Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Phillips Stacey Campfield: Soft on Terrorism, Hard on Babies
Posted by Betsy Phillips on Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:16 PM
Stacey Campfield has introduced SB 0132, which denies birth certificates to babies whose parents aren't here legally.
Too bad for Campfield that President Bush back in 2004 passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. This was a sweeping change to federal law that came about in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and was designed to make it harder for terrorists to hide in our country.
The act, which implements many of the recommendations of the 9/11 committee, has a section 7211, which sets the minimum standards states must adhere to when issuing birth certificates. States (or local governments) must issue birth certificates to "an individual (regardless of where born) who is a citizen or national of the United States at birth," and those birth certificates must meet certain federal requirements.
Since we have the 14th Amendment, kids born here are U.S. citizens and Tennessee is required by federal law to issue them birth certificates. And why do those certificates have to meet certain standards? To make it harder for terrorists to forge their own.
But, hey, if Campfield thinks the feds are too hard on terrorists, that's good for Tennesseans to know, right?
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Why, oh why do these yokels insist on wasting time with legislation that would get swatted down by the courts within 10 minutes of being passed? It's all posturing, or idiocy, or both. I wish to heaven we could get a critical mass of legislators that had the tiniest speck of knowledge and sense. But as long as the people in the voting booths keep responding to red-meat attention-getting, we're stuck. *sigh*
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I'm thinking maybe we could just give Campfield all of the birth certificates and he could put a smiley face on the birth certificates of the babies he likes and a frowny face on the birth certificates he doesn't like and he would feel like he did his part to let people know which babies he thinks are wrong without putting us in a position of getting laughed out of court.
I think Campfield and rep. G.A. Hardaway need to get together to attack the endemic of undocumented exotic dancers! This is a grave, grave problem in the state of Tennessee, one that needs to be addressed quickly!
"I'm thinking maybe we could just give Campfield all of the birth certificates and he could put a smiley face on the birth certificates of the babies he likes and a frowny face on the birth certificates he doesn't like and he would feel like he did his part to let people know which babies he thinks are wrong without putting us in a position of getting laughed out of court."
That's easy, let's just save time by putting frowny faces on the ones with Latino surnames. That's all he would do anyways.
JA, don't blame TN voters for numb-nuts like Nacho Bizarro UNLESS and UNTIL we get verifiable voting systems in this state, something that NB and his fellow flying monkeys are hell-bent to prevent. After all, they know where their real "mandate" lies and it's in the unverifiable vote-counting code programmed into the slow and expensive voting machines by reich-wing Dominionists, code that no one (including our (s)election officials) are allowed to look at.
If the TNGOP/RICO party was so confident that most TN voters were supportive of them, they'd allow the TN Voter Confidence Act to be implemented. They won't. I don't wonder why.
As far as Campfield is concerned, I wish someone would notify the Knoxville turnip truck that dropped that veg-head onto our political scene to come back and pick up their awful offal.
