You go down and you buy the car from the Ford dealer. The Ford dealer then sells the paper to GMAC. You've agreed in this contractual agreement that you'll obey all the rules and regulations and laws, etc. So you have to be licensed, the car has to be registered, and you also have to carry insurance. And that's all it attaches to.

They cannot tax a right. The power to tax is the power to destroy.

We can tax Garrett right out of existence, and there is nothing they can do about it.

But you can't tax the individual out of existence because the individual is a sovereign. The individual has natural inalienable rights guaranteed by the common law under the constitution.

So don't you see what happens to you?

You go down and you buy the car. Now, by contractual arrangement, you have given up your constitutional rights for a privilege under mercantile equity. Now you come under the statutes because the corporation, through its contract, has imposed it upon you.

We have our government out here licensing free and natural persons as well as corporate persons. You don't have to be, but nearly everybody has volunteered.

Now the poor policeman's out here trying to enforce the law. Look at his problem from his perspective.

He's been to the government school. He doesn't understand the constitution or inalienable rights. All he understands is statutes and law. Police regulations.

The guy's been in the army, he was in the Marines for a few years, and maybe he was an M.P., and all he knows is, "Sit down and shut up?" "Do this, do that, jump up, come here" and all that. He doesn't understand freedom. He's been a slave his whole life. That's all the military service is, voluntary servitude. You get in there and you sign the contract, and there you are at the Captain's Mast there on the bridge of the ship. Here's the way that comes down.

You have two crewmen down in the engine room and they have a fight. Do they have any constitutional rights on the high seas? That's Admiralty jurisdiction, you take them up to a Captain's Mast. He just sits there and says, "Well who started this fight?" And he asks questions.

Are their any Fifth Amendment rights? Are their Fourth Amendment rights? No.

He just says, "I'm confining you fellows to quarters and I'm going to fine you so much, and blah, blah, blah." That's the end of that argument.

Well what happens when a passenger on the ship gets into a fight with one of the crewman, and they haul the passenger and the crewman up to the Captain.

Well, if they haul this particular passenger up, I'm going to say, "Excuse me, but you've got a problem here. I'm not one of the crew. I'm not one of the fellows you have jurisdiction over. You don't have jurisdiction over me. I'm challenging your jurisdiction. I'm a paying passenger. I'm a sovereign. You put me off at the next port and we'll talk about common law rights."

And that's where you are on the road.

You see, Garrett has to stop at the port of entry. Garrett trucks, and all these others trucks that are operating in interstate commerce for profit or gain, using our roads, have to pay tax.

Let's try this on to the independent trucker. The independent trucker takes five thousand dollars, he goes down and he puts five thousand down on a truck, and how he own GMAC, or somebody, a bunch of money, doesn't he?

He doesn't own that thing in fee simple .

Now he needs a load, right? So he goes down here to a broker and he goes out and he gets a job.

He goes over to the, let's call it, Acme Lumber Company, and with a bill of lading, he takes a load of lumber from Idaho, and he's going to take it to Texas. So he's going to act in interstate commerce. He has a letter of privilege for profit or gain to use the roads.

Don't we have to control him? How do we know that he's not going to steal the lumber and run to California and sell it?

Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. And here's a fellow that acting in interstate commerce for profit or gain, and he's regulatable. And he'd better stop down here at the port of entry, and he'd better clear, and he'd better pay duties, and he'd better pay his taxes, and he better not be overloaded, and if he is he's going to go into the "Captain's Mast" or summary proceedings. He has to be licensed. His truck has to be licensed. He has to have insurance.

We know how that works. It works that way day in and day out, doesn't it?

How would a man operate, then, if he wanted to operate in the trucking business from Idaho to New York?

Here's the way it works.

The Constitution hasn't changed. The Constitution is still in force and effect. What we have to do is we have to correct our status to that we're no longer servants in bondage to free men who are responsible for their actions.

Here's the way that works.

You go down here and you buy a truck, and you pay cash for it, and you own it, and you throw the license plates away.

Now you're claiming to own this thing in allodial fee simple.

Now if you've got a driver's license, turn it back in by affidavit and stop driving as a matter of privilege and start driving as a free man as a matter of right.

Now you've got no driver's license. You don't owe any money on the truck, so you're not affecting any corporate entity in any way.

Don't insure the truck, because if you insure the truck, then the insurance company is the master and they're responsible for your actions. You've got to be responsible for your own actions.

Now you go down and you want to haul a load.

Oh, oh. Are you going to go over here to the lumber company with a bill of lading and haul that lumber? Uh huh. No. You can't do that.

What you do is you go over and you tender or you pay property for the lumber. Now you own it.

You own the lumber. You own the truck. And you own the road.

Can you drive your truck, with your property on it, on your road?

Well certainly you can.

Can you drive it in the several states?

Absolutely. You can drive it in every state in the Union.

Can you do it for private business?

Absolutely. Take that load of lumber over to Los Angeles or Houston and sell it, and convert it to something, and go down and buy another load and come back.

