Notice to Haslam: Staff personally liable if not fix traffