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08-22-2006 | 07:37 PM

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R.S.B.

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RE: A question for R.S.B.

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ORIGINAL: Sylvan

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I am saying a cophas allot of other things to check ID ofvehicles for legality andcan check who owns that vehicle, if its inspected, and if its registered/insured.

So you are avoiding the point. The cop has no way of knowing whether or not the driver of the vehicle has a legitamate drivers license sofrom what you have saidI can only conclude that you support the idea that it's just fine for a police officer to stop you in order to acertain whether or not you possess a valid drivers license. How about if a cop can't be sure you are not making methanphetamine in your basement and decides on his own to checkthat out too. Using the same logic I guess that's o.k. too. Here's something that Paul Revere said with regard to thosewhowere too spineless to resist government edicts. "When the king's agent tells you to kiss his a$$, will you do it?"

All a Cop has to do, or for that matter all I have to do to find out if you have a drivers license in this state, is call in your vehicle registration which takes about a minute to get a response as to who owns the vehicle along with their address. Then with that information they can query everyone at that address to find out whom all has a driver’s license and if anyone is on suspension of their driving privileges.

All of that takes about two to four minute so they still have lots of time to pull you over. The State police can do all of that directly from their car computer (premier) system in minutes.

At this point that can’t be done with a hunting license. The only way to check a hunting license in this state is to take the license from the holder and physically examine it. If hunters are willing to fund the cost of the computerized systems we can probably get to where we can check to see if you are properly licensed as a hunter just about as easily. Though that still wouldn’t solve some of the other problems that would still require a license check it probably would cut down on a lot of license checks.

If you don’t think the police can and do conduct quite driver’s license check you are both very naïve and very mistaken. It happens all the time when they feel they have the need to know, they just don’t need to deal with you to get the information they needed to know about you.

Dick Bodenhorn
WCO, Elk County

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