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Way back when, people in Texas could come and go as they please, without asking permission from public servants. People just hopped in their wagon, on their horse or even in that new fangled road machine called an automobile and went to and fro, without a MAY I, or SIMON SAYS to any public servant. People were responsible. People did not run over anyone in the process and people got there and back with little or no problems. People assembled with other people at church, school functions, or political meetings or just had fellowship wherever they could find it. But something happen shortly before WW2 where the people of Texas was made to believe that they could not be responsible anymore unless they got a Driver's License, Registered their automobiles each year and performed other functions as though they were Operators of a business in the business of moving people or property for hire. All Content Republic of Texas Copyright Pending Please send bug reports to the Webmaster .
The slow infringement of my right to assemble started by convincing other people that they were not competent to be responsible with their automobile without having a Driver's License. I doubt many people feel better knowing that the person who ran into them had a Driver's License, even though 99% of the people who have been in automobile accidents had a Driver's License. So much for being more responsible having a Driver's License. Next the Texas Legislature decided that automobiles needed to be registered each year so that police could easily know who the automobile owner was. But, if the logic of registering an automobile was to get a Plate for identification of the owner, then why is the requirement to pay for the same Plate each year that you already have? Next the Texas Legislature decided that for you to be responsible to go to and fro, you need to get a Safety Sticker each year to prove that your automobile is safe that one day each year.
Then the Texas Legislature decided for you to be responsible to go to and fro in your automobile you need to put on the safety belt provided in the automobile. Along with these other miner requirements by the Texas Legislature, they come up with a few other requirements (restrictions) found in the Transportation Code, like don't go faster than some sign, stop, yield, turn, don't turn, signal, move over, slow down, and speed up while you pat your head while you rub your tummy.
What happen to my right to assemble?
Texas Constitution
Article 1, Section 27: "RIGHT OF ASSEMBLY... The citizens shall have the right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good; ..."
Article 1, Section 29: PROVISIONS OF BILL OF RIGHTS EXCEPTED FROM POWERS OF GOVERNMENT; TO FOREVER REMAIN INVIOLATE. To guard against transgressions of the high powers herein delegated, we declare that everything in this "Bill of Rights" is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate, and all laws contrary thereto, or to the following provisions, shall be void."
It looks like my right to assemble is still alive and well, if you read what the Texas Constitution states in black and white. So, what am I missing?
If the Texas Legislature is barred from creating laws abridging my right to assemble, then what activity can these laws apply to? Let's see, most traffic violations come from the Transportation Code.
Black's Law Dictionary - 5th Edition
Transportation: "The movement of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier."
Carrier: " Individual or organization engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire."
Well, just by the name of the code, it looks like when we get a ticket the police officer comes to some conclusion that we were in the activity of moving passengers or goods for hire at the time of the stop. Why would he come to that conclusion?
One reason is that the police officer was not trained as to know that there is a difference of activity of free people doing what they have the right to do and those who use the road to move passengers or goods for hire.
The only other reason could be is that making revenue has become an addiction that blinds logic and reason.
The people have been conditioned to believe that people are nothing but subjects to an all powerful government that can neither see nor hear. People in Texas are born as the King or Queen of Texas. When you pull the curtain back from the Great Wizard you find your neighbor acting like a big shot. The power of any public servant is depended only on the consent of the governed. Asking WHY, or BY WHAT AUTHORITY seems to make the public servant feel and act uneasy, because to prove authority over the King or Queen of Texas is a hard row to hoe.
Wouldn't it bear the question, that since you are the King or Queen of Texas, why would the King or Queen allow a public servant to make a law to put the King or Queen in jail if the King or Queen did not harm a person or damage property? It does not make logical sense.
Now go back again and look at Article 1, Section 27 and Section 29 and try and tell me that the Texas Legislature has the authority to dictate to me how I will go to church, visit my family or pursue my happiness where I wander. You'll have a hard row to hoe.
Bobie Kenneth Townsend
Director of the
San Jacinto Constitutional Study Group
Houston, Texas area
ktownsend@gmail.com
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