Published: October 02, 2007 12:41 pm            

CONFER: Spitzer brings Sci-Fi to New York

One of the most-used tools of the science fiction and horror genres is the emphasis of the fear of the unknown, especially when it comes to knowing who or what you can trust. Using this theatrical standard like it’s going out of style, Hollywood likes to give alien invaders the ability to take over human bodies or change shape to mimic human features, allowing them to perfectly blend in with our society in their effort to take it over. By time the innocent characters of the movie find out it typically ends up being too late because what they thought was one of “us” ends up being some deviant alien who plays true to his criminal behavior.

It’s really a foolish premise. Things like that couldn’t happen in real life. For starters, no one knows if there are aliens and, secondly, if there were aliens, they couldn’t assimilate that easily into our environment.

Wait! Stop the presses!

Somehow, Albany has brought such science fiction to the real world. Like some b-grade movie director Governor Eliot Spitzer has given actual, honest-to-goodness aliens — the 20 million Hispanics who illegally call the USA “home” — the ability to become one of us. He is allowing them to apply for and receive without question a state driver’s licenses.

Sidestepping the tenets of our tri-cameral representative government the governor did not take into consideration the thoughts of the state Legislature or, most importantly, the concerns of our legal citizens when it came to this action. This was not a piece of legislation or a bill per se. Spitzer instead abused his power for the benefit of criminals (that’s what all illegal aliens are) and called upon a change to administrative policy at the Department of Motor Vehicles, demanding that the DMV drop the citizenship checks (social security numbers, birth certificates, state ID) that have always constituted sound policy.

By doing so, each and every illegal alien has been granted amnesty by the governor. They can now get their mitts on a card that gives them citizenship by association. To highlight this reality, the countless organizations that satisfy our nation’s security functions (the TSA, Border Patrol, and police to name a few) rely one primary form of identification, the drivers license. Up until now there was no reason to question the validity of the drivers license as the ultimate proof of a person’s legitimacy in our nation. Now, that semblance of security is a thing of the past…the aliens will not only sport the card, but the computerized check of that ID will be unable to declare this very important detail of the persons background. So, were an alien to be arrested for a crime or pulled over for an infraction he can now go about his merry way rather than being detained and sent back home for being the trespasser he is.

This severely flawed administrative action is bound to open the floodgates and make the state a stomping ground of Hispanic transients. Those hiding in the shadows on New York’s farms and urban areas will come out of the woodwork to get their hands on driver’s licenses. Their fellow lawbreakers from all across the United States will feel welcome here, traveling to New York en masse as a means to procure this cheapened citizenship.

Spitzer has transformed the whole of New York State into a sanctuary state, giving these invaders special privileges, an open door and a home. Looking at the big picture of things, he has indirectly done the same for every state in the Union. These vagrants will take their licenses with them throughout the US and every government agency and business they deal with will be unable to separate “them” from “us.”

Eliot Spitzer, once the champion for the reformation of Albany’s ills, has reformed our state — if not our nation — for the worse with one fell swoop. It’s almost surreal and preposterously pitiful how it was accomplished: Who would have thought in a million years that an elected official would base his decisions on what he saw on a drive-in movie screen? Spitzer has begged aliens to come here and has given them the sneaky ability to become one of us.

In this case, truth definitely is stranger than fiction.

Bob Confer is a Gasport resident and vice president of Confer Plastics Inc. in North Tonawanda. E-mail him at bobconfer@juno.com.

        

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