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Stewart Rhodes Speaking In Arizona At Prepper Fest AZ Expo
The One Thing Governments Do Really Well..
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------------------- Sovereign Man Notes from the field April 22, 2013 Phnom Penh, Cambodia In the killing fields outside of Phnom Penh, you can still see bone fragments protruding from the ground. It's harrowing to say the least. Roughly two million people were wantonly massacred in the 1970s under the rule of Pol Pot, decimating not only the population but also the nation's economy. Modeling his policies on communist China's failed "Great Leap Forward", Pol Pot destroyed libraries and machinery, devastating the means of production for decades to come. Naturally, there were a few people in Cambodia who saw the writing on the wall in the early 1970s. They didn't wait around, and instead took what they could carry and got the hell out of dodge. They rebuilt new lives for themselves in places like Australia, Singapore, and France at a time when Cambodia was going through the worst turmoil in its modern history. Today is a different story. Cambodia is once again thriving-- producing, exporting resources, and welcoming foreign investment. The economy has consistently (and realistically) been growing at 7%+ for years. I've met several Cambodians living here now who come from some of the families that escaped forty years ago. When the turmoil ended, they returned. They brought the savings that they accumulated overseas... along with experience and skills... and started thriving businesses here that contribute to, and benefit from, the booming local economy. Their stories are fascinating. Even inspiring. They're real life examples of how our primary responsibility is to do what is in the best interest of our families, wherever that takes us in the world. As I was flying up here over the weekend, I happened upon an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Protecting Your Portfolio From Calamity". This raised my antenna a bit as most mainstream media sources tow the line that everything is hunky-dory. The author rightly observed that "[t]he bombings in Boston and an outbreak of bird flu in China are just the latest reminders that everyone needs a disaster plan," and that it makes sense to "rationally plan for the worst." I was shocked to see something like this out of the Journal, especially when she went on to recommend the same things we talk about routinely in this letter-- opening bank accounts in places like Hong Kong and Singapore, or having foreign residency. But one huge point was missed in the article: It wasn't so much the bombing in Boston that serves as a reminder to have a 'disaster plan', but rather the response. Everyone in the Land of the Free ought to be keenly aware of just how fast one of the country's biggest cities was reduced to a ghost town... or how fast thousands of gun-toting, combat-clad paramilitaries descended upon the region with urban assault vehicles and 'shelter in place' orders. No doubt, governments tend to screw up just about everything they try-- from the economy to education to disaster relief. But one thing they consistently excel at is quickly deploying overwhelming firepower. Look, I'm not suggesting that the West is destined to go the way of Pol Pot. But such tactics should cause any freedom-oriented individual to pause briefly and take a serious look at precautionary options abroad. After all, it's hard to imagine that you'd be worse off for having a portion of your savings in a Hong Kong bank account, holding some gold in a depository in Singapore, or owning a small plot of land overseas in a thriving economy. But should the turmoil ever come to your town, these steps may prove to be some of the wisest you could ever take. Until tomorrow, Signature Simon Black Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com --------------- |
AN EVENT LAST YEAR AND ITS FBI CONNECTIONS WITH THOSE IN BOSTON - VID
AN EVENT LAST YEAR AND ITS FBI CONNECTIONS WITH THOSE IN
BOSTON - VID
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One of just many events, and so easily carried
out. How to create a patsy,- An FBI ABC. ------------ From Sept 2012 An 18-year-old suburban Chicago man, who the authorities say was enamored with Osama bin Laden and intent on killing Americans, has been arrested after attempting to detonate what he thought was a car bomb outside a Chicago bar, officials said Saturday. There was never any danger that the suspect, Adel Daoud, would actually detonate a bomb. The plot, which ended with Mr. Daoud’s arrest on Friday, was proposed by undercover F.B.I. agents posing as extremists, according to a statement released by the United States attorney’s office in the Northern District of Illinois. Link. Link. See also: CGI's Lakeview: Something is very, very wrong here !!. FBI set up of suspects as seen in movie Eagle Eye - Video. American Terror: Manufactured by the FBI - Video . ------------- Fox. |
Kerry Cassidy: Operation Takedown
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. As many people already know, the Greer movie, SIRIUS is premiering in Los Angeles on Monday night. What I am told is that he will be appearing there in person to reveal the results of DNA tests on the 8 inch ET body that was found in the desert. What is particularly interesting is that this premiere and Steven Basset's Citizen Hearing for Disclosure at the Press Club in Washington DC is also happening less than a week later, from April 29th to May 3rd. Two disclosure events in such a short span of time is no coincidence. However, one has to ask whether this is the beginning of a controlled campaign for disclosure being spun with a certain hidden hand in the background. I am being told by back channel sources that releasing some disclosure type information at this time is becoming more crucial for those in power because of upcoming events. What those 'events' are is not clear although there has been some indication by people like Gordon Duff, Senior Editor of Veteran's Today who has been clearly tasked by someone (some intel group) with disclosing in a steady stream over the past year. I was told there's a kind of rush (ala hurry up and wait) that the PTB are involved in. Mainly because various factions are competing for one, control, and two, for being in the lead on the final release of the fact that 'we are not alone and we have never been alone' to quote Bob Dean, to the public. At the forefront of those factions wanting to control and 'spin' the disclosure of the ET presence is the Vatican.
