The only debate is whether that right extends to modern conveyances of the day, including the automobile, and whether that right extends to the use of the public thoroughfares.
Wolfteam, please bolt on whatever legalese and include my arguments in a BFF brief for submission to whatever interested Vermont state court. This needs to be done soon, as the clock is running out on the twenty-day deadline. Please convey my apologies for the delay. I am otherwise engaged in saving the republic and preventing nuclear armageddon. I do my best.
A natural right is a God-given right. It cannot be extinguished by any earthly event save the waiving of it by the possessor of it. The exercise of a natural right cannot be converted into a crime.
I do not concede that I am an operator or a driver, or that my personal conveyance, commonly known as a car or automobile, constitutes a motor vehicle. I will permit the state to demonstrate that those words of art apply to my situation, which is that of a natural person conducting his personal conveyance along the public thoroughfares in the peaceable enjoyment of his natural right to travel. That the state may string words of art together to create a simulacrum of that activity, and then to illegalize that simulacrum, in no way extinguishes my natural right to travel. I was here first, so to speak.
Does my natural right to travel extend to other modes of transport besides walking and riding a horse, those modes chucklingly proferred by agents of the state when they affirm my right to travel? Yes, and here is why:
We know that a natural right cannot be extinguished by any earthly event. If there were an equine virus that killed all the horses, would that earthly event extinguish my right to travel? Obviously not. Any jurist would then be obligated to recognize the sudden lack of horses and then begin to contemplate that the right to travel may extend to other modes of transport if the right is to continue to be exercised by the public.
Further, it is nigh theoretically impossible in these modern days to conduct one's business by horseback travel. There are no longer hitching posts on the street. There are no longer liveries for hire. And it is illegal to ride a horse on the higher-speed roads such as the interstate highways.
One cannot conduct his business by horseback in these modern times. No lawyer would thus argue that the right to travel is limited to those modes of travel made impracticable by advances in transportation technology, antiquated modes of travel such as walking and riding a horse. A right impracticably exercised is no right. My right cannot be extinguished by the state's attempt to limit its exercise to impracticable modes of transport.
Merely with the passage of time and its attendant advances in technology is there the inexorable pressure to sideline habitual modes of travel until the exercise of the right to travel by those habitual modes becomes impracticable and then impossible.
Therefore, the jurist must always be prepared to contemplate that the right to travel extends to modern conveyances. America's transport system is designed around the automobile. We have paved roads everywhere. Modern travel has the car in mind. Therefore, my right to travel extends to the car. I defy any lawyer in my audience to argue that it does not.
Yes, yes, the sky will fall if we permit a man to conduct a car on the highways without regulation. The world will end. These arguments, however, are not germane to the issue at hand, which is whether my right to travel extends to modern conveyances. I have demonstrated here that it does.
There. I have just proven that I do not require a driver's license to enjoy my natural right to travel, which right extends to the conducting of a car along the public thoroughfares in the pursuit of my private business.
Conclusion: I do not require a driver's license.
Issue two: One cannot get insurance without having a driver's license. The insurance companies have been bamboozled for decades about the necessity to be licensed, and now they refuse to sell insurance to an unlicensed "driver." I cannot comply with the state's demand that I possess insurance without waiving my right to travel by the act of taking a driver's license. The state cannot compel me to waive a right. Therefore, the state cannot compel me to get insurance. It is a legal impossibility without waiving my right, which I do not wish to do.
Issue three: One cannot receive a car inspection sticker without showing proof of insurance, which I cannot legally obtain without waiving my right to travel. Therefore, the state cannot compel me to obtain an inspection sticker.
Issue four: I may apply for, but cannot avoid the suspension of, a "vehicle" registration without valid insurance, which I cannot legally obtain without waiving my right to travel. Therefore, the state cannot compel me to register my car.
So. Since everyone is convinced that the sky will fall if a man stands on his rights, the state, under color of law, will pull me over and tow my car, the reasoning being that the state can simply make it too expensive for me to enjoy my right to travel. The state will simply harass me into waiving my right. Indeed, the last time my car got towed, back in early 2010, I said to the police officer, "The harassment never ends, does it," to which he smiled and immediately replied, "No it does not." (Of course, five milliseconds later he realized that he had just confessed to harassing me, opening himself up to a lawsuit. He was all smiles after that.)
I do not require a driver's license. I do not require insurance. I do not require a vehicle inspection sticker. I do not require a vehicle registration. The state cannot compel me to obtain any of those things without my first having waived my right to travel, which the state cannot compel. End of discussion.
Remove the State of Vermont from my existence.
Freedom isn't free. And it's messy. I'd like to see this nation finally live up to all the bumper sticker slogans about freedom and standin' tall and bein' Number One.
This is what freedom looks like. The days of lawlessness in this land are over. Get used to it.
Thank you.
