Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Appeals Court Rules Drivers Can be Detained Indefinitely for Paying Tolls with Large Denomination Bills


Appeals Court Rules Drivers Can be Detained Indefinitely for Paying Tolls with Large Denomination Bills

By Madison Ruppert
theintelhub.com
September 24, 2012
In one of the more insane rulings recently – the appeals court decision to block the judge’s ruling on the unconstitutionality of the Obama administration’s indefinite detention notwithstanding – a federal appeals court ruled that motorists can, essentially, be held indefinitely at toll booths if they pay the toll with a large denomination bill.
The ruling (PDF courtesy of The Newspaper) came down in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, on September 19, 2012 in the case of Chandler v. FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation).
The chandler family, consisting of Joel Deborah and Robert Chandler, filed the lawsuit last year in which they argue that they were “effectively being held hostage by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and the private contractor in charge of the state’s toll road, Faneuil, Inc.”
The FDOT policies at the time dictated that any driver who paid with a $50 bill, or, as The Newspaper reports, “occasionally even $5 bills,” was not to be given permission to proceed until the toll collector completed a so-called “Bill Detection Report.”
These reports include data about the driver’s vehicle and details obtained from their driver’s license as well.
Obviously these reports completely nullify the privacy protection offered by opting to pay with cash instead of installing a “SunPass” transponder on their vehicle which records their travels for later retrieval.
Indeed, detailed papers have been written in an effort to preserve driver privacy when using these toll collection technologies in order “to resolve the tension between the desire for sophisticated road pricing schemes and drivers’ interest in maintaining the privacy of their driving patterns.”
“Many of those who chose to pay cash did so to avoid the privacy implications of installing a SunPass transponder that recorded their driving habits,” reports The Newspaper.
It is hardly surprising to learn that these same drivers who opted to use cash for privacy reasons were unwilling to provide their personal information to the toll collector.
The drivers were then essentially forced to give the toll collector their private information because the barrier in the toll booth would not be raised until the driver complied with the Bill Detection Report.
The drivers would then be in quite a pickle since FDOT policy does not allow anyone to exit the vehicle. Similarly, backing up is illegal and usually a physical impossibility due to the presence of other vehicles.
Thankfully, the FDOT reportedly dropped the Bill Detection Reports in 2010 but nothing is stopping them from reinstating it, especially after this supportive court decision.
The Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel determined that these clear detentions of motorists was not significant enough to be considered a constitutional violation, which is hardly surprising given that the U.S. Attorney General himself considers secret reviews of classified evidence due process.
When the judicial system’s top figures are this clearly warped and divorced from the reality of the impact of their unconstitutional decisions, I am in no way astounded to see lower courts acting in similarly insane ways.
“The fact that a person is not free to leave on his own terms at a given moment, however, does not, by itself, mean that the person has been ‘seized’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment,” wrote the court in their ruling.
“In Florida, a person’s right and liberty to use a highway is not absolute; it may be regulated in the public interest through reasonable and reasonably executed regulations,” they added.
This ruling is much more insidious than it seems at first glance since the court is not only saying you have no absolute right to use what was once public property, but they are also saying that a private corporation can set regulations for the use of the road.
“The judges found it was reasonable for Faneuil to set regulations for use of the road — including the types of acceptable payment,” The Newspaper reported.
The court ruled that drivers were beholden to the company’s seemingly arbitrary regulations since they implicitly agreed to them when they chose to use the toll road in the first place.
Florida seems to be on the forefront of toll road privatization with one completed, eleven underway and one underway which is shared with another state (according to a 2009 report).
While some private toll roads are constructed as such, others are privatized “through long-term highway lease agreements on existing highways,” according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund’s 2009 report linked above.
This factor was completely ignored by the court which chose to focus on the Chandlers and their supposed culpability for using bills with large denominations.
“The Chandlers have not alleged that they were forced to pay their tolls with large-denomination bills, thereby subjecting themselves to whatever delay was caused by completion of the Bill Detection Report,” the ruling stated.
“They chose to pay their toll with large-denomination bills. Nor have they alleged that they asked to withdraw the large report-triggering bill in favor of a smaller delay-free bill and were denied that opportunity.”
The court threw out the lawsuit entirely and in doing so established what, in my opinion, is a quite dangerous precedent.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They give you all kinds of clues.
But many won't get a clue.

