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symbioidljvia Wired:
"Members of the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License, an advocacy group founded after 9/11, provided almost all of the citizen support for the rules."
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Looking at this I wonder... Whenever I see a "coalition" like this, and when the news reports it as "citizen" I kind of wonder how much astroturf we're seeing. Well sure as shit...
According to Source Watch:
"PNAC Connection
"Both the President and the Executive Director of this group come from the Center for Security Policy, a neocon warmongering operation headed by Frank Gaffney. Gaffney is a founding member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and longtime associater of Prince of Darkness Richard Perle. PNAC, of course, issued a report calling for a 'new Pearl Harbor' in order to justify the conquest of the Arab world." [2] "
(admittedly the phraseology tips off the source here (that is... conspiracy blog), but the data itself seems legit... need to dig a bit more.)
The other interesting thing is "securelicense.org" seems to have expired. Wonder why...
EDIT: Surprise surprise, guess which goober is the "spokesperson" for this group? Bill O'Reilly
"The Coalition for a Secure Driver's License is spending about $50,000 each in North Carolina and New Mexico to lease the billboards, spokesman Bill O'Reilly says."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-13-billboard-outrage_x.htm
"Members of the Coalition for a Secure Driver's License, an advocacy group founded after 9/11, provided almost all of the citizen support for the rules."
---
Looking at this I wonder... Whenever I see a "coalition" like this, and when the news reports it as "citizen" I kind of wonder how much astroturf we're seeing. Well sure as shit...
According to Source Watch:
"PNAC Connection
"Both the President and the Executive Director of this group come from the Center for Security Policy, a neocon warmongering operation headed by Frank Gaffney. Gaffney is a founding member of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and longtime associater of Prince of Darkness Richard Perle. PNAC, of course, issued a report calling for a 'new Pearl Harbor' in order to justify the conquest of the Arab world." [2] "
(admittedly the phraseology tips off the source here (that is... conspiracy blog), but the data itself seems legit... need to dig a bit more.)
The other interesting thing is "securelicense.org" seems to have expired. Wonder why...
EDIT: Surprise surprise, guess which goober is the "spokesperson" for this group? Bill O'Reilly
"The Coalition for a Secure Driver's License is spending about $50,000 each in North Carolina and New Mexico to lease the billboards, spokesman Bill O'Reilly says."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-13-billboard-outrage_x.htm
