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HelenaIR:

Gov. Brian Schweitzer said ‘‘no, nope, no way, hell no’’ Tuesday to national driver’s licenses, signing into law a bill supporters say is one of the strongest rejections made to date to the federal plan.

The move means the state won’t comply with the Real ID Act, a federal law that sets a national standard for driver’s licenses and requires states to link their record-keeping systems to national databases.

Though several states have either passed or are considering resolutions or bills against the act, Montana’s is the first state to outright deny its implementation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

‘‘This is the first one saying: ’we’re not doing it,’’’ said Scott Crichton of the Montana ACLU.

The law says that the federally approved identification cards eventually would be necessary to board airplanes or enter federal buildings.

‘‘We also don’t think that bureaucrats in Washington D.C. ought to tell us that if we’re going to get on a plane we have to carry their card, so when it’s scanned through they know where you went, when you got there and when you came home,’’ said Schweitzer, a Democrat.

‘‘This is still a free country and there are no freer people than the people that we have in Montana.’’

The Hunt For Red October:

Vasily: Then I will live in Montana, and I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck, or possibly even a recreational vehicle, and drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Ramius: Oh, yes.
Vasily: No papers?
Ramius: No papers. State to state.
Vasily: Well, then, in winter I will live in Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.
Ramius: Oh, at least.

Yet the wingers call us Stalinists...

ntodd