{"id":671,"date":"2004-02-22T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/terrorist_drivers_licenses\/"},"modified":"2004-02-22T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T18:53:50","slug":"terrorist_drivers_licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/terrorist_drivers_licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Driver&#8217;s Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-gop22feb22,1,4249345.story?coll=la-headlines-california\">Trouble in the ranks<\/a> at the California GOP convention:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But immigration was the issue of passion Saturday, and Kaloogian was the candidate capturing it at his rally with Tancredo in a crowded white tent outside the convention hotel near San Francisco Airport. Next to the stage, two boys wearing Kaloogian T-shirts carried posters reading, &#8220;No Terrorist Driver&#8217;s License.&#8221; The signs showed a driver&#8217;s license bearing a photo of Osama bin Laden. Tancredo, who flew in from Colorado for the rally, said that America had taken &#8220;rabid, overstated multiculturalism&#8221; too far.<br \/>\n&#8220;People are still coming across our borders with the intent to do terrible things to us,&#8221; he told the cheering crowd. He called Bush&#8217;s proposal &#8220;lousy, lousy policy.&#8221;<br \/>\nGloria Irwin, the Glenn County Republican Party chairwoman, said she agreed that Bush&#8217;s plan was &#8220;terrible.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are valid reasons for people to oppose immigration.  But this &#8220;terrorist driver&#8217;s license&#8221; bit is basically a scare tactic.  No U.S. terrorist has snuck into the country through the Mexican border.  They haven&#8217;t needed to; there&#8217;s easier ways to get in.<br \/>\nAnyway, it doesn&#8217;t look like the Bush immigrant work plan is going over so well among the faithful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/terrorist_drivers_licenses\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Terrorist Driver&#8217;s Licenses\"><p>Trouble in the ranks at the California GOP convention: But immigration was the issue of passion Saturday, and Kaloogian was the candidate capturing it at his rally with Tancredo in a crowded white tent outside the convention hotel near San Francisco Airport. Next to the stage, two boys wearing Kaloogian T-shirts carried posters reading, &#8220;No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}