Thread: In DMV hologram, sign of plot?

In DMV hologram, some see sign of plot

Bruce Siceloff, Staff Writer

Conspiracy theorists are sketching dark links between the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles and a supposed scheme to erase national borders, flood the land with illegal immigrants and create something called a North American Union.

The DMV connection is a silvery hologram on new driver's licenses. It features the image of a globe centered on -- aha! -- North America.

The story sounded farfetched when the Road Worrier first heard details several weeks ago in two telephone calls within minutes of each other.

It still sounds farfetched, but it isn't going away. Both the federal government and our own DMV have found it necessary to post denials on their Web sites.

North Carolina was stung a few years ago by conservative critics who charged that the DMV made it easy for illegal aliens to get phony driver's licenses. Now the DMV is pretty strict about its documentation requirements; not even a U.S. passport is accepted as sufficient proof of identity.

In December, North Carolina became the first state to start using the hologram, a security measure designed by a national group to fight identity fraud. It looks like a shimmery postage stamp. It has a serial number and images such as an automobile and a globe showing North and Central America, and other continents peeking over the horizon.

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, a nonprofit organization of government officials, created the hologram for eventual use nationwide. It is supposed to make it harder for illegal immigrants and criminals to fool authorities with counterfeit IDs.

"The idea was to have one common element that would be on every state's driver's license," said Marge Howell, a spokeswoman for the DMV. "It would enable people who use the license as an identification tool to more easily determine whether it is an official document."

At least, that's the official cover story.

A more dramatic interpretation starts with a supposed plot by President Bush and certain foreign leaders to basically merge the United States with Canada and Mexico. James R. Corsi, a conservative author, declared last year that Bush actually is "pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union."

It's the secret purpose, Corsi and others said, of a three-nation effort called the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, called the partnership "an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments."

The DMV connection was put forward in July. A staffer for Jim Guest, a Missouri state representative who was visiting North Carolina, and William Gheen of Raleigh, who has an organization called Americans for Legal Immigration (www.alipac.us), called the Road Worrier to talk about it.

Gheen described the North America image on the DMV's hologram as suspiciously similar to a logo on the Security and Prosperity Partnership Web site. He said the DMV holograms include radio frequency identification chips that can be used with secret tracking technology.

The global conspiracy story has been spreading since then on blogs and talk radio.

The DMV has posted an explanation of the hologram on www.ncdot.org/dmv/. The Security and Prosperity Partnership has a file called "SPP Myths vs. Facts" at www.spp.gov.

The DMV denies that its holograms include radio chips, and Gheen backed away from that contention Monday.

Gheen said he worries that the DMV is promoting digital face-recognition technology with its driver's licenses. This technology and the holograms will make it easier for authorities in Canada and Mexico to identify and track Americans, he said.

"It's my professional opinion that there is a plan in the works to forcibly integrate the economies of this continent," Gheen said. "The European nations got to vote on this, but we're not being asked to vote on it. It's being done without public knowledge or consent."


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When I got back home today after being away a week, there was a message on my machine (from last Tuesday) from Richard Burr's office in regards to an email I sent a few weeks ago about the new North Carolina driver's licenses with the North America hologram on back. I frequently (sometimes daily) email, call and fax Senator Burr's office about any number of issues. Most of the time I get no response- occasionally I get a standard letter weeks or months later. Never a phone call- especially one inviting me to return the call I missed.

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