Kelleigh Nelson continues her story of the Tennesse Department of Motor vehicles tyrannical approach to handling bureaucracy. Australia could empathise with her frustration, your system is just as officious from what this monkey hears. Power corrupts: The quote Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely comes from the nineteenth-century English historian Lord Acton (1834–1902) in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton about how historians should judge the abuse of power by past rulers, especially popes. (And in 2024 traffic wardens it seems).

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

THE HELLISH NIGHTMARE OF DMV BUREAUCRACY

By Kelleigh Nelson

In any bureaucracy, there’s a natural tendency to let the system become an excuse for inaction. Chris Fussell

The minute you’re working with the government, you’re dealing with bureaucracy, you’re dealing with time lags, you’re dealing with rigidity, you’re dealing with a slow pace. Bob Simon

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.  Chris Chocola

In my previous article, The Authoritarian Tyranny of the DMV, I explained how difficult it has become for women who have changed their last names more than once to attain the new ID driver’s license in order to board an airplane or enter a federal building.

If you have been married and divorced, you must have documented proof of the divorce showing your previous name, and Lord help you if you’ve been divorced more than once and cannot even remember what year the divorce occurred.

And lucky for the men, they never change their surnames, except for JD Vance.  I wonder if the Republican candidate for Vice President has had to prove his name change to renew his license?  Highly doubtful.

Ultimately, if you cannot attain these records, even as an American citizen, you will one day not be allowed to fly.  Of course, it’s perfectly fine for millions of illegal aliens coming through our sieve of an open southern border to jump on a plane and be flown all over the USA to their new destinations without, mind you, even a birth certificate.  The government does issue them social security cards however. Wonder if that works for their driver’s licenses so they can then get a voter’s card.  Meanwhile, female American citizens who have had surname changes are put through the wringer in proving who they are, despite presenting your social security card and your birth certificate.

 Scream!

After my last go around with the local DMV, I called my representative’s office and spoke with a gal who had just gotten married and had been through the same thing.  She told me that every state now has different laws for attaining the new ID license.

How exciting!

I sent my Congressman, Tim Burchett, the original article on this nightmare debacle, and he was kind enough to call me at home.  I told him the whole story and asked him if he couldn’t please do something to make life less difficult in attaining the desired ID.

Needless to say, I thought I had the entire insanity cured when I found my old passport as I knew the passport could be used for the ID and would keep me from searching divorce records.  

I was wrong.

I didn’t need divorce records when I attained my passport in 2010; I only needed my birth certificate and social security card.  But lo and behold, now to renew my passport, I need proof of my divorce decree(s).  How lovely.  Here we are again.  

Can you imagine me calling the Chicago Cook County Clerk of Courts and telling them I don’t remember the date or even the year I was divorced but I need a copy of the decree and it was around such and such year.  As of 2022, there were only 5.109 million in that county.

So, here we are again in the same scenario as before.  Does any woman keep a copy of her divorce decree?  I mean really…you want to forget everything about the mistake and never dredge up the thought again.

But here we go again.  I am going to once again forward this article to Congressman Burchett and see if he can do anything to help me.  It’s not like I’m going to get on a plane tomorrow, but I have family all over the country and should anything happen to any of them, I would not be allowed to fly, even if the thought of getting on a plane with a DEI pilot scares the daylights out of me.  

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, my husband renewed my regular driver’s license via the web, but I’m still haggling with trying to renew my passport in order to go see the lovely people at the local DMV for that ever so special ID license.

Anyone get the picture that illegal aliens have more rights than American citizens?

It sure seems that way.

I’ll keep you posted as to whether I’m ever able to board a plane again, and God forbid enter a federal building.

Kelleigh Nelson has been researching the Christian right and their connections to the left, the new age, and cults since 1975. Formerly an executive producer for three different national radio talk show hosts, she was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of wonderful guests for her radio hosts. She has owned her own wholesale commercial bakery since 1990. Previously, Kelleigh was marketing communications and advertising manager for a fortune 100 company. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with high school classmate, Hillary Rodham, (Clinton) in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is well acquainted with Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention riots. Email: Proverbs133@bellsouth.net