On Monday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tweeted a picture of a New York state commercial driver’s license his officers seized during an “enforcement action” on an interstate highway.
The name on this official state document, found on one of 125 illegal-immigrant drivers apprehended by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol: “No Name Given.”
No city or state suffered more on 9/11, but this single incident shows how even the Empire State has forgotten the lessons of that horrible day — and how New York’s solicitousness for illegal immigrants is setting America up for a tragic replay.
All but one of the 19 illegal aliens who carried out those attacks in 2001 had some type of US-issued identification document.
As Richard Barth, then assistant secretary for policy development at the Department of Homeland Security, told the Senate in March 2007, the terrorists found it easy to fraudulently obtain driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs.
Take Hani Hanjour, the Saudi national who hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and flew it into the Pentagon that morning, killing 184 innocents. He had IDs from three different states.
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The image that Stitt tweeted shows a purportedly REAL ID-compliant New York state CDL, identifiable by the star in its upper right-hand corner.
And yet that document was issued to “No Name Given.”
Perhaps the Given family decided to pull the cruelest possible prank on their newborn child and christened him “No Name.”
More likely, though, a New York Department of Motor Vehicles clerk issued what’s supposed to be among the most secure documents in our nation — an ID allowing the bearer to enter a nuclear facility — to an individual who failed to provide that most rudimentary identifier, a full legal name.
Worse is the fact that this is not a simple ID, but rather a commercial driver’s license.
The 9/11 hijackers had to overpower flight crews and steer massive aircraft at high rates of speed to commit their attacks.
Think of the carnage a malevolent trucker with the wrong cargo could wreak.
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[Read the rest at the New York Post]
[See also this related video featuring Andrew Arthur]