You can do that.

That's what I do.

Do you know of any people who do that?

Well I don't know of any either.

If you're a truck driver out there and you've been complaining about this police-state environment, if you want to operate as a free man you have to be prepared to be responsible for your actions.

If you think about it for a moment: If the insurance company is responsible for your actions, then you are affecting a public interest, and if you affect a public interest the police powers can come into play, and if the police powers come into play, then you're going to be regulated . . . and you're going to be taxed.

Now I want to tell you about the Toby story.

This is an interesting and a true-to-life characterization of the way our constitution works, the way it has worked in the past, and the way I hope it continues to work in the future.

Remember the story of "Roots"? It was on TV here a while back.

Here was a fellow who was a natural person with inalienable rights living in his own land and his name was Kunta Kintay.

He exercised all the rights of sovereign. He owned property. He was accepted within his community. He wasn't a slave. He wasn't obligated to anybody. He got up in the morning, he went out, and he came and went as he pleased.

Then, he got captured.

He became a part of the spoils of war, taken to a new land, his name changed from Kunta Kintay, the sovereign free man, to Toby the slave.

Toby then was sold to the master.

Look up the word slave in Bouvea's Law Dictionary and you'll find that a slave is a person.

A corporation's a person.

A natural Citizen is a person.

But there are different statuses. There are different powers, rights, obligations, duties, and capacities for different statuses of persons.

Toby has no rights. He doesn't even have a right to live. He has no property rights. He has no right to expect life, liberty or property.

He tries to escape.

What do you do when you have a horse that keep jumping over the fence?

What do you do when you have a cow that keeps breaking the fence, or a calf that you can't keep in?

I used to have a bull that kept jumping over the fence. What did we do? Bored a hole through his nose, put a ring in it, and tied it to a twenty foot rope. That stopped him.

You have to do something to stop your chattels from running away.

Toby ran away. They cut his foot off. It stopped him from running away, didn't it?

The master had a right to protect his property. Toby was property.

OK. Now what happens?

Toby goes out and he starts picking cotton and he stops running away and he becomes a good slave. The master wants to reward the slave with a privilege. So, What's the privilege? The master says, "Toby? See all those women over there? I'm going to let you take any of those women that you want for a wife."

There's the marriage license. There's the privilege.

Remember, the word "license" means the permission to do something that would be otherwise unlawful.

I ask you, my friend, what's illegal about getting married? Did you go down to your government to get a license to get baptized? Do you go to your government to get a license to go to church? Don't you exercise your religious rights freely under the First Amendment?

Our government puts out marriage licenses. Isn't marriage a religious business? What business has government got in regulating marriage?

I'll tell you friend, you go out and get a marriage license, and doesn't health and welfare then come into play? And doesn't compulsory education and compulsory attendance to school? And If you're not good, we're going to take your kid away from you?

Well, what happened to Toby and his wife when his first baby was born. Who owned that child?

Toby and his wife? Uh uh.

You got a bull and a cow. A calf is the offspring. Who owns that calf?

That's right, the master owns that calf. Yeah.

Remember, when the Constitution was formed in 1787, those people were all slave owners and most of them were religious guys. They understood law. They understood slavery. They understood chattels. They understood mortgages. They understood indenture.

It was Benjamin Franklin who said it was better to go to bed hungry than in debt. He said you'd be better off to go to bed without your dinner than to borrow money to eat dinner and wake up to be in servitude the following morning.

People understood debt.

What does Scripture have to say about that?

Isn't the debtor servant to the lender?

Does it make you wonder why banks want you to be in debt constantly?

You've got a house that free and clear. "Why, free up that equity, friend. Come on in and get a twenty five thousand dollar cash second mortgage and go to Hawaii and squander the money and become our servant for the next twenty-five years."

Isn't that what they've been telling you?

Now look where Toby is. He has a wife. He's tied to the plantation. He's a family man. He got permission to do something that a free man would do anyway.

Have you ever heard of a common law wife or a common law marriage?

Do you suppose that people always got marriage licenses from the government to get married?

Well, was there ever a time when you could get married without a license? Why don't you ask yourself that one.

Let's carry the story on just a couple of steps: The master came to Toby and said, "Toby you've been good. You've been picking cotton and you've got a wife and you're not running away. Tell you what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give you another privilege. How would you like to drive the wagon to town to get the supplies?"

Now that's a cushy job. Truck drivers like that. Airline pilots like that.

So he put Toby on the wagon. He trained him to the rules of the road, and there was the master's permission to do something that would otherwise be unlawful. You see Toby couldn't leave the plantation. He has to have the master's permission. That's the driver's license. There's your privilege.

The master/servant relationship. The state licenses you to drive on the road. The master/servant relationship.

Let me ask you this: Toby is driving the wagon to town, he has an accident, he hits another wagon and causes some damage. Who is responsible for the damages that Toby causes on that road?

It isn't Toby. He's a slave. He doesn't have any property and can't possibly pay for any damage.

The person who licensed him. The person who gave him that permission to go out there on the road. The master is responsible for Toby.

