Thread: interesting article on r lost rights

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Partial Victory for Driving Rights in Ohio


January 22, 2008 – Why did America ever allow the government to take away the right to drive and convert that right into a privilege? Why did we ever accept the states’ demand that we enter into a contract with it, so that we could exercise our right to locomotion? As with so many other lost liberties in the United States, fear, factual or fancied, proved to be the peoples’ downfall. It is sad to report that we live in a nation whose majority has long been a fearful, lazy lot addicted to comfortable compliance with governmental intrusion and oppression.



These Americans willingly accept the states’ demand. They enjoy surrendering their freedom in exchange for a false sense of security, and are quick to scoff at any suggestion that their willful compliance with the state is deranged and unbecoming of an American. They maintain that a drivers’ license issued by the state keeps our public roadways safe and are therefore in the public interest and for the common good. Brainwashed with fears of non-compliance while consumed with an apathy that prevents them from fighting for their rights, the dumbfounded majority run away from the fact that driving is a right, not a privilege.




And so the government takes more, and more, and more. It suspends and revokes drivers’ licenses for non-compliance of a widening set of administrative statutes. Beyond not following the traffic rules, licenses are being suspended or revoked for failure to purchase and maintain a commercial product - insurance, failure to pay parking tickets, failure to pay child support, stealing gas, most any drug law violation; the list goes on and on.



Now the federal government wants in on the action too. They call it REAL ID. They say it is needed to keep America safe. Wait and see how long it takes to revoke your REAL ID compliant drivers’ license for failure to file a tax form or respond to a U.S. Census Bureau questionnaire, or join the military draft. America, you must wake up!



It is time to abolish drivers’ licenses completely. We the people do not need them! All they do is allow the government to sanction us to death. And what happens when the state suspends or revokes a drivers’ license? According to the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, 75 percent of suspended and revoked drivers continue to drive. Why? That’s simple. People that have their licenses suspended continue to drive because driving is far beyond a mere privilege. Driving is a common Right and a clear necessity. The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horse drawn carriage, wagon, or automobile, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but the common Right which he has under his Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.



There are approximately 210 million licensed drivers in the United States. At any given time, 10 to 15 percent of all licenses are under suspension. That means that 21 million to 31 million Americas have been denied their driving right by the state. With 75 percent of revoked and suspended drivers continuing to drive, the state has created 23.3 million people it hopes to further criminalize and tax. It is well past time to break the shackles that bind us to the state.



Nobody needs a drivers’ license to start his or her vehicle. We only need the keys. Responding to this fact, some states now confiscate vehicles from repeat offenders! Why do we tolerate this people? Enough is enough! End these laws now in your statehouse.



And then there are the financial responsibility laws. What a crime. The insurance lobby loves them of course. Anytime you can get a law passed that requires 210 million people to purchase your product, it’s called a jackpot! But only a jackass could think this is for the common good. It’s about greed, oppression, and suppression of objectors. When it comes to traveling on our highways, we need to change how people sue one another. We need to insure ourselves, and our property only. It should no longer matter whether another driver has insurance or not because the other drivers insurance would no longer pay for damages to somebody else’s’ vehicle – only his or her vehicle.



And this insurance should be optional – unless you have a bank loan. What shouldn’t be optional though is removing the state government from the equation. Insurance companies already sell “under insuredâ€

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Well, you don't need a license to ride a bicycle. But I agree, the Real ID sucks.

Well, it's good to hear that someone successfully stood up to those SOB's, but the government is right, driving is a priviledge. The thing is, driving is commercial activity and therefore is not a right. And motor vehicle also is used in commerce, mainly because no one really owns his car, because the State owns security interest in it.

Furthermore, FRN's don't really buy you anything because they're not real money, only pretended money, and using them makes the federal reserve and government a third party to each transaction, making you subject to their STATUTES,to which free men AREN'T SUBJECT TO.

In other words, buying a car with FRN's doesn't give you Right to property that people had when they still had real money. And without an absolute right to property, you can't claim your right to "drive", just like you have to follow the bank's rules when you bought a car on payments.

Hey, do I get an A for this exam?