Seems an incredible slap in the face, but its true.  8 of the 19 Hijackers had used phoney documents or loopholes in the state law to obtain drivers licenses, and under the Motor Voter act had also been allowed to register to vote.

Makes you feel real secure in our system, doesn’t it?  Because nowit is easier then ever before to do both.

Eight 9-11 Hijaacckers Were Registereed to Vote: Will MSM ‘Drive’ Story?

The fact has been out there for some time, but never garnered much media attention. Now, in the context of the current debate over the granting of driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, will there be renewed focus on this chilling reality? Could this be the factoid that changes a presidential election? As John Fund wrote in his Wall Street Journal column today and discussed during his “Morning Joe” appearance:

After 9/11, the Justice Department found that eight of the 19 hijackers were registered to vote.

View video of Fund’s “Morning Joe” appearance here.

And what made it so simple for them to register? As Fund explains:

[T]he National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as “Motor Voter,” that President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1993. It required all states to offer voter registration to anyone getting a driver’s license. One simply fills out a form and checks a box stating he is a citizen; he is then registered and in most states does not have to show any ID to vote.

The Fund column contains other mind-boggling details of the extent to which Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor whose drivers license plan Hillary Clinton supports, wanted to go:

Despite a tactical retreat this week–he says he will only give illegal immigrants a license that isn’t valid for airplane travel and entering federal buildings–Mr. Spitzer has taken active steps to obliterate any distinctions between licenses given to citizens and non-citizens.

It is a serious question and one I am admittedly bothered by.  Let me explain, but first I want to make it clear that I abhor Phelps and his protests at Soldiers funerals, and his entire anti gay campaign.

To be double clear, Phelps and his church are among the most vile extremists to ever call themselves Christians.  For those who are not in the loop, Phelps and his church are on a campaign against gay people.  In their infinite insanity, they decided that God hates gays, and there for anything bad in American is God punishing America for tolerating gays.  This includes the war in Iraq, so they put 2 and 2 together, split it 6 ways till Tuesday then multiply the result by the number reasons they think God hates fags, and they take to the streets.  Their goal?  Military funerals for soldiers killed in Iraq.

Now would someone tell me how it makes sense to protest a funeral of a dead straight Marine and claim that God hates fags, and that’s why the Marine died.

Needless to say no one really likes them much.  See what happened to them at one such event here.  In another of my blogs, Free Speech? Not at a friggin funeral, for crying out loud, I noted that:

I  am easily a huge believer in free speech, both in using it, and in defending others rights to use it in ways I find outrageous.   But there are a few types that push me to limits and make me want to slap the daylights out of the people.

One of those is taking advantage of an event like a funeral to make a political statement.  It kills me that people can disregard the feelings of grieving families and think they are morally justified in making their politics override good manners and sensitivity.  Someone died, show some respect.

The problem is, you cannot expect people to show respect when they think they can make a PR splash.  States have tried to ban them, only to have the bans challenged in court.

No, I do not think I am overstating the actual reality of the UD’s program.  It was an attempt to use the accusations of bigotry and racism to promote bigotry.

The program counted on the notion that whites continue to have a system designed to keep minorities suppress, and I just don’t buy it, not any more.

Sure once upon a time that is precisely how things were.  But Governments no longer restrict by Race, and if anything offer so many advantages to minorities that the playing field has become unbalance the opposite way in compensation.

And likewise, corporations are subject to constant scrutiny and litigation for even the appearance of racial injustice.

So a program that takes the sins of the past and attempts to present them as still just as bad of not worse, and ignores the advances made is useless.

In short, the way to combat racism is not to create even more racial distrust with over generalized accusations, coupled with standards that are not only fallacious, they are so slanted as to create racism out of whole cloth.

Well FIRE took the program public and the bloggers took the program viral, and now the University has shut it down.

Breaking: University of Delaware terminates its indoctrination program

Wow. The combination of FIRE + blogs proved to be too much for the University of Delaware.

Late Thursday, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker released on the school’s website a Message to the University of Delaware Community terminating the university’s ideological reeducation program, which FIRE condemned as an exercise in thought reform. He stated, “I have directed that the program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current framework will be conducted.” Harker also called for a “full and broad-based review” of the program’s practices and purposes. While concerns remain about the University of Delaware’s commitment to free expression, FIRE commends President Harker for his decision to immediately terminate the Orwellian residence life education program. FIRE will have more on this development tomorrow.