Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.
Posted on 01/31/2011 3:54:06 PM PST by dynachrome
ATLANTA -- 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.”
CBS Atlanta's Rebekka Schramm asked Franklin, “How are we going to keep up with who’s who and who’s on the roads and who’s not supposed to be on the roads?”
“That’s a great question," Franklin said. "And I would have to answer that with a question, ‘Why do you need to know who’s who?’”
“What about 12-14-year-olds who want to drive? What would stop them?" Schramm asked.
“Well, what’s stopping them now anyway?” Franklin answered.
Franklin’s name is on the first 21 bills of the legislative session, including one that would require the exclusive use of gold and silver as tender in payment of debts by or to the state, as required in the Georgia Constitution
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsatlanta.com ...
For some. For many, the first thing that keeps a drunk from driving is the threat of jail, and sometimes because that license was suspended from too many drunk driving infractions.
For those that do not heed even that, the first thing that keeps them from drunk driving is the inability to emerge from the small cell that they are confined to.
Sorry Charlie.
“Driving” is a commercial activity.
In most states, if not all, a “motor vehicle” is a conveyance used to transport people or materials FOR HIRE, that means FOR PROFIT.
The courts have rules the use of the roads is a right for ordinary traveling, but using them for profit is a regulated activity.
Sure Billy Bob could hop in a 747 if he happened to have one.
Prohibiting based on a conveyance is the same and prohibiting travel. Walking from Florida to Colorado is not practical.
If the same restrictions were placed on other rights everyone would be up in arms.
So you're saying that if I drive my own private vehicle on my own private property without any sort of license, I do so without a right to do so?
So you're saying all those folks who drove automobiles before the government got involved, to include Henry Ford and his first one, did so without a right to do so? Where did the privilege come from?
A drivers license doesn’t make a person a good or safe driver.
This is all about illegal aliens and voting.
Inability to ensure insurance does not bother you? How about those who simply do not have the requisite motor skills, or sensory acuity, to operate a vehicle safely?
It does weed out the blind and those who have no motor skills. It also weeds out the habitually drunk.
No, but buying a ticket on Greyhound or UAL is practical.
Nothing says your right of travel includes a right to sit in the driver’s seat.
Capisce?
I agree to a point, but I would like to know your brakes work. It makes me drive with more peace of mind, and often, with more pieces of my body.
If we could ensure safety inspections without registrations, that could work for me.
“No, but buying a ticket on Greyhound or UAL is practical.”
No, because you have to have a drivers license to travel on those.
“Nothing says your right of travel includes a right to sit in the driver’s seat.”
Really? Where does the govt have the authority to restrain freedom to assemble?
Take yoru ‘Capisce’ and stuff it.
“The last thing that keeps a drunk from driving is possession of a valid license. “
Nonsense.
The only thing that keeps a drunk from driving is lack of keys or what little self control they have remaining.
Did the Government tell you this?
Tell me, is it a privilege to build an addition onto your home? Digging a well? Cutting a tree? Flying an airplane? How about altering the motor on your own vehicle or carrying a gun?
Is everything the government controls and regulates a privilege for the peasants?
Clearly you have not driven anywhere near Atlanta lately. This is what is on the road now. This would just make it official. /semi sarcasm
You can show a state issued ID to get a ticket.
Barring that, purchase online.
Personally, I don’t want some unlicensed, uninsured, and unschooled driver sharing the road with me and risking the paint and bodywork of my Escalade.
Thank God I don’t have reason to drive in Georgia if this goofy law ever gets anywhere.
No, Da ‘Burgh during rush hour on these hills is quite enough.
You cannot board an airplane without showing a state issued ID card, kinda like what this guy is talking about eliminating.
A drivers license does little to ensure the safety of other cars or their ability to drive.
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