Cornelius J. McIver
[address]State Senator Mike Waugh
[address]June 12, 1999
Dear Mike,
Please find enclosed the latest correspondence regarding the social security requirement for obtaining a driver's license and my letter to the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.
I regret that I have not received any communication from you in response to either of my last letters dated February 14, 1999 & April 14, 1999. The only explanation I can fathom from your silence is that you simply refuse to treat this issue, or me, as serious. Perhaps you believe it is the citizens that serve the state and not the state that serves the citizens. I don't know how you feel, but regardless, I will not sacrifice my rights to live in Pennsylvania.
It is my right to live without a social security number. I am aware of the excessive power that government retains by being able to index its citizens, and I refuse to be so numbered. I doubt it can be honestly said that in the greatest, freest country in the world, it is the proper business of government to slap numbers on its citizens.
Please note that my auto insurance company wants to discontinue my insurance policy because I have no driver license. Would you or your other constituents feel safer driving or walking the roads knowing that I no longer have car insurance? If I really am hiding a dangerous driving history, it's all the more important that I have insurance. How can forcing people to drive without insurance be construed as serving the public good?
I will not have a number. I will suffer the loss of my car before I take on such a thing, and I would like to believe I am willing to suffer much more. If I am absolutely not permitted to live in Pennsylvania without a social security number, I will have to leave the state, as I need to drive in order to live. But I promise you that I will do everything in my power to exercise my right to live here, and I will do it with or without your acknowledgement of my efforts. I have a right to the road, no less so than my neighbors', and I will continue to exercise that right. Even if I must fight this alone, I will fight it, and I will exercise every lawful God-given power at my command to resist this obscene government bureaucracy.
I will continue to keep you updated as whim directs me, and I regret voting for you in the last election.
Sincerely,
[signed]
Cornelius J. McIver
Encl: copy, letter from PennDOT, dated April 26, 1999
Encl: copy, my letter to PennDOT, dated May 27, 1999
Encl: copy, my letter to Pennsylvania Insurance Department, dated June 6, 1999
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.