Fishing a Right? Legislation for open carry?

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I know this isn't exactly a gun discussion, but it is related I think. If anything I would like some information or a discussion and at the very least I hope you are entertained.

I was out shopping for a new gun at Turner's outdoors for the purpose of open carry in California and Nevada. While I was shopping I came across a sign that said you could buy a fishing license there. I remembered awhile back while looking at the California State Constitution that the people have a Right to fish upon it's lands. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html article 25 section 1. I then asked the salesman behind the counter why I would need a license or "permission" to fish if I have the inalienable Right to do so. Needless to say i got a blank look and he asked if i wanted a license or not. Well now i got really curious and decided to call the department of fish and game. After a few minutes with a computer and a lady answering phones I was connected to a ranger station. After asking why I needed permission and to pay for something that I have a Right to do the lady responded with a "wow that is the most interesting question I have ever got." She then put me on speaker phone with the others in the office and we discussed the issue for about 15 minutes. They all agreed with me but they also said the money goes to their paycheck and to maintain the waters, but that I should not HAVE to pay unless I wanted to since it is a Right and not a privledge. They gave me a number to call in Sacramento to the head noob in charge of fish and game. Spoke briefly to the lady who answers his phone then he got on the phone after a short time on hold. I explained my question to him and his response was what I had expected. "Listen smart ass I am not a constitutional lawyer but if you are caught fishing without a license you will be fined" then he hung up on me. So much for our state officials working for us.

The way i see it, fishing just like the Right to keep and bear arms is open to various views. I am still rather new to OC.Org but are there any plans to get a voter sponsored bill on the ballot in a city, county, or state level to make more clear our Rights? The way I see it is if the people in Sacramento can pass legislation or regulate our Right to fish, could we not also do the same in reverse?

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greengum wrote:

They gave me a number to call in Sacramento to the head noob in charge of fish and game. Spoke briefly to the lady who answers his phone then he got on the phone after a short time on hold. I explained my question to him and his response was what I had expected. "Listen smart ass I am not a constitutional lawyer but if you are caught fishing without a license you will be fined" then he hung up on me. So much for our state officials working for us.

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I would say you got schooled on how things work here in the PRK. When it comes to taxing thesubjects in this state you better just back off mister!

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greengum wrote:

but are there any plans to get a voter sponsored bill on the ballot in a city, county, or state level to make more clear our Rights? The way I see it is if the people in Sacramento can pass legislation or regulate our Right to fish, could we not also do the same in reverse?

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Paying Alan Gura to do it for us will be a lot more effective and cost less when the partywe are suing will eventually get the bill! Alan what do you know about fishing rights?

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That is a damned good story and quite thought-provoking.

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greengum wrote:

[SNIP]I remembered awhile back while looking at the California State Constitution that the people have a Right to fish upon it's lands. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/const-toc.html article1 section 25. [SNIP]

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You for that corrected.

Love this story.

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I'm sure that if you pressed the issue further, some smartass official willargue that fishing is free if you are fishing from a public pier. In other words, your right is meaninglessunless you are standing on a man-made structure paid for, typically, with your taxes.

How's that for twisted?

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I just emailed Rep Jon Woods of Arkansas on the issue if that will be the case in Arkansas. Hopefully he will have an idea or knows someone who does. Arkansas will have the vote to make fishing a constitutional right in 2010.

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/read.aspx?id=4735#

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The senate joint resolution 3 bill link doesn't work I would have liked to have read it. I guess the same question could be posed for hunting as well. Let me know if they e-mail you back, I am really interested on how all this works.

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Yeah greengum, your right on !

It is our right I studyed this 10 years ago. That law was passed back in 1879

before they made the F&G codes their using today.

That came out around 1909 F&G code 1-89 Interestingly number 3 saids that any

laws passed before this code are still valid. Meaning that it still IS your right.

Just like OCing. however as time moved on we loss, what we don't exersize.

If many Californians fished with out buying permission, and pointed to the F&G Codes and The Cal- Constitution, we might be able to take our right back.

Freedom is a constant war, agains't evil Intentions. Money and Control ETC !

Yes it is your right to fish not just from a peir, but any water in the state of California

Yeah Article 1, section 25 "Right to fish". Cal- Consitution.

Robin47

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By the way I forgot, the only lagitemate law they can inforce according to the Cal-Constitution is "The season when you can fish and how many of the differant spieces you can catch".

