October 8, 2007
Section: Editorial/Opinion
First in Fright?
Our state's Division of Motor Vehicles has been accused of lots of things over the years, but this one takes the cake.
Or the taco. A Canadian bacon taco.
What's up? Some people who should know better have concocted a curious theory tying together North Carolina's new driver's licenses and the logo of an obscure but legitimate agency called the Security and Prosperity Partnership (it encourages trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada).
As outlined by Bruce Siceloff, The N&O's Road Worrier columnist, a security hologram on new North Carolina licenses features a globe centered on North America. So, somewhat similarly, does the Security and Prosperity outfit's emblem.
Bingo. Case closed. New World Order, here we come! The sovereign United States of America is about to be subsumed in a North American Union. Can United Nations domination be far behind?
Set aside for a moment the irony -- we're being polite -- of die-hard opponents of illegal immigration criticizing the DMV just when it tightens its formerly relaxed ID standards. Forget that the hologram has a legitimate origin, coming straight from the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
Just consider one thing. If you turn the "C" in the hologram's "N.C." on its back to form a "U," and then move it in front of the "N"....