Well then, when you're out on the road in an insured automobile, in an insured truck, who's responsible when you have an accident?

The insurance company is responsible.

Well if the insurance company is responsible, isn't the insurance company going to make rules and regulations for you to follow?

It makes sense to me. It makes sense to government. It makes sense to everybody. Because, you see, when you're insured, you're not responsible for your actions, the insurance company is.

If you're going to be free, you're going to have to be responsible for your actions, and that's where the com mon law comes in. The common law acts after the fact. The common law does not act in equity prior to the occurrence.

When the policeman gives you a ticket for driving eighty, he's trying to prevent an accident. That's equity. That's trying to prevent something. That isn't the common law.

The common law acts when the damage has occurred. Then you sue and you get money damages back.

It's when the guy gouges the other guy's eye out that you gouge his eye out, after the fact. That's the common law.

Trying to prevent the eye from being gouged out is in the parameters of the insurance company preventing the loss so that they can protect the claims window.

Now that's how your status works. That's how it works with Garrett. That's why you have a driver's license.

Let's carry this on another step and look at your status when you're talking about building a house.

You go out and you buy a house. You live in it a few years and you say, "Well, I think I'm going to convert the garage over into a family room."

You are?

Wait a minute. Who are you affecting?

Who's house is that? Yours?

Well, that's not your house. You have an equitable interest that house, but you're not a property owner. You are bound by contract to specific performance. You are a servant, a slave. A slave to the bank that lent you the money to buy the house.

Now there is a $50,000 house. You have a $10,000 equitable interest in it. The bank has a $40,000 equitable interest in it. The house is insured for $50,000 and the insurance company stands to lose $50,000 if the house burns to the ground because you didn't wire it right when you added the room on.

In addition to that, the bank is sitting over there saying, "We don't want just anybody adding rooms on, creating 'tobacco-road' tar-paper shacks, depreciating the value of our home that we own, that in case this guy dies or defaults we have to repossess and sell to somebody else."

So the banks and the insurance companies and all the lending institutions go to the legislature and get zoning laws. They get building laws to protect their property.

That makes sense.

If I owned a house, and I sold it to you, I certainly want to be protected. I don't want you to add a room on to that house, wire it incorrectly and have it burn down. I stand to lose $40,000 and you lose $10,000?

If I'm the insurer of it, I certainly don't want to lose $50,000 because of your ineptness.

So you see, a debtor is servant to the lender. The debtor is an incompetent. That's right. Now you're beginning to see why God in the Scripture said, "The servant is debtor to the lender."

You know in ancient times, if you went into debt and didn't pay specific performance they bore a hole in your ear and sold you for seven years until the debt was paid off.

Today, we call that bankruptcy. In ancient times they called that slavery. And boy it could get real severe.

You know if we were at law, and had substance at the common law all, I'll tell you the common law is pretty brutal. The common law doesn't leave any room for bankruptcy. You're gonna pay your debts or you're going to pay them off. Crime doesn't pay at the common law because we're not interested in the law enforcement growth industry, we're only interested in justice.

You know you gouge a man's eye out, the old adage "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is based in the common law.

Equity is, "We want to prevent that loss."

Now, let's discuss this law enforcement growth industry because the police-state environment we have created around ourselves is really inexplicably bound up in this thing I call the law enforcement growth industry.

This law enforcement growth industry, I don't know how big it is, but let's start with a few parameters and let's take a look at what we're talking about with the subject matter.

You've got a lot of policemen out here, nationwide, don't you? I don't know how many policemen there are, but there are thousands and thousands and thousands of policemen. There may be two or three million, right?

Now, how do they make their living?

They make it off of crime.

Don't you have to have lawyers to defend those criminals?

And don't we have to have lawyers to become prosecutors to prosecute those criminals?

Don't we have to have prisons to house those criminals?

Don't we have to have jails?

Don't we have to have sheriffs, judges?

I don't know how many people that are involved in law enforcement, but I'll bet there are four or five million.

Let's try it this way. Let's suppose that everybody in America, starting tomorrow morning, refused to disobey any more laws and nobody would drive drunk, and nobody would build a room on their house without a permits, and everybody obeyed all laws. We would have chaos by the middle of the week.

What would we do? Why, we'd have five or six million out of work law enforcement people. I don't know how many there are. I wish somebody would let me know. But, I'm telling you that these law schools are graduating law students all the time. Every time a lawyer comes out, he's got to have a job somewhere. So he has a real interest in law enforcement and law, prevention and crime, and punishment.

So, I've been in jail a couple or three times, and when I go out there people like to ask me: "What are you in here for? What did you do?"

I say, "My government puts me in here every once in a while because I don't have a driver's license, or because my car's not registered, and because they don't understand my status. I'm in here because I'm a real bad fellow, and I'm a criminal, and society needs to be protected from me because I want my rights and I want my freedoms, and for demanding these rights and freedoms my government locks me up every now and again to protect you from me."

And I find that there are other people in there also . . .

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