Start with Title 40 of the Georgia laws.  It does not take a microscopic examination to realize that the Georgia Legislature has NEVER moved against the public's right to use the highway.  I spent ten or fifteen minutes looking and one of the cutest things I found is four words lined up and described as having the same meaning:  trafficking, operating, driving, transporting, not necessarily in that order, but that which they all mean is what one may do with the "commercial license" offered under section (I believe "section" is what they call it) 5 of Title 40.

The Legislature can not repeal laws that are in conflict with the right to travel that have never been there.  Think about the down the road implications of allowing a bill like HR 875 to come to a vote.  That thought, that the people's fiduciaries could actually have an option to vote on whether to continue the fraud against the fundamental right to travel, or not, is an obsenity of the first class, in itself.

I have written to the veteran law maker who sponsors HR 875 to suggest that there is a problem with asserting that at some moment in Georgia history the legislature made a hostile move against the people's right to travel.  To be precise, I said that to make that assertion is to effectively claim that the government, itself, is a villain and owes reparation to the people.  Taking that view of the situation, why doesn't the bill have any reference to remedy for accumulated wrongs and billions of dollars ripped off over the years?  What about the trucking industry that has been skating, and the insurance cartel that has been exploiting the captive market of ignorant travelers?

What made Bobby Franklin sensitive to this issue in 2010, after being in the legislature since 1996?  That is the question that needs a blue ribbon panel's investigation.  Is he being leaned on by neighbors, is there a law suit against the DMV, in other words why now, when the issue has been there for too long.

Cut the crap and look below the surface.  Something is up.  And California never had a law regulating the people's right to travel either.

Richard L. Koenig