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Oh, and let me specify some of the red tape that one might go through in
order to try to help on this.
First, there are local codes if you own a single family dwelling. That
means single family housing. To have two families in the same house is a no
no. My adjacent neighbors, who just happen to be hispanic, for about 3
years had about 15 people living there. I don't know how, it's a smaller
house than mine. Ultimately the county split them up and I'm told it was
due to the number of cars registered there (and yes, there were a number of
cars there). Still, a specific number of bedrooms means a set number of
occupants (Montgomery County, Md) and all of the same family (I assume the
hispanics got away with all having the same last name, but maybe that could
be viewed as a racist observation).
What this means is that having a second family in a house designated as a
single family home is a problem. Locally this would need to be suspended in
order to be legal in Montgomer County, Md.
Secondly, with the passage of the Patriot Act, there are problems with
having a number of different named individuals having ID from the same
house, which is somewhat like what the county requirements are. The point
being that since there are sections of the Patriot Act that talk about
single identities, having two surnames in the same house would bring
suspicion upon that house, even were they legal, and it's also to dissuade
co-mingling of families, related or not.
Now it's a fact that there is a One ID portion of the Patriot Act (NOT the
National ID initiative) that says any individual may only have one
identification, and this goes towards one applying for an ID from Maryland
if they have and ID from Mississipi, for example. In order for them to get
an ID from Maryland they have to have an agency in Mississippi for Maryland
to send the ID back to. Now if they CAN do so, and then can return to
Mississippi in four months, there will have been no agency to receive the
returned ID, and they will not be allowed to turn in their Maryland ID for a
new Mississippi ID. Without the National ID database being in place for
Mississippi for a few months, it would kick back onto Maryland. And without
Maryland being able to check the National ID database with Mississippi,
there will be no new ID for the person displaced to Maryland. In other
words, we've hit the proverbial Catch-22. This also assumes that things
won't be back to normal in four months. And I have to say that nothing will
be the same as before last week in four months.
So the federal government, in it's efforts to fight terrorism, has made ANY
people displaced by a natural disaster subject to their "involuntery
incarceration" and subject solely to the federal government. People without
any states to call home. The people can't go anywhere that the federal
government doesn't allow, and they can't go outside of what the federal
government specifies as identifiable. Since they can't get new ID, and
their old ID isn't necessarily verifiable, all the people under federal
jurisdiction at this point are simply in limbo. How that turns out I don't
know. What it means unless certain laws and local codes are suspended for
the duration is questionable, but the federal government isn't going to give
up on the idea of One ID.
One of the last things I would want happening to my family because of the
federal government's stupid ideas is to have it subjected to federal
searches without warrants on unfounded suspicions just because I wanted to
help a family out of the problems they face. The possibility? Maybe small,
I don't know. But if only the federal government is in charge of SOME of
the people, then it's questionable what they could do, given what we know
the federal government is capable of doing.
If things change in the near term, I'll let you know. But unless I'm wrong,
these people are going to be in governmental limbo for a long time.
However, there's nothing in either local or state or federal laws that says
one can't have guests in their homes for however long they wish. They just
can't get new ID so they can get jobs without the ability to file taxes in
those states.
This is all my interpretation of the laws based on my conversations with
local and federal authorities and it would be nice to hear from a lawyer,
particularly one that has federal law as a background. I'd even accept
Judge Roberts' suggestions, and since he lives right over in Bethesda, maybe
I'll give him a call. But this is the best I can determine from what I've
run up against.
--
Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio
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"Jona Vark" <noemail@all.com> wrote in message
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> Now that Texas is requestiong help from other states ...
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> If Roger's offer is sincere I would have to agree with him at this point.
> People are going to Minn, Mass, etc..
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> Roger.. if your politics aren't in the right place your heart surely is.
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> I gave to the Red Cross.. I mentioned guests to my wife.. She reminded me
we
> have only 1 bathroom and most of the rest of the house under some sort of
> rennovation.. But I am certainly not adverse to making the same offer if I
> can figure out how to do it.
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