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Score One for the Good Guys... Ordinance 100 PASSES by Narrow Margin!

Dateline, Denver:

Illegal Drivers No Longer Allowed to Drive Illegally

I know, it sounds like a headline straight out of The Onion, but this is a true story.

This is also REALLY good news for us law-abiding Americans.

Let me give you a little background:

Here in Denver, we are cursed with "sanctuary city" status.  This means that, if illegal aliens successfully make it to Denver, they have very little chance of being deported.  They can access many types of American taxpayer funded social services, including free health care.  They can get free, special-needs education for their children, also cheerfully provided by the American People (perhaps not so much in the case of yours truly ;-), they can import the very worst parts of their failed society with them, such as chronic drug use, pedophelia, rampant alcoholism, and random violence...

...And they can drive.  Without the cumbersome burdens of a license or insurance. 

I know, driving may seem like an insignificant issue in the big picture that is illegal immigration, but illegals (and others) driving without any sort of license to do so undermine the entire transportation system.  People without a license have absolutely no business on the road, they are a hazard to themselves and others.

That may sound like "common sense" to you, but here in Sanctuary City things are a bit more complicated.  How could we be a Sanctuary City of we make the illegals take the bus?  Well, we don't...Or didn't, anyway.  We allowed illegals to drive around, without any formal training, putting the lives of Americans at risk every day.  Sure, police would still pull over illegals, but the process would go something like this:

-Police pull over an unlicensed driver.

-Police ticket driver for driving without a license, but still let him drive away after giving it to him.  Seriously.

-Court day comes, and the unlicensed driver fails to appear.  Contain your surprise.

Enter Initiated Ordinance 100.   Here's the actual wording of the initiative from the ballot:

Shall the voters of the City and County of Denver adopt an ordinance requiring that a motor vehicle operated by an unlicensed driver be impounded, and that releasing such vehicle shall require that the owner post a two-thousand five-hundred dollar bond to insure no licensed driver operates such vehicle for a period of one year and pay a one-hundred dollar impoundment land acquisition fee?

 

So what is wrong with that?  These people blow off court and keep on driving, so why don't we start enforcing this law?  Who, in their right mind, can defend the position that people without a driver's license should be allowed to drive? 

These were the questions I asked myself, as I went to my polling place yesterday.  I was absolutely certain that this ordinace would fail, but I wanted my voice heard on this one. 

The people who opposed it read like a who's who of the anti-America movement in Colorado.  LaRaza pumped a lot of money into getting out the "No" vote.  Chickenpooper and all his stooges were/are violently opposed to the enforcement of ANY laws on illegals.  Wanna guess how Ritter felt?  One Brown Supremecist in Government Office called the ordinace "nazi".  Given the hyper-liberal climate in Denver, I figured 100 had exactly zero chance.

Imagine my surprise when I heard that I.O. 100 had PASSED!  Yippeeee!  Go US!

Effective very soon, police will be required to impound the vehicles driven by illegal aliens, chronic DUI's, and the other assorted lawbreakers.  REQUIRED.  No more of this "here's your ticket, adios!" charade.  We, the tax-paying law-abiding LEGAL citizens of the United States of America, will take away your car if you drive it on our streets illegally.

I iknow, it's a small step, but it's a step nontheless.

 

Score One for the Good Guys.