By the way, the latest rendition of the
scanners at airports now replacing the old style invasive TSA scanners are
said to be put in place to determine whether those going through are 'human'.
Word is, that the earlier version did the same however, certain changes in
cloaking on the part of the 'visitors' necessitated changes… an upgrade in
the tech used for detection. You didn't think they were replacing the
originals because of 'protest' and health concerns did you?
And while we are on the subject. The recent movie OBLIVION with Tom Cruise has an important statement worth contemplating which suggests that the "invasion" won't happen until after the earth changes escalate. http://entertainment.in.msn.com/hollywood/oblivion-obliterates-box-office-rivals In keeping with the tradition of seeding movies with advance notice to humanity of what the PTB have in store for them.. the time between advance 'notice' and release of their diabolical agenda items is shortening. For example with OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, Americans are put on notice that North Korean's will attempt to invade and take down the White House just days before Kim Jong-un made his threats... And of course, the Boston Marathon bombers (manchurian candidates Chechnyen style) are now being said to be double-agents... see this article posted on Prison Planet, but originally published by DEBKAfile for more on this.
"...a) At what date did the Tsarnaev brothers turn coat
and decide to work for Caucasian Wahhabi networks?b) Did they round up
recruits for those networks in the United States - particularly, among the
Caucasian and Saudi communities?
c) What was the exact purpose of the Boston Marathon bombings and their aftermath at MIT in Watertown?d) Are any more terrorist attacks in the works in other American cities?"
Even this list of questions from the
DEBKAfile article begins to look like the seeding of info to shape a desired
result and set the scene for an escalation of targeting of the American
people. Agenda item better known as 'take down America the last bastion of
freedom from the NWO' in my view. Yes, I know, this place is anything but
'free' in light of the Patriot act and so on however it's the spirit of the
people that has them worried, still. The rebel without a cause spirit in
America may be our last hope....
This 'attack America' stance being laid down by both government and Rothschild run operations is escalating. Be aware that it was no accident that 'operation Watertown' transpired on the celebration of 'Patriots Day'...
The American uprising against British authority in Lexington,
Massachusetts, was on April 19, 1775, but Patriots Day is celebrated on the
third Monday in April, falling this year on April 15."It's a day that
celebrates the free and fiercely independent spirit that this great American
city of Boston has reflected from the earliest days of our nation,"
President Obama said Monday, a few hours after a pair of bombs rocked the
finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and injuring
dozens more.
Read more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/nationalnews/Boston-bombing-Latest-Patriots-Day-tragedy/-/8788944/19762982/-/o5wgv8/-/index.html#ixzz2RBML5Vxl
This is also in keeping with the Sandy Hook tragedy that has direct links to the banking industry and the behind the scenes movement of major funds hidden under the cover of that inside operation. [see my prior article on Sandy Hook for more on this]. This has to do with what the NWO has to deal with in order to count their game of takedown America a success... laying a trail of ritual sacrifice from Aurora to Sandy Hook to Benghazi to Watertown... follow the dots and note the hidden war being played at the highest levels where rebellious America is being brought to heel by the Rothschild banking cartels. Everyone will have already heard about the episode of Family Guy where this event was foreshadowed...and the many seedings in advance of the actual incident where it would appear that the AI running the show has gotten ahead of itself, and spiraled out of control until it announces the incidents before they occur... emphasizing the weird time warp we are currently living in. Of course the links to Islamic Jihad and the Saudis is strangely reminiscent of 911 and looks like there is also an effort to steer us into war in the Middle East much like what happened after 911...even though all of that was planted and had nothing to do with terrorism. What we are facing is a build up to allow for government sponsored terrorism to create a climate in which they can spur the American people to get into another war against a contrived Middle Eastern enemy... So where does this end or go next? Indications that the renewed gun controls will of course be expanded and the set up continues... Setting the scene for a false alien invasion requires people to believe that 'aliens are real' and therefore we have a CIA sponsored roll-out for disclosure of a sort that then allows for a real invasion that is actually been going on for sometime now. Just a side note that if we are being invaded by 8 inch aliens that keeping our guns might be advisable if only to defend ones family LOL.... Meanwhile, back here at home on American soil the trail of blood leads in the direction of war... in order to get the Chinese entangled in the Middle East and by way of Syria, to Iran. Lastly, after the 'fall of Olympus' comes the apocalyptic decimation of the planet by way of an asteroid which hits the moon or uh, Mars (like what I am being told) resulting in advanced Earth changes where upon the 'invasion' by the AI network can begin in earnest. Keeping in mind along the lines of foreshadowing... with OBLIVION and the upcoming Will Smith movie AFTER EARTH, in which their spaceship lands on a hostile planet called Earth... after the apocalypse where it has become a place HOSTILE TO HUMANS... Stepping back to view the clues... When we expose the pre-meditated nature of their crimes against humanity we take the wind out of their sails and place you in a position to rethink the future. Stay awake and aware. For previous related articles on the above: http://projectcamelotportal.com/kerrys-blog/1644-boston-marathon-blood-sacrifice-xyz http://projectcamelotportal.com/kerrys-blog/1487-ge-libor-next-stop-nyc |
BONE APPETIT! MUSLIMS GO WILD IN 'DEMONIC' RITUAL
WND EXCLUSIVE
BONE APPETIT! MUSLIMS GO WILD IN 'DEMONIC'
RITUAL
'A dark and incomprehensible spirit has
possessed the souls of Egypt'
Published: 3 hours ago
· Monday, April
22, 2013
A former
Muslim Brotherhood terrorist claims a bizarre video released out of Egypt
demonstrates the “demonic” spirit that has gripped the nation since its 2011
Islamic revolution.
