Rudi Soto Rodriguez of Hixson is being prosecuted by state government because he drives his truck to work without a state-issued driver license. A court date is set May 1.
Neal Pinkston, state’s district attorney general
District attorney Neal Pinkston says he will enforce state law against private travelers in Hamilton County and appears to reject a fresh but contradictory view of Tennessee law, one suggesting that the law is much looser than courts claim.
By David Tulis / 92.7 NoogaRadio
Mr. Pinkston’s initial reply to my inquiries regarding a root-and-branch review of state law indicates he has not read the 20-page “transportation administrative notice.” He gives a boilerplate response.
“There is no constitutional ‘right to travel,” Mr. Pinkston says through spokeswoman Melydia Clewell. “There IS a constitutional right to freedom of movement between states,” but this freedom is “not the same thing as having a right to operate a motor vehicle.”
“Vehicle registration and drivers license requirements do not infringe upon any U.S. citizens’ individual right to move between the states.”
But appellate courts are at odds with state law and the right of free movement, which undergirds and enables many other rights secured by the constitution. The right of free assembly, the press and religion presuppose free travel within the state. Indeed, Mr. Pinkston and I agree: There is no “right to drive.” Driving is a regulable activity. But private travel by car is another matter entirely.
The transportation law reporting is undertaken as a form of racial reparation to end an evil burden of the white legal establishment upon African Americans and other categories of people. Immigrants, the poor, widows and orphans are routinely abused by cops on the roadways.
By enforcing traffic laws if as if they apply to everyone, the state stripmines the people to prosper its judicial-industrial complex. The state code’s Title 55 applies only to commercial for-profit users, but is used to harass, punish and penalize those with little means of resistance — private folk innocent of any crime, often jailed for months, unable to make bail.
My sanctuary city project notifies cops of the limits of existing law and much jurisprudence, and seeks to halt law enforcement against people not subject to the force of that law.
Sheriff Jim Hammond’s spokesman Matt Lea vows a response to my query about arrest practices. I also notified Chattanooga city council, disclosing the disparity between statute and court rulings on one hand and Mayor Andy Berke’s CPD arrest practices of blacks on the other.
Notice to Hammond: Reform required even though Haslam, judges, legislators opposed
Pinkston gets copy of administrative notice; will officers be notified?
Council urged protect poor, minorities, end police abuse of traffic law
Musty paper trail confirms highway law respects free travelers
Breast-feeding traffic stop: Ex-MP tells cop merely traveling, not in commerce
Authority ex nihilo; trooper agency seems to exert power apart from law
Neal Pinkson is correct; there are NO constitutional rights.
The Constitution is a prohibition and agreement by the pubic servants to conduct the business of the state accordingly. They take an oath to this effect. The Federalist papers fully describe (78 and 82) during the discussions for the government, why a bill of rights is not needed.
The anti-federalists would not sign unless they were incorporated — and now we see why.
Look at the words used by a lawyer very carefully. See what is not said, not what you want it to say. The words spoken are truth, yet appear to be contradictory.