Freedom1Man
Regular Member
Do you have a right to fly a plane? Operate a nuclear sub? Or a 7000lb vehicle at 85 mph? How about a 3000 lb vehicle at 10mph? Is it a natural right to operate a cruise ship across the ocean? ( a row boat yes just like a you can a bicycle). Some are going to scream appeal to emotion or some other fancy term for a an argument.
The result is the population understands that if you want to drive a piece of heavy equipment (is say 2 to 3 tons is heavy) then you need a license. Said license is to make sure you understand. Basic traffic laws that are designed to safely manage the couple millions vehicles on the road. Have you ever been to some place like Iraq? Where they have no rmv or license process? Try downtown Baghdad at rush hour. Its crappy for many reasons.
The legal reason is simply that you are in a contract to receive your license. Period. You may hate it and think its unconstitutional. I'll say the same thing then you can drive unlicensed get caught in a state in the northeast and fight it on grounds of your right to travel.
I'll be the first (before anyone votes stories about their dismissals) to tell you the courts don't give a fig about unlicensed operation. I've lost count how many I've cited and there's never been a conviction. They dismiss along with duis and everything else. Now suspended license..... I've had a guy serve time on that one (based on another open case). Point is you need a license. To not have a license is illegal. We can discuss if that's how it should be all we want but it still is.... good luck guys be safe
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When was the government granted the power to convert a right in to a privilege?
The Wright brothers needed no license to fly.
Driving is defined as a commercial activity in Title 18 USC.
If I did not have the right to use the roads in the way they were intended then why were they built using money that I first earned?
As to flying, where did the government get the authority to turn flying into a privilege?
If I walk down the roads exercising my rights I can be, and have been, harassed by the police. I have to deal with sidewalk closures, regulated road crossings, jay walking charges (not ever been charged but they are on the books), and more. So if walking is a right then how can I be ticketed for walking along an interstate freeway?
I have the natural right to captain a sailing vessel if I so choose without the requirement of any government granted license (from my home country), permission can be required to sail into foreign ports but that is upon the port to determine.
As for flying, if I don't cause damage to the property of another then the government has no business telling me what I can or cannot do.
If I was doing it commercially to sell my services to the public THEN THAT is where regulation and licensing comes into play.