The video
shows a wedding celebration in which a group of men in a frenzy tear apart a
live chicken by hand, then scrabble over its pieces to eat its raw flesh.
“The video is a glimpse into the dark and
incomprehensible spirit that has possessed the souls of Egypt,” claims Walid
Shoebat, a former Palestinian Liberation
Organization operative who has since renounced his terrorist ways. “Lawlessness
has abounded, excesses have gone unrestricted and the full force of Islam has
greatly dimmed the land with its dark clouds, thundering about and striking
without discrimination.”
Shoebat told
WND the video comes from a wedding in the Egyptian district of Algharbieh,
which lies on the Nile River between Cairo and Alexandria.
Shoebat
further reports much of Egypt has descended into chaos and mob rule, with
lynchings, rape and “diabolical rituals unknown in our time.”
He points, for example, to a video from
last year, in which two thieves were caught in a western province village
and without due process were hung upside down while angry crowds mutilated their
bodies, spilling pools of blood on the ground.
“The acts of public executions happen as a result of the lack
of trust towards the police,” Shoebat asserts, “and since lawlessness abounds,
the people decided to follow an Islamic code of Shariah called Hiraba, which is to
take the law into their own hands.”
Shoebat provided WND with video of victims
burned publicly, whipped
and tortured corpses dragged through the streets, violent
confrontations and armed mobs outside Christian churches and the
widely circulated video of Coptic women being raped
in in broad daylight to cries of “Allahu Akbar” from the crowd.
One Egyptian
commented on YouTube, “What happened to the good old days when Hosni Mubarak
was in charge in which no one dared to do such things? Because in his time
there was law and order and an iron fist to whoever breaks it.”
“We have
warned about this,” Shoebat said. “Egypt will begin to enforce the Islamic
sanctioned Hiraba, the code on punishments being applied.”
To Shoebat, a
former radicalized Muslim who turned from his life of jihad after converting to
Christianity in 1994, the reports of anarchy in Egypt reflect a prophecy in the
Bible’s book of Isaiah: “The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst
thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken
[man] staggereth in his vomit” (Isaiah 19:14).
Followup on Okie's comments per Wells Fargo Bank
Submitted by a patriot --- Johnnie did not write this
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To
follow up with Okie regarding his statement: "Wells Fargo is one of
the most reputable banking institutions in America," I am submitting
the following list which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Wells Fargo is NOT
among "the most reputable banking institutions in America." If Wells
Fargo is among the most reputable, I hate to think what the less well known
banks but more honest banks are rated. Wells Fargo is ANYTHING BUT
REPUTABLE. Proof is provided below, and this doesn't even begin to
provide the numerous accounts of issues with this bank. Haven't even
scratched the surface.
Wells Fargo - 8,379
Complaints, Reviews, Scams, Lawsuits & Frauds Reported On These Banks
Wells Fargo Bank |
Ripoff Report | Complaints Reviews Scams Lawsuits Frauds Reported
ANGRY WELLS FARGO
CUSTOMERS ORGANIZE MARCH TO TAKE OVER THE ANNUAL GENERAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
Wells
Fargo Bank is responsible for some of the worse abuses
of public funds and resources. It has received
$43.7 billion in bailout funds, but continues to
foreclose on families and neglects to pay taxes.
Wells Fargo is a prison profiteer and uses its mutual funds, the money deposited by its
clients, to invest
in these private detention corporations. As of December 31,
2010, Wells Fargo had $88.7 million, or 4 million shares invested in the GEO
Group, http://www.geogroup.com/ in the nation’s second-largest private prison company, and
$5.9 million, ½ shares, in CCA (Corrections Corporation of America) according to Security and Exchange Commission filings. Their combined prison holdings are valued upwards of 120
million.
Wells Fargo Poor Banking Practices
Wells Fargo Overdraft Lawsuit: Bank Ordered To Pay $203 MILLION In Fees Over 'Unfair' Charges
Analyst Dumps Wells Fargo for Bad Service, Upgrades Its Stock to a Buy
Summary of Online
Comments - Parodies of Wells Fargo Images
$4,000,000 Lawsuit
Against Wells Fargo For Mortgage Fraud (1 lawsuit – there are lots of others)
http://www.ostendorflaw.com/blog/?p=13
short history of optional titling and registration
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John: We here in Oregon
have been in battle to get the truth exposed. The Department of
Transportation is one of the biggest racketeering operations in existence all
tied into the trucking industry and insurance companies. We have the proof
and evidence after years of research and what I call forenic paper
investigating. We are getting close, but the battle continues and if
the truth ever gets into the hands of the right people or patriots, I know of
several high ranking public officials or should I say corporate officials
that could end up in jail for a long time. As we know the JUSTUS system is as
corrupt as it gets from the scum at the bottom all the way to the scum at the
top.
