ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Change in license law irks some Vt. officials

Suspended drivers find penalty eased

By Associated Press, 7/28/2003

BRATTLEBORO -- Some law enforcement officials are unhappy with a change in Vermont law that decriminalizes driving without a license.


The new law, which went into effect on July 1, stipulates that driving with a suspended license is only a civil offense, which can't be prosecuted in criminal court.

Exceptions include licenses suspended for criminal reasons, such as drunken driving or gross negligent operation.

''I'm not happy with it,'' said Windham County Sheriff Sheila Prue. ''It ties our hands with these people.''

''We're certainly not pleased with that kind of process,'' added Vermont State Police Lieutenant Jocelyn Stohl. ''I think, quite frankly, it gives us more work.''

Before the change, a person would be prosecuted in criminal court after being caught driving with a suspended license for the third time, said Windham County State's Attorney Dan Davis.

Such a charge included a maximum penalty of two years in prison, a $5,000 fine, or both.

Under the new law, however, a driver pulled over for a civil suspension, such as failure to pay fines, can only be ticketed again.

''They can drive with a suspended license indefinitely,'' said Davis. ''We won't be prosecuting them. They'll handle them in traffic court.''

The change was tacked on to a House measure while in committee.

The bill increased penalties for drug crimes. It also revised fines and community service sentences for convictions.

Davis's office handles about 2,000 cases a year, and incidents of people driving with a suspended license are a substantial portion.

''We did several hundred of these a year,'' said Davis. ''Most of the cases settle out at arraignment with a fine.''

As a result of the modification, Davis was forced to dismiss a number of cases, he said.

This story ran on page B2 of the Boston Globe on 7/28/2003.
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.

Editor's comment: Notice that women hold two chief law enforcement positions in Vermont, as in Isaiah 3:12, and they are really bitching about losing their usurped power! It appears sleeping Israel America is awakening, at least somewhat!

In America, the people are individually sovereign. The humans we allow to run the corporate government are our public servants, and can never be our masters. It is each citizen's right, duty & responsibility to see to it that our public servants do not usurp the strictly limited political power we have given them.

The people DO NOT possess any power to delegate to their representatives, to arbitrarily and capriciously compel ALL CITIZENS to first obtain a license prior to our using our PRIVATE PROPERTY (automobiles), on OUR OWN PUBLIC ROADS WE OWN, and therefore, cannot, and have not done so! Over the years, the usurpation has taken place through the public's general habit of blind obedience, based upon nothing but their vague and imprecise notions, and not the law! Now the political usurpers, like these police officials above, their prosecutor cohorts, and all other government prosecutor members of the private B.A.R. Associations, want to perpetuate the slavery and constructive fraud because it has become a very lucrative protection racket of legalized plunder & extortion for filthy lucre! It is also an integral, self-funding part of the communist manifesto, through which everyone is monitored, controlled & regulated.

In Missouri, the "motor vehicle drivers' license tax" is imposed under Article X, Section 4(a), Missouri Constitution, & Section 136.030, RSMo. This tax is imposed against ONLY "persons" who are "owners," "operators," or "drivers" of "motor vehicles." The Missouri State Legislature DID NOT create the "operator's" or "driver's license," & therefore it does not lawfully exist. It is merely a receipt, created by the Missouri Department of Revenue, showing evidence the aforesaid TAX was paid. The license provides no more safety than a good luck token in your pocket!

Space does not permit me to provide legal definitions of terms, but briefly, the TAX is imposed against ONLY a specific class of enumerated "persons" engaged in a specific class of enumerated privileged, occupational, business or commercial driving activities, in use of a specific class of things (vehicles), exclusively for profit or gain upon the public roadways, which roadways are owned by the people of Missouri, who comprise the State of Missouri, not to be confused with the peoples' renegade corporate government, styled as the "STATE OF MISSOURI."

The act of using an automobile on the public roads, is not a criminally prohibited act, as is murder, rape, or robbery; it is a civilly regulated act under TITLE XIX, Chapters 300-307, RSMo.. However, the corporate state government, through usurpers of the peoples' inherently held political power, are taking this civil matter, and using criminal process to invoke it against the people. When a government uses criminal process to impose a civil regulation against the people, it amounts to involuntary servitude or slavery, which is prohibited by the Laws of the Creator and the 13th Amendment, U.S. Constitution.