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
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Lemme guess... a Paulite nutter ?
Right on! I personally collect late 1800s horse and buggy plates. They are rare. Thank God we didn't just have folks going about their business back when. I mean hell, you can't have folks going about freely and all. It could be... dangerous or something. We need them tagged and herded. And taxed, mostly taxed...
“Driving isn’t a right, its a PRIVILEGE.”
“If this flies, remind me never to drive anywhere near Georgia with unlicensed, uninsured, and untaught morons behind the wheel.”
I think you are misinformed, while I question his plan, I like the way he is thinking.
And I think you are describing half the drivers in DC.
The Feds and States can comply and guarantee that right in a Constitutional manner by ensuring that state infrastructure does not BLOCK pedestrian or mounted travel.
However a citizen traveling may not violate OTHER traveling citizen's rights and the state may act to punish those violations.
I’m a raving nutter for freedom, but I’m almost willing to go along with drivers licenses to (eventually) stop those who drive drunk a lot, or who have no skills required to weild a one ton bit of steel traveling at high velocities.
So it this passes I guess that you won’t be able to use a drivers license as identification for anything including going to vote at the polls.
But then I don’t think that they need any photo ID to vote there now.
Was using a horse and buggy, or just riding a horse, a privilege? Did we have licenses for those? If the state forces you to pay taxes to support roads even when you don’t drive (which they do), then why would using those roads be considered a privilege? Furthermore, let’s say you own 1,000 acres of land and you build roads on that land, maybe even a paved race track. Why would you need a license from the government to drive a car on your own road? If the license were only for driving on government-funded roads, one might make a case, but licenses are for driving ANY motor vehicle, anywhere. What justification is there for that? And a cop can pull you over at any time, for whatever reason, and demand you produce your license, which has your full name, address, and a state-assigned number. How is that different from requiring papers to travel?
Please stay to the right when passing through, thanks.
It’s the “criminal illegal” thing that keeps me from supporting this
My guess is that he fools supporting this nonsense have HORRIBLE driving records.
More to the point: how can private insurance operate in a world where there are no drivers licenses by which to track tickets and accidents and DUIs?
I’m jazzed. I know of many blind folk who WISH they could get behind the wheel of a car. Their prayers have been answered.
sp have you ever driven in Florida or californa?
“And what proportion of illegal aliens are there?
Just wondering.”
Knowing nothing about this lawmaker or what part of Georgia he represents, my guess was he wants to throw a kink in Georgia’s requirement to show a picture ID when voting.
Yeah, and the “No, I don’t have insurance, good luck with your repairs, ta ta” thing.
Right. I thinks so. We are going to have to deconstruct 60 years of Progressive insanity. I wonder if the Congress can impeach the Lib judges for going against the constitution?
>>Driving isn’t a right, its a PRIVILEGE.
We live in a nation where mass transit is non-existent outside the big cities. Bike paths are dangerous and drivers are extremely hostile to bicyclists that are using the street. And now the housing market even prevents most people from selling their home and moving near their job.
Or do you support Soviet-style dormitories that are built next to your place of work?
In the big scheme of things, I’d work on the right to life before I’d tackle the right to drive.
‘Via the shoe-leather express.”
On what basis are you making that argument?
One of the biggest punitive frauds ever perpetrated by government besides property taxes is forcing the peasants to re-register their same vehicles over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....
And everyone just goes along with it....lol
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