Anyway, the following is
was written by Richard L Koenig who is the spear head on the matters of our
liberty of locomotion. He is considered the top expert on the Oregon
Motor Vehicle Code and has paid the price for being so...
Martin Luther King Jr. This man has a story most would not believe and it's not just all about him. "When armed force compels compliance with mythical laws and money is demanded for its violation, power will corrupt and greed will never be satisfied." Richard L Koenig PS: The attachment is a bonus
-------Original Message-------
From: Richard Koenig
Date:
4/22/2013 8:18:31 PM
Subject:
short history of optional titling and registration
Check this out. Comments are desired. Only a few people have seen this, or a similar draft. I'm not sure about including the second part that is in a different font, but I felt that the shortness of the history left too much unexplained. Do I need to combine the two sections and cut it down over all? I didn't want to get so involved when I started the project. -- Richard L. Koenig
This document is definitely NOT about “Legal Stuff”
ODOT’s
2012 “Optional” Titling and Registration Rules
OAR 735-022-0130
AND OAR 735-032-0055 respectively:
A brief
history
Authorizing
Statutes: ORS 803.035, 803.040 and 803.310, Optional Titling and
Registration
Have you ever heard
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In 1985 DMV’s Director
Moomaw was also a member of “an agency of the Supreme Court”, formerly known
as the “Traffic Court Rules Committee”, but the name had been changed during
its existence to the “Minor Court Rules Committee”. nt a legitimate face on extortion to broaden your
perspective.
The authorizing
statutes were created in order to prevent loss of an unspecified amount of
revenue . In 1985, DMV Director, David P. Moomaw told Oregon’s
Legislative Assembly that his agency had been receiving “some” revenue NOT
AUTHORIZED IN CURRENT LAW. His proposed law provided for the “Optional
Titling and Registration” of most vehicles, which are not required to be
titled and registered, so that his agency would not “lose” the revenue stream
to which it had become accustomed. Of course such an assertion is
questionable on its face, because one does not lose something that one has
never had legal claim to (fees collected without authority in law are
“unlawful” and are therefore subject to being reimbursed).
In 1985 DMV’s Director
Moomaw was also a member of “an agency of the Supreme Court”, formerly known
as the “Traffic Court Rules Committee”, but the name had been changed during
its existence to the “Minor Court Rules Committee”. Of course the
separation of powers doctrine constrains an officer of the Executive Branch
of Government, like Mr. Moomaw, from simultaneously serving in another branch
of government. Mr. Moomaw wasn’t the only Executive Branch officer on
the Minor Court Rules Committee, the Superintendent of the Oregon State
Police was a statutorily described member of the Committee as well. The
most important mission of the Minor Court Rules Committee was to make the
general public feel welcome in Traffic Court where they had long been
expected to pay fees and fines for non- compliance with laws that are
specific to licensed commercial interests making the public highways a place
of business hauling persons or property for hire.
In searching the files
of the Legislative Revenue Office to determine the extent of the financial
impact, one discovers that no analysis of who was to pay how much for what,
was done, undoubtedly because Moomaw’s revenue preserving bill was introduced
under a Senate Bill number. Inasmuch as “a penny saved is a penny
earned”, and the fact that Mr. Moomaw was admittedly intent on saving a
revenue stream never before authorized by law, there can be no doubt that SB
124 of 1985 was a revenue raising bill. The Oregon
Constitution at Art. IV, Sec. 18 says Mr. Moomaw’s bill, now encoded at ORS
803.035, 803.040 and 803.310 can not be legitimate because “all bills for
raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives”.
Legislative Counsel staff, including a gentleman named Bradd Swank, whose job
it is to draft legislative measures and assign bill numbers to them, must be
presumed to know the law that governs their jobs. Therefore, it may
further be “legally presumed” that the LARGEST revenue raising bill ever to
have received a majority vote by Oregon’s Legislative Assembly was willfully
concealed from the staff of Legislative Revenue Office to prevent the
analysis they would ordinarily perform, merely by hiding it behind a Senate
Bill number, instead of the constitutionally required House Bill number.
The opening sentence of
Mr. Moomaw’s law says there are the TWO classes of vehicles which, by law,
have never been expected to be titled or registered, those which are “not
subject to”, and those which are “exempt from” the titling and registration
requirements. The option of DMV to issue documents of title and
registration to such vehicles is, ostensibly, triggered at the request of an
owner of one of these vehicles. Note: The stated intent of the bill
was to apply the same provisions to both titling and registration, but
through “clerical error” the optional registration section now has no mention
of the group of vehicles which is “not required to be registered for any
reason”. The vehicles which may be optionally titled and
registered are not described in the statutes, but are listed as non-descript
“categories of vehicles, types of vehicles or otherwise”. The one clear
message that comes across in an otherwise vague section, is that there certainly
are a lot of vehicles that wouldn’t normally be titled and registered (How
many “categories” are there, how many “types”, not enough to encompass all
the “otherwise” vehicles, but nobody seems to know).
