Saturday, May 07, 2005

The Stupidity of Gil Cedillo

If you don’t live in Los Angeles, it’s nearly impossible to feel the pain that we go through on a daily basis. Since Cruz Bustamante, Noticias 62, Los Angeles Mayor Hahn, MeCHA, and various other pro-Mexico, pro-illegal immigration want to sell Los Angeles to Mexico for one dollar, or simply trade it for a bean and cheese burrito and a cup of horchata, who said we should stop there? Gil Cedillo has another great idea, this one almost as good as his last mighty brain cell explosion --- why in the world should the LAPD, already the most neutered police force in the nation, have the right to pull-over and impound the vehicle of illegal immigrants driving without licenses? According to Cedillo and his latest Senate Bill, they shouldn’t.

SB 591, as amended, Cedillo.  Impounding: vehicles.
Under
(1) Under existing law, whenever a
peace officer determines that a person was driving a vehicle while
that person’s driving privilege was suspended or revoked or without
ever having been issued a driver’s license, the peace officer is
authorized to either immediately arrest that person and cause the
removal and seizure of that vehicle or, if the vehicle is involved in
a traffic collision, cause the removal and seizure of the vehicle,
without the necessity of arresting the person. In either case, under
existing law, that vehicle is required to be impounded for 30 days,
subject to an earlier release to the registered owner under specified
circumstances and an earlier release to the legal owner under other
specified circumstances. Existing law requires the Department of
Motor Vehicles to require an applicant for an original driver’s
license or identification card to submit satisfactory proof that the
applicant’s presence in the United States is authorized under federal
law. This bill would authorize a city or county to adopt an
ordinance that imposes an impoundment period that is less than 30
days where the offense involves a person having never been issued a
driver’s license and would provide for the release of a vehicle at
the expiration of that period require a city or county
to exempt a person from the impound period where the offense
involves a person who has never been issued a driver’s license due to
an inability to meet the requirement that the applicant’s presence
in the United States is authorized under federal law . 
Because this bill would impose additional duties on local law
enforcement, this bill would create a state‑mandated local
program. 
(2)
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement. 
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.

The text that has been striken is current text of the vehicle code that Cedillo thinks is very unfair to the illegal immigrants (or to quote he and his posse, undocumented workers), who they believe should be able to live freely in the United States. Now, this is what Cedillo is doing: Although this looks like a slap in the face, which it is, it get’s even deeper. The logic and reasoning is actually quite creative, although any red-blooded American will likely go on a anger-driven rampage thoughout the neighborhood after reading this. Cedillo has been a long time proponent of illegal immigration. If he could have his way, the US would annex Mexico, and rename the entire West Coast an ultra-creative, neuera name, which insiders call Mexico. For the past few years, he’s been trying to get licenses for illegal immigrants, citing the fact that the Matricula Consular card that is issued by Mexico, and approved by the best-of-the-best left-wing socialists in the California government, is more than enough in terms of the identification required for illegals to apply for California drivers licenses. Meanwhile, as anyone in law enforcement will tell you, the Matricula Consular cards from the Mexican government look as if they’ve been printed on a inkjet printer from 1983, and can easily be duplicated by anyone who has access to Adobe Photoshop, a printer, some lamenation paper, and a Polaroid camera.

After his program --- and bill --- to allow for illegals to drive had been thrown-out more times than Ashley Simpson has faked her vocal skills at concerts, Cedillo needed a new way to allows for his beloved border hoppers to take the roads of California. This new bill would prevent the cops from pulling over and impounding the vehicles of illegal immigrants, due to the fact that it is not allowed by the California Vehicle Code (thereafter, if the bill actually passed, which is improbable at best.) So, in an effort to hog-tie lawmakers, they would be forced to allow illegals to get licenses, due to the fact that they would be untouchable otherwise. See how this works? You can’t pull over and impound the cars of illegals, due to the fact that the vehicle code specifies that someone must be licensed in order to do so, and the changing of the rules would make it impossible for illegals to get licensed unless they became citizens.

So once again, California socialists have come up with another backdoor bill that would give illegals more rights than the citizens of this country.

And in summary, Gil Cedillo is still by far one of the biggest idiots I’ve ever come across. Creative, smart, and persistant, but still an idiot.