Robin47

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I did some research and thumbed through some books that I have, and I think I came up the first time the government required people to ask permission to fish. According to Howard Zinn's book (a peoples history of the United States, required reading in most Kalifornia colleges.) the first fishing regulations were imposed on native Americans by local fisheries to increase profits through legislation. The strange part is I discussed this with a friend of mine who is part Native American and he told me that he never needs a license because of his race. (he lives in Colorado)

According to Micheal Badnarik (former Presidential candidate Lib. party) in his online Constitution class, most licenses were brought into action right after the civil war to restrict African Americans after they were free. He quoted Blacks Law book circa 1870 that the first marriage license was created if an African American and a white person wanted to "intermarriage". The same goes for gun permits. The first gun regulation was enacted after the civil war because according to Mr. Badnarik " The white people didn't think it would be a good idea that all freed slaves have the Right to have a gun. They might be a little pissed off."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...constitution+class+by+michael+badnarik&hl=en#

I know that I have brought up race in both examples. It is not my intention to stir up any group against another. I am simply pointing out were my research has taken me. Unfortunatly times were different then. I know this isn't supposed to be a forum for political discussion either but I wanted to refference where I was getting my information from like the video I linked and the book I listed. I simply want to know how and when we lost all these Right!!:banghead: Like this website says "A Right Unexercised is a Right Lost" I also don't know where to go from here to fix our Rights from being hijacked from us. Maybe I'm acting like a nerd and this is all a waste of time but I find this stuff fascinating. I have a few more stories like the fishing one that pertain to our Rights I might post at a future time. If I have broken any of the forum rules it was not done on purpose, and please PM me if of any infractions.

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greengum wrote:

The strange part is I discussed this with a friend of mine who is part Native American and he told me that he never needs a license because of his race. (he lives in Colorado)

He quoted Blacks Law book circa 1870 that the first marriage license was created if an African American and a white person wanted to "intermarriage".

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These are both excellent points. The first one seems to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. One race can do something and another race cannot? Totally bogus.

The right to marry isn't something I've thought about before (outside of the right of homosexuals to marry), but it seems like the state shouldn't have anything to do with it. A right is a right, and surely a state couldn't deny a marriage license to any normal couple (except for related people, and apparently, people of the same sex), so why is there a license anyway. This is similar to our right to bear arms since felons and mentally deficient people can't get firearms, but everybody else cannot be denied the ability to acquire one (well...soon thanks to the coming incorporation).

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Excellent thread and posts Greengum.

Much like our carry laws, I think you'll find that the vast majority of crimes created ('created', that is, by the passage of new laws) since the civil war are the direct result of racism or similar forms of hateful bigotry toward particular groups.

Gun crimes
Drug crimes
Marriage regulations
(Pretty much anything designed to prohibit behavior or to create a tax.)
etc, etc, etc.

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The right can be regulated. Here's what it says:

You may not think that licenses and fees are reasonable "conditions" but I'll bet that's where they fall.

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Missed reading the part where it saids", " And no law shall ever be passed making it a Crime".

So I am still right taking the whole paragrafe, in context.

" A licence" Is needing "Permission" to do something.

Remembering this Constitution of Cal was make in 1879, and the "Conditions"

were" how many fish you can catch of a certain speices, no "licence was in there mind".

Refer to the above" No Crime" ! Robin47 :lol:

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bigtoe416 wrote:

greengum wrote:

The strange part is I discussed this with a friend of mine who is part Native American and he told me that he never needs a license because of his race. (he lives in Colorado)

He quoted Blacks Law book circa 1870 that the first marriage license was created if an African American and a white person wanted to "intermarriage".

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These are both excellent points. The first one seems to be a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. One race can do something and another race cannot? Totally bogus.

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A little misleading, that isn't a race issue it is a treaty issuewith sovereign nations.

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We I guess you could say "We Were Sovereign" till this is signed in December !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ll0cvUfcBw

Robin47 :banghead:

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Robin47 wrote:

Yeah greengum, your right on !

It is our right I studyed this 10 years ago. That law was passed back in 1879

before they made the F&G codes their using today.

That came out around 1909 F&G code 1-89 Interestingly number 3 saids that any

laws passed before this code are still valid.

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Can you give me a link to the F&G code? I can't find that section.

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http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.html/fgc_table_of_contents.html sections 700-714 are very interesting. For a fee based on your age (see section 714) you can get a lifetime license!

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coolusername2007 wrote:

greengum wrote:

They gave me a number to call in Sacramento to the head noob in charge of fish and game. Spoke briefly to the lady who answers his phone then he got on the phone after a short time on hold. I explained my question to him and his response was what I had expected. "Listen smart ass I am not a constitutional lawyer but if you are caught fishing without a license you will be fined" then he hung up on me. So much for our state officials working for us.

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I would say you got schooled on how things work here in the PRK. When it comes to taxing thesubjects in this state you better just back off mister!

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Typical arrogance for California Fish & Game. You should see the crap they pull, and the attitude they give, in regards to ferret ownership and legalization here.