Putting these two
groups of vehicles within a body of law which is dedicated to “vehicles
operated over the highways of this state for compensation or profit” (ORS
803.030(14)(c) and 803.305(14)(c)), already constitutes a willful violation
of the single subject clause at Article IV, Section 20 by someone, an
attorney, who worked in the office of Legislative Counsel in 1985 and, as an
attorney, had sworn to uphold the constitutions. It contains far more
than one subject; introduces these vehicles into a body of law that regulates
a different subject class of vehicles; and whatever is meant by the language,
“categories of vehicles, types of vehicles or otherwise”, is so vague as to
be void for that reason alone, and these reasons are in addition to the fact
the bill was introduced as a Senate Bill.
Although Mr. Moomaw’s
spokeswoman, Joanne Peterson, represented to the legislative committee that
these new sections were prompted in response to numerous owners beseeching
the agency to issue vehicle title and registration as “a favor”, not one of
the owners who were to become the beneficiaries of these laws appeared to
testify during the commitd be provided of the rule making proceedings
(meaning the “NOTICE” was in name only). Clearly, every member of the
general public would “choose” to title… or not to title. It should be
noted that never before in the history of Oregon rule making has “the general
public” been identified as the “financially impacted parties” (laws and
implementing rules are made to regulate many “persons” but not for the
people) . Of course no one showed up for the public input hearing that had
been scheduled just a few days before Christmas 2004. Only one person
signed up to present data, views or arguments pursuant to rule making law at
the time of the hearing for the financially impacted parties, Feb. 16, 2005
(but he had inside information from a friend in ODOT). At thmbers of the general public who choose to apply for
title” (Imagine choosing to be financially impacted).
Even though the
financially impacted parties were now clearly identified, the DMV hearings
officer, David Eyerly, who prepared the NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE MAKING said because
there was no way to determine how many people would choose to title their
vehicles, that no notice would be provided of the rule making proceedings
(meaning the “NOTICE” was in name only). Clearly, every member of the
general public would “choose” to title… or not to title. It should be
noted that never before in the history of Oregon rule making has “the general
public” been identified as the “financially impacted parties” (laws and
implementing rules are made to regulate many “persons” but not for the
people) . Of course no one showed up for the public input hearing that had
been scheduled just a few days before Christmas 2004. Only one person
signed up to present data, views or arguments pursuant to rule making law at
the time of the hearing for the financially impacted parties, Feb. 16, 2005
(but he had inside information from a friend in ODOT). At the hearing,
he was told to relinquish the microphone because the time for “public
comment” was closed, even though he had signed up, as required, to testify as
“an interested party”. Under threat, he cut his presentation short, but
not before leaving an information package for the record containing relevant
pages of the “legislative history” of Mr. Moomaw’s Senate Bill 124 of 1985.
The resulting rule did
NOT describe the vehicles which might be titled upon request his Senate Bill 124 and implementing rule. Being subject to
all of the provisions of the Vehicle Code means registration plate,
driver license, motor vehicle fuel tax, parking meters and of course
“mandatory insurance”. Basically, the idea was that if a member of the
general public chose to sign up, he or she would be expected to do what motor
vehicle operators do, or pay the fines for non-compliance.
A State Representative,
prompted by a constituent, approached the Office of Legislative Counsel,
which is charged with reviewing rules to assure conformity with legislative
intent. The legislator pointede="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">
Time for a reality
check: Mr. Moomaw’s law included a section about the effect of titling
a vehicle, now encoded at ORS 803.040. Any member of the general public
who might choose, wittingly or not, to title his or her personal use vehicle
would thereby make the vehicle “subject to all of the provisions of the
vehicle code” under this section. This is exactly what Mr. Moomaw had
admitted was “not authorized in current law”, and that was supposed to be
fixed with his Senate Bill 124 and implementing rule. Being subject to
all of the provisions of the Vehicle Code means registration plate,
driver license, motor vehicle fuel tax, parking meters and of course
“mandatory insurance”. Basically, the idea was that if a member of the
general public chose to sign up, he or she would be expected to do what motor
vehicle operators do, or pay the fines for non-compliance.
A State Representative,
prompted by a constituent, approached the Office of Legislative Counsel,
which is charged with reviewing rules to assure conformity with legislative
intent. The legislator pointed out rule vagueness and attendant
problems with program accessibility to the general public. In addition,
rule adoption irregularities were brought to the attention of Legislative
Counsel, Dexter Johnson. In spite of the general non effect of the rule
on agency practice, Dexter Johnson wrote a brief opinion to the effect that
the rule which resulted from an unconstitutional revenue raising bill was
just fine (presumably the vagueness of the rule accurately conformed to the
vagueness of the authorizing statute, but the issue of intent was studiously
avoided).
The issue of optional
registration was not visited until 2009 when a financially impacted party,
member of the general public, with standing under rule making laws to
initiate a new rule, or amend or repeal an existing rule, submitted a
proposed rule predicated on the assumption that the authorizing statute was
legitimate. The proposed rule(s) would have also had the simultaneous
effect of repealing and replacing the optional titling rule. The
proposed rule highlighted the need for anyone “requesting” to title and
register a “vehicle not subject to [mandatory] titling and registration”, to
be fully informed of the implications of their choice, which is that the
vehicle then becomes subject to all of the provisions of the vehicle code,
including privilege fees, taxes and fines, which had been the goal of the
Minor Court Rules Committee and their executive branch member, Mr.
Moomaw.
