A state lawmaker from Marietta is sponsoring a bill that seeks to do away with Georgia driver's licenses.
State Rep. Bobby Franklin, R-Marietta, has filed House Bill 7, calling it the "Right to Travel Act."In his bill, Franklin states, "Free people have a common law and constitutional right to travel on the roads and highways that are provided by their government for that purpose.
Licensing of drivers cannot be required of free people, because taking on the restrictions of a license requires the surrender of an inalienable right."Franklin told CBS Atlanta News that driver's licenses are a throw back to oppressive times.
“Agents of the state demanding your papers," he said. "We’re getting that way here.”
So, I'm assuming that Rep Franklin here will be resigning, because the logical endpoint of his argument (not everyone agrees with the rules in a democracy, ergo some people are being disenfranchised, ergo it's unconstitutional) is of course no government at all.
Tea Partiers are anarchists. They're opposed to governance, period. Because if they can't be in power all the time, they'll be damned sure to make it so that no one else will be able to govern.
Our way or scorched earth. Those are your choices, America.
No licenses? Then how are they supposed to keep all the black and brown people from voting? If you don't need a license to drive on the road, no need for a st. ID to walk down it either.
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, this is just the one guy. If it became law, I'd be worried.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying this isn't a bad sign. That any Republican can say this sort of thing and not be laughed out of office in his next term is not a great sign. And considering the general anti-Government attitude of many Tea parties and other related conservatives, I'm not sure how off the beaten path this is for their party.
So, I'm cautiously optimistic but with a tinge of unease. Mild showers expected, with a 60% chance of sunshine later in the week.
You think that's bad, check out his "Life, Liberty, and Property Restoration Act."
ReplyDelete90 (a) The committee shall meet subject to the call of the cochairman presiding that year for
91 the purpose of reviewing the entire Official Code of Georgia Annotated and all
92 departments, agencies, authorities, boards, and commissions to determine whether they
93 comply with the foundational principles of civil government articulated in the unanimous
94 Declaration of the thirteen united States of America and with the provisions of Code
95 Section 28-12-2.
The problem with a "strict reading of the constitution" is that the founders intended it to:
ReplyDelete1) Be the base of United States law, not the endpoint.
2) An organic document which changes as the needs of the people change.
If the Constitution was the endpoint of US law as well as an unchanging document in eternal statis, we would be going on about the founding morons who didn't realize that life would change in the US.
But hey, rolling back to the original version of the Constitution seems pretty good when you'd be one of the people on top of the totem pole, or at least relatively high. You'd get to lord it over those people too!
In other news, he's also looking for a law to make it legal for police to ask for your papers just in case you are an illegal immigrant. The police will of course have to follow both laws to the letter.
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