Application for Passport

[Letterhead]

1-900-225-5674

August 29, 2000

Cornelius J. McIver
[my address]

Dear Mr. Mc Iver,

Before further consideration can be given to your request for passport services, you will need to submit additional documentation to further establish your identity. Therefore, in accordance with passport regulations, you are requested to complete the Supplemental Information Sheet and submit copies of personal documents in order to help confirm your identity. Please refer to the enclosed pages for the material requested. Failure to comply will result in a delay af any future requests.

This application is denied unless you adequately address the requirements stated above for issuance of a passport. If we do not receive a response within ninety (90) days, your application will be filed without further action.

PLEASE RETURN THIS LETTER WITH YOUR REPLY.

Sincerely,

[unsigned]

C. Pam Holliday
Reginal Director

To Customer: If you have any questis regarding this letter or your passport application, contact the National Passport Information Center at 900-225-5674 (TDD:900-225-7778), or 888-362-8668 (TDD:888-498-3648) with a major credit card. Customer Service Representatives are available Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., ET, excluding federal holidays. Also, for a wealth of passport and travel information, including where to apply, visit us at http://travel.state.gov

Enclosure(s):

ID List
Supplemental Form

I found it notable that the Department of State gives a referal 900 number to the "National Passport Information Center". A web check on that name revealed information at http://www.travel.state.gov/npicinfo.html.

According to that page, it is apparent the "National Passport Information Center" is not a government agency at all as the name suggests, but merely a private company contracted by the Department of State to field questions at the expense of the passport applicant. This could easily be a corrupt deal benefiting specific private persons through referals from the government, but the contract could have been legitimately awarded through a bidding process.

Still, the "NPIC" name deceives people into thinking they are contacting a government office, and the referral above leads people into thinking there is no other place they can go to seek proper information, which is certainly not the case.

I don't like it, but that's typical of what we find in government today.

This Web Page: http://www.cjmciver.org/free/passport1.shtml

All information presented here is done so under the protection of the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and article I section 2 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Furthermore, as established in the famous trial of William Penn in August 1670, and contrary to the unlawful instructions given by most American judges, in addition to judging the facts of a case, juries also have the right and duty to pass judgement on the law (meaning they may acquit a violator of the law if they believe the law in question is unconstitutional, immoral, just plain stupid, or if the penalty is deemed too harsh). Juries are also lawfully free to vote according to their conscience, above all other considerations.