ODOT’s Director,
Matthew Garrett, prepared a “Request for Action” directed to the
Transportation Commissioners who, by law, vote on rules only after the
prescribed series of hearings. Mr. Garrett requested that the
Commissioners vote to deny themselves an opportunity to consider the proposed
rule, prior to any hearings being scheduled. In preparing for the
Commissioner meeting of October 21, 2009, Mr. Garrett told his Rules
Coordinator NOT place a copy of the proposed rule in the information package
that is routinely made available to the Commissioners prior to each
vote. The fact that the Commissioners voted to not consider the
proposed rule, and that their vote was taken absent any required input, is a
matter of public record. This can be confirmed by using the public
record law: Request records of Oregon Transportation Commission meeting
of October 21, 2009, Matt Garrett’s Request for Action in regard to
optional titling and registration and the vote of Commissioners.
Neither the author of
the proposed rule, nor his state representative, Jules Kopel Bailey, who had
overseen its drafting, were notified that the Commissioners would be asked to
refrain from considering the proposed rule on October 21, 2009. When
the author was notified a month later that the Commissioners had voted to
dispense with the proposed rule, he began to inquire and was soon arrested
for questioning authority by the US Marshalls Fugitive Recovery Team who
found him at his office. He ended up being incarcerated 300 days,
including four and a half months at the Oregon State Hospital before being
released, charges dismissed, without a day in court to make a record of the
events leading to his arrest.
While the interested
party was being held, ODOT went through a new round of rule making to repeal
and replace the optional titling rule and create an optional registration
rule. The lack of a registration rule to legitimize the sale of license
plates to members of the general public who might request was clearly a
glaring hole in the scam, but in view of Legislative Counsel’s approval of
the 2005 optional titling rule, one might wonder why that rule was repealed
and replaced at the same time. The working hypothesis of this writer is
that the STATEMENT OF NEED AND FISCAL IMPACT that particularly identified the
financially impacted parties as “members of the general public who choose to
apply for title” (for any vehicle they might own) needed to be buried under
another layer of paper, and fast.
The new rules, which
were certified finally adopted on May 12, 2012, provide for the optional
titling and registration of fire trucks! That’s right, the owners of
fire trucks may now choose to pay the titling and registration fees and by
doing so, make their vehicles “subject to all of the provisions of the
vehicle code”. DMV “certificates of title” (not ACTUAL title) are also
one proof of ownership. Now when the people of a city or town lose
their fire trucks, or one is stolen, owners who have chosen to obtain a
“certificate of title” can use it to help get the missing fire truck
back. Imagine the popularity of a rule like this!
The absurdity of the
notion that fire truck owners would choose to pay to become regulated so that
they have to stop for traffic control devices on the way to a fire is a
measure of the disdain that the rule makers have for the victims of their
scam . Inquiry has yet to be made about how many fire truck owners have
actually chosen to title their vehicles.
Fire trucks are in the
same list of vehicles as “solely for personal use” vehicles, which is encoded
at ORS 801.208. This section describes sub groups of “commercial
vehicles” called “commercial motor vehicles” and at subsection 2, “commercial
motor vehicles” are contrasted with those vehicles that are NOT subject to
the titling requirement, including the fire trucks and solely for personal
use vehicles.
So now the question
arises, has DMV decided to withdraw the option for the general public to
title their vehicles and become regulated, OR since fire trucks and solely
for personal use vehicles are in the same list of vehicles which are NOT
required, are fire trucks and solely for personal use vehicles both up for
optional titling?
CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING IN ANSWERING THE QUESTION
In corroboration of the
titling and registration requirments, ORS 801.305 says
the general public “use” their vehicles on the highways of this state “as a matter of RIGHT” (no hoops to jump through). The all powerful people, through their Legislators reaffirmed this law as recently as 2007, but… ORS 801.050 says, “Subject to compliance with the motor vehicle laws of this state, owners and operators of motor vehicles are granted the PRIVILEGE to use the highways of this state”. This language was included in the Vehicle Code at the time of the revision of the 1980s.
The Executive Branch,
through its Department of Transportation, adopted Oregon Administrative
Rule 735-016-0020 to implement the revised code having to do with the
Titling and Registration and Driver licensing chapters of the Vehicle
Code. At subsection (7) of that rule, “Operating a motor vehicle in
Oregon”, is defined to mean, “the physical operation of a vehicle for
BUSINESS purposes”.
ORS 221.485 is an
encoded finding of the Legislative Assembly to the effect that the operation
of “for hire vehicles” and the “owners and operators” thereof are matters
of public concern such that they are found to be proper subjects of
regulation by government.
SUMMARY OF RELEVANT FACTS:
The Judicial Branch of
government, through its agency, “Minor Court Rules Committee” through its
Executive Branch member, DMV Director David P. Moomaw, have admitted that
there are many vehicles that are not subject to the titling and registration
requirements, and consequently are not subject to all of the provisions of
the vehicle code (can’t get traffic tickets). To confirm, consult the
most recent Executive Secretary of the Minor Court Rules Committee, Douglas
M. Bray, now Trial Court Administrator for Multnomah County’s Circuit Court.
The Legislative
Branch’s staff person, former assistant Legislative Counsel, Bradd Swank
drafted Mr. Moomaw’s revenue preserving measure and assigned it a Senate Bill
number, which had the effect of precluding analysis by the Legislative
Revenue Office of Oregon’s biggest revenue bill such that it could never be
lawfully enacted.
