Driving to the gym this morning and this Uhaul style small moving truck pulls up next to me. White male, late forties, short cropped hair, slightly overweight. The truck was all yellow but had "DEVL" painted on the side in graffiti style lettering.
Green light and his lane moves a little faster than mind so I think "Is that a business?" and check for the license plate. No license plate. "No license plate? Is that normal?"
He keeps going straight and I merge onto the freeway and it's just bugging me. Do I call 911 just in case? And say what? That I have a weird feeling? I live in a very religious area with very low crime where I'm sure cops are afraid to profile people and here I am asking myself if that's all I'm doing. I try to find a reasonable explanation why a man that age would be driving a truck like that with no plates and no business insignia aside from the letters "DEVL" painted on the side in teenager-vibe graffiti style and I just can't square it.
I get to the gym parking lot but I can't get out of the car I just kept thinking "What if?" I can feel the tug of war going on inside. Do I trust my instincts or explain them away? I look up "DEVL" and "DEVL moving trucks" online and don't see anything. So I think "What's the worst that will happen if I'm wrong and I report this guy? He gets pulled over there's a good explanation for why he doesn't have a plate and everything checks out and he thinks 'Hey, if I don't want to get pulled over maybe I shouldn't drive around in an unlicensed truck with the word "DEVL" on the side?
Eh. So I call. What the hell. The guy should expect this, right? If he wants to have an edgy truck that raises eyebrows, fine. Maybe he's a great guy. Then again, maybe he's a fucking kidnapper/trafficker, I don't know.
I read this book a while back titled "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals The Protect Us From Violence" by Gavin de Becker. He's supposedly an expert on the protection of public figures and has worked as a security adviser for three separate U.S. Presidents. He says that "Denial is a save now, pay later scheme." Thinking about that is what ultimately made me decide to call.
I don't know. Maybe it was nothing. But I don't feel like that often, and I can usually feel what other people are feeling. If I'm wrong, I maybe have just inconvenienced a perfectly innocent person for a few minutes. And maybe I waited too long to act on my hunch and I just let a serial killer get away. I don't know. Hopefully I did the right thing, and didn't wait too long. If it ever happens again, I don't think I'll hesitate so much.
Maybe he was just exercising his right to travel freely? There is no law that requires a man to have a license or license plate to conduct his private affairs.
question, when were your rights to travel freely taken and required your rights to travel be converted to require permission from a administrative agency? license?
Maybe in this great awakening people should read the 1935 Common Carriers act for their state. Read the preamble for their states Common Carriers Act and realize that there is no requirement to have the states permission to travel, conduct their private business, haul their own property and that of their neighbors produce to market even for a cash consideration. Your right to contract or not contract if you so choose.
You may find there is no requirement to have the States Plate on your property unless you are hauling passengers and freight for hire. Then the License is required, otherwise its a dead instrument. Think of it this way having the license plate, the Drivers license is a contact with government that if you so choose to haul passenger and freight as a common carrier you already have the proper instruments. In law the new car dealerships are called Common Carriers Dealers. they are giving your property, your cars birth certificate to the state to use a collateral to REFUND government and that there is a state act to recover your property MSO from the state and that you can claim it as private property.
Maybe people should read and understand the adoption of the roman civil law 1872 by two attorney brothers the Feilds who tricked the states legislatures into adopting the Roman civil law that allowed the attorneys to take over this countries law system ,Common Law by a colorable overlay that started the Licensing of hauling passenger and freight for hire in 1872. the horse drawn freight wagons that started the whole mess of requiring permission to haul passengers and freight hire and how it transferred from the freight wagons to the railroads then trucking then chuffers and taxi drivers.
See something say something. You do realize there is no such law that allows for a "routine traffic stop" It dose not exist in law in any state. all it says when the red light is turned on is YEILD RIGHT AWAY FOR THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ON A NON HOSPITOL RELATED EMERGENCY.
How many times have you heard the fuzz say failure to yield and the chase is on? Because of the Oath Of office, they can only pull you over if they witnessed damage to person or property or already have a valid warrant for your arrest. otherwise they are violating your rights under color of law and one option is to file a claim for damages on the agents bond. or take me to the magistrate 853.6 of the California Penal code. produce a injured party or a contract I violated with all the proper conditions of a valid contract, lawful consideration, two contracting parties, full disclosure, ect...
I find most comments on this post shocking, so much for the Great Awakening! so much for inherent rights, so much for freedom.
Driving is a privilege, not a right. Same for planes, trains and subways. They are paid, partially or in whole, by our taxes
Now, walk, bike or backpack. Absolutely. Knock yourself out. Go anywhere you want. But at 70-80mph on a road, you are exercising a privilege, not a right. As a fellow traveler I pay licensing fees, get safety inspections and carry insurance. I undergo periodic testing like everyone else.
Drive without plates, and you will pay the price
Then you have not bothered to research the issue. yes driving is a privilege hauling passenger and freight for hire. That is the problem, that is not how it is defend in law. I gave you the date of the acts, and tiltes, I've thoroughly researched it and have the original general law of California in my hot little hands. all you did was make a statement.
Yeah actually, while I still feel fine about calling the cops just to see if everything is square, the Supreme Court has ruled on many occasions that we have the freedom to travel, by car, on the public roads, without license or registration. They call it the Right of Locomotion. As long as you aren't using the roads as your business (truck driver, taxi/uber driver, food truck, etc.) then you are free to go to and from work and to anywhere you want at your leisure without license or registrations. The problem is that the local cops and judges don't know or don't care and they treat you like a nutcase when you point it out.
Then why does anyone license their vehicle, or get the Drivet’s license. I understand the Federal Govt having limited rights, but individual States have great leeway
Why does anybody pay federal income tax on their wages when SCOTUS has ruled so many times that wages are not income? Why did businesses close their doors just because unelected health officials said to? It's called acting under color of law. Nobody teaches you any better and you accept things without question. Since most everyone else does too, you just do what the crowd does.
I'm actually acutely aware of everything you're referring to here. I once passed out fliers on the right to locomotion and the supreme court cases on it at the DMV. I promise you, we're on the same page on that. I would normally not do or say or even think anything. In fact most of the time I would probably cheer someone on for sticking to the man in that way. And maybe I was wrong, but it was just a feeling I couldn't ignore.
Yep, I can relate to that, Hope you're having a good day! and thank you for replying.