think that bureaucrats in Washington D.C. ought to tell us that if we're going to get on a plane we have to carry their card, so when it's scanned through they know where you went, when you got there and when you came home," Schweitzer said.

"This is still a free country and there are no freer people than the people that we have in Montana."
 
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Montana Joins Idaho in Asking Congress to Block the North American Union by Withdrawing the U.S. from the Security and Prosperity Partnership

Today the Montana Senate passed, by a vote of 32 to 18, H.J.R. 25, a resolution urging "the President and the Congress of the United States to withdraw the United States from any further participation in the Security and Prosperity Partnership, any efforts to implement a trinational political, governmental entity among the United States, Canada, and Mexico, or any other efforts used to accomplish any form of a North American Union." The resolution also urged "the President and the Congress of the United States not to engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement Superhighway System."

Since the Montana House had already adopted H.J.R. 25 by a vote of 94 to 5, today's Senate vote means that Montana is the second state to pass an anti-NAU resolution in both houses. On March 22 Idaho was the first state to do this. Earlier this year the Utah House had also passed an anti-NAU resolution.

Congratulations to the members of The John Birch Society in Montana for making passage of the anti-NAU resolution possible.

At least 14 other states have already introduced resolutions against the North American Union/Security and Prosperity Partnership.
 
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