The Executive Branch
knows full well the implications of what is going on as reflected in the ODOT
rule making processes that acknowledged that only “members of the general
public who choose to apply” will be financially impacted by titling their
vehicles (now repealed and replaced and obscured by the rule that lets fire
truck owners title and register their vehicles) AND that “’Operating a motor
vehicle in Oregon’ means physically operating a vehicle for business
purposes”.
For confirmation of any
and all of the above information, the reader is referred to ODOT’s Rules
Coordinator. Make request for the files related to OAR 735-022-0120
(the 2005 optional titling rule); OAR 735-022-0130 (the 2012 optional
titling for fire trucks); OAR 735-032-0055 (optional registration for
fire trucks); and OAR 735-016-0020 definition of “Operating a motor vehicle
in Oregon”. Be sure to ask for the complete file, including exhibits
submitted to the Transportation Commissioners.
This writer is
available for rendering sworn testimony. He was responsible for
initiating ODOT’s “optional titling” rule making process in 2005 and the only
“interested party” to testify; He wrote the proposed “optional titling
and registration” rule of 2009, and was arrested for questioning
authority; He interviewed assistant Legislative Counsel Bradd Swank
after having read his book , “Introduction to the Vehicle Code, 1986 – 1987”,
on how and why he drafted the present vehicle code, including the optional
titling and registration statutes; He has made many Public Record Law
Requests to agencies of the state and governmental subdivisions in the course
of researching the misapplication of the Vehicle Code to the traveling
public; Being possessed of rather obscure information, he has been
called and appeared as an expert witness in Traffic Court on the application
of the motor vehicle laws on a number of occasions and is yet to be rebutted.
Department of Justice Spokeman, John Ellis initially informed this
writer of the discrepancy between the commercial motor vehicle laws and
traffic enforcement policy to ticket the traveling public in 1995. This
writer has made motor vehicle law his focus since then.
Richard L. Koenig
Some people have commented to the
effect that the story of Mr. Moomaw’s law and implementing rules is
“complicated”. The brief history of Optional Titling and Registration
is not really “complicated”. The story is about collusion between many
public servants over the course of 30 years to obscure reality. The
tactics used are secrecy, deceit and even violence. It may defy a
reader’s ability to comprehend that significant elements of the Judicial
Branch, the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch of government (as
well as Attorney General and the Secretary of State’s Office) have all
acted together to accomplish an illegal end, instead as a check and balance
against each other, but that does not make it “complicated”.
Not everybody mentioned in this story
is a bad person. Many peripheral players are merely lacking the
education required by law to properly perform their official duties, foremost
among them being to check the tendency of their supervisors to abuse
power. If schools were not violating the law to systemically deprive
students of the courses in constitutional studies that must be provided commencing
no later than the beginning of the eighth grade and continuing through the
University System, executive branch officers would not have been named as
members of a judicial branch agency; a senate bill to raise revenue would
never have flown; violations of the single subject and plainly worded clauses
of the constitution would not have been written; and an implementing rule
naming “the general public” as “financially interested parties” would not
have been accepted for filing by clerks at the Office of the Secretary of
State.
Mr. Moomaw’s Law is instructive about
the evolution of a government to something that is beyond the control of “the
people” in whom all power is inherent. While the fetters which were
intended to bind government have been loosed, the people have been
systematically disabled by the “education system”. To create some kind
of meaningful time frame, though not all inclusive, please note that the law
requiring schools “to emphasize” the Oregon and United States Constitutions
and such classes as will promote “obedience to the law” was enacted in
1923. No high school graduate alive to talk about it today has ever
reported receiving the education required by what is now encoded at ORS
336.057 and 336.067. Personnel officers hiring help for public offices
certainly do not expect an applicant to possess the education required by law
to have even graduated from high school.
The Legislative Assembly formed a
special interim committee to study how to come up with enough money to fix
the damage the commercial haulers were causing to the “Public Right of Way”
in 1941, at the outset of the second World War. In order to ask members
of the transportation industry why they weren’t paying enough taxes to fix
the roads they were damaging, the committee created a comprehensive mailing
list of all commercial haulers licensed to do business in Oregon during their
first even year existence. During the war years, the people had little
gas to go anywhere on the highway, but the interim committees continued to be
reauthorized as highways deteriorated. With a comprehensive mailing
list compiled at government expense, the corporate shippers and haulers
gained a unified voice, now the “Oregon Trucking Association”, that began to
influence legislation. The Traffic Court Rules Committee was unlawfully
enacted into being in 1959, mixing executive branch officers with officers of
the court. Oregon’s Judicial Commission began gathering and comparing
data from the experimental efforts of the sister states to maximize profit as
a result of adjusting procedure in traffic courts in the 1970s (many of the
reports of soaring profit margins reviewed by the Judicial Commission found
that it was not even necessary to schedule trials, because 50% of the
experimental group would send in their money if given a chance to pay the
fines and forget it).
