Rights vs. Privilege -- Freedom or Slavery !!

Yesterday, Jan 24th, 2001, I received a phone call from my automobile insurance company sponsored by AAA of Oregon. It seems that the noose now choking the freedoms once enjoyed by a proud American People living under a now fading Constitution is tightening.

I have been informed that automobile insurance coverage for my two private automobiles will be cancelled effective Mar. 1st, 2001, a little more than a month from now.

Most of you have read my articles on Rights vs Privileges (located on my homepage, bulletin board and in the DejaNews Archives) and the growing assault upon our Inalienable Rights by our government and corporate leaders.

On my birthday, Sept 23rd, 1999, I allowed my Oregon Driver's License to expire and did not renew it. I WOKE UP!!!

I did not renew my contract for a driver's license with the State of Oregon. I wrote to the Oregon Governor, Attorney General, local county District Attorney, and Sheriff, posting such communications openly and publicly on these internet Newsgroups/Forums, announcing my intention to reclaim my Inalienable Right to Liberty; i.e., Right to Travel upon the public roadways. I did so as early as July of 1999.

When renewal time came for my insurance, I advised my insurance agent fully of my intentions to travel without a license. I instructed her to make such information known to the company leadership. My insurance was renewed without incident, and was renewed twice thereafter.

I had a single car accident (blinded on a curve by highbeams from an oncoming truck, I left wet/slick road, went down an embankment and met with a stubborn tree) on Nov 13th, 2000 which "totaled" my car. A Josephine County Sheriff's Sergeant arrived on the scene, took a report, drove me home, and never once asked to see a "drivers license."

My insurance company settled the claim routinely. I since have purchased a replacement automobile. I called my insurance agent from the car dealership to extend insurance to the newly purchased automobile. Again no incident.

It would seem that I have made a few waves and a few enemies with the government and Insurance industry by posting my articles regarding Rights vs Privilege issue on these newsgroups/forums.

The underwriter I spoke to on the phone could not answer why my insurance would be cancelled at a future date and was not cancelled immediately or, for that matter, anytime within the last 2 six-month renewal periods when no material changes were evident.

What happens when government officials and corporation leaders cooperate, one with the other in restricting freedoms of third parties, the American Public? What can be the expected outcome of such a conspiratorial freedom-destroying momentum? It certainly isn't hard to see, is it?

I am presently 63 years old. I have been licensed since the age of 16.

I, like many, many others oblivious to their Rights, was led to believe that travelling upon the public roadways in one's private automobile while not engaged in commercial activities/business was a Privilege, not a Right. The law, backed by the U.S. Constitution has in the past said otherwise; that is, of course, until NOW.

A subtle shift has occured in our society. Most are unaware of it. Maritime, bureaucratic regulation has replaced Constitutional Law. Our courts have moved away from the Constitution and now serve a Corporate master.

Now one must secure permission from the state for the "privilege" of traveling in the "usual conveyance of the day" In yesteryear it was horseback. Today it is the private automobile.
When a man's horse was stolen from him, his survival was threatened. The punishment for the horse thieves was sure and swift -- DEATH BY HANGING!

What should be the punishment for corporate enforcers/car thieves who confiscate another's automobile under the color of law because they are neither licensed nor insured? The *usual conveyance of the day* which enables travel has changed. The right to survival has not!

Such tyranny occurs slowly, incrementally, over a long period of time. It's all done through the schnookering (conditioning) of the public through the venue of contract law -- your signature on the dotted line. (Take that simple binding mechanism out of the relationship between yourself and the government, be it income tax, driving, and/or a multitude of Government services and tell me, where is tyranny to be found within our "civilized" society, short of the gun?) Through the simple medium of contract law, one relinquishes, signs away, his/her Inalienable Rights and in return receives the enslaving chains of Government "privilege."

At any rate, I long ago observed the fact that for most people, the security of Slavery is preferable to the uncertainty of personl Freedom.

THEY WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE!!

Raymond Karczewski