If drivers can be detained indefinitely, who would want to be a driver?

The stubborness of the masses to belong to a group when there is no benefit, is amazing.

I stopped 'driving' commercially over a year ago.
The license I got from the corporate State of XXXX was a class C license. Good enough to drive an 18-wheeler if I wanted to.

I got tired of the contracts tied to that contract and so I let it go. I have a family and a job and I can still go from home to work to shop to school to church to home. How?
Because I know who I am and I know my power.

And there my be traveler's insurance, but there sure isn't a traveler's license.

They are giving all kinds of clues tell you to 'get out!', like that house told those people in the Poltergeist movie. But did they listen? No.

I cause no harm nor injury to anyone as I travel.
The system is telling you, they will cause you harm or injury if you are a driver.

If you stay, with that full disclosure, your acquiescence of making a change by keeping the license instead of turning it in, is your tacit agreement to the new terms that are being drawn up every day.

I wonder if ascension is more than saying 'I love everybody'. It may be you accepting the spiritual responsibility you have while here for your own path, and if you stay in a path of oppression, you don't ascend, but if you walk the way that The Christ Conscience tried to reveal, you ascend to a freer state of being.

There's a distortion to the ascension lesson.

I feel a window will open and the question will be asked, who is in the system but not of it? They know who we are...and we will ascend...the rest will stay and think it was all a false flag and lies.

Me and mine have dropped all the contracts we entered into that are oppressive, and we do not go places where for the privilege of travel they say they have the right to feel on us.

If it takes me a day to get there, I will travel by car, before I give up a creator-given right to a man in order to use his privilege to get there faster.

Be true to you...because when the time comes,it's going to be what you had decided that determines what you can have or have not.

Anonymous said...

The bottom line is, you never needed to apply nor have a license for anything at all.


It is you who keep these instruments, you relentless Clinton, Romney, crime supporters who will be fed to the FEMA camps or anywhere else they wish to put you and do with each what they will.


That also includes Clinton herself...
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/travel.htm

Everyone else who learned these instruments are tools for enslavement, will be free and will never be bothered again.
The choice is up to you, but I warn you all of these; especially the birth certificate itself, are why the New World Order has any power.

You can say well it doesn't matter, it doesn't apply to me but you'd be wrong....if you belong to the Bank known as D.C. it applies to you. Not a single one of you Zionist meritocracy slaves will be able to escape, the Bible itself confirms that!

Anonymous said...

Harsh, but I agree. This is anonymous 9:15AM again.
Holding on to the right to hold on to the contract is what will force you into the performance of the obligations thereof.
Being of legal age to know and make a decision, and choosing to sit still and wait to see what happens will still be your choice.
Wheat and chaff separation can happen in many ways.
This could be a time for those men and women who can walk the talk and be independent of the controls of the system, to walk freely. (ie. The Matrix opens up and lets us go about with our assets like the prodigal son if you like to envision it that way), and maybe some will blow it and end up right back in the system because they weren't ready to be free, but that was not the only prodigal son that wanted to leave the nest to experience life.
Those you consider elite and in charge could have the history of knowing that this window opens up every so many years. Their ancestors may have made the choice and as such they inherited what their forefathers may have been brave and bold enough to follow through on.

Imagine the shock of finding out that the store of a bunch of goods and ammo was not the real solution for the future and that by making that choice you have identified with a particular society for the rest of your lessons.

I know there is a Creator. I know who I am inside. I do not 'prepare' for anything. When I came here I had no preps and when I leave I'll have none, and while I'm here I will do what I came here to do. Live.

The system may collapse for some but not all.
There is a symbiotic relationship between the system and the ones staying in it no matter what.
It is there for you. So feel free to stay in it by what you have chosen to do.