Interbranch conversations began to
contemplate a complete revamping of Oregon’s Motor Vehicle Laws and in 1979
the decision was made to commence that effort the following legislative
session. The revision to what we know today as the Vehicle Code was the
largest reorganization of a body of law ever untaken in Oregon and
consequently called “The Whale” by capitol insiders. It took three
legislative sessions to complete, with Mr. Moomaw’s Law being introduced
rather late in the final session on April Fool’s Day, 1985. When Mr.
Moomaw’s petition for authority to keep on doing what had never been legal
was read into the record, only two people in the room knew what was going on
besides the DMV presenters. The Chairwoman, Senator Jane Cease, then in
her fourth session as chair of the Transportation Committee (two in the House
and two in the Senate) and Committee Administrator, Claudia Howells, who was
to soon rise in the ranks from a legislative clerk to become Director of
ODOT’s Rail Division.
All this information is sitting in
our beautiful marble and Persian Carpeted State Archives facility.
While I was enjoying the reading room’s floor to ceiling view windows and
hand crafted solid wooden tables and chairs intended to seat one hundred or
more, I noticed that almost no one else was there to enjoy it with me.
I saw an occasional bureaucrat preparing a report for a presentation, or a
legislative aide on special assignment, but no people, no students.
Typically, the staff of three or four archivists outnumbered the
researchers. Wasupwidat?
It is no wonder that a once free
people now pay for permission to come and go as they might choose (we all
“requested” to title our cars, didn’t we) and by doing so underwrite the
transportation industry. With subsidies like this coming out the
whazoo, the corporate shippers and haulers can bring goods from places where
labor camps are kept behind chain link fences and get them to store shelves
cheaper than can be made by Oregonians, or Americans, because this is not a
state specific scam (Mr. Moomaw was honored by the American Association of
Highway Administrators as The Administrator of the Year, more than once).
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to get so
involved, but there is so much to tell. I’m as angry with stupid people
as much as I am with the corporations who are now using the police powers of
the state to enforce their extortion.
In a recent constitutionally required
“Highway Cost Allocation Study” the study group found that “light passenger
motor vehicles” (generically, “taxis”) are paying 67% of the costs of
maintaining the infrastructure that is receiving the vast majority of
its damage from heavier vehicles (the study didn’t even attempt to apportion
the actual damage between the classes of vehicles). But the elephant in
the room that nobody in the capitol talks about anymore is “the general
public” who use their “solely for personal use” vehicles on the highway “as a
matter of right”. How many “light passengers vehicles”/taxis were
there in that year, almost one for every man, woman and child in Oregon, not
quite (three point three million light passenger vehicles, and an estimated
three point five million people). That, in itself, is ABSURD and
apparently so embarrassing that the figure was not printed in the 50 plus
page study, but only orally recited to the stupid legislators who were
sleeping through the presentation. Listening to this presentation, one
might have gotten the impression that the traveling public and their personal
use vehicles have become extinct.
We all know what a “passenger” is,
and likely been one when we rode a bus, flew cross country, or rode AmTrack,
some of us may have even booked “passage” on an ocean liner.
“Passenger” means one who has paid for “passage” and is being “transported”
by a “common carrier”. We used to have a phrase that was interchangeable
with roads and streets that was self-explanatory, “the Public Right of
Way”. Is there any doubt that the public have the right of way on the
Public Right of Way? And yet, we have not only been illegally deprived
of the education the schools are required by law to provide, we have been
taught that words can not be counted on to mean what a dictionary says they
do. “License” used to be commonly understood to be the permission
that the people, through their public agencies, gave companies to do business
in order to have some assurance of quality control. Now, the first
thing that comes to mind for many of us when we hear the term “license”, is
the permission that public servants sell to people to use their own personal
property, car, in the exercise of right to go to church, to the seats of
government to petition for redress, to pursue happiness by going to the store
to stock up on a special deal. Is it a “privilege” to take the family
car to the hospital for the birth of our new baby sister?
Can our current collective state of
consciousness be a result of random circumstances, or perhaps an inadvertence
somewhere in our social history? Look at the totality of the
picture. Look at the seamless sub-systems all going in the same direction
and guess again. Who, or what, has the resources to pull off a scam of
such grand scale? How much does it cost to purchase the loyalty of a
legislator or attorneys in the office of Legislative Counsel, or judges on
the Minor Court Rules Committee? How about sums of money that most of
us will never see in our life time? Remember, Oregon is just one state,
where is it different?
I only know what I’ve read or been
told (occasionally by the scammers). I certainly don’t know everything
about the underwriting of corporate shippers and haulers by the unlawful
imposition of privilege fees and taxes on most people. I am willing to
share what I do know. To read more, enter “Richard L. Koenig” as a
search term on the www. There is also lot of material under “Right to
travel versus Privilege to drive”. There are hundreds of high court
rulings that all say what you think you know is probably wrong in searchable
electronic formats.
Assuming that I can subsidize my own
existence, I am willing to meet with groups of at least fifteen people.
In order to experience a comprehensive download of the information I have
accumulated would take at least two full days, so there are many
possibilities for presentations of particular focus: creating public
record law requests; interviewing bureaucrats; lobbying; dealing with traffic
court; as well as the substance of what I have learned over the course of
eighteen years of examining the underwriting of commercial shippers and
haulers. Custom seminar packages can be arranged given a two week
notice.
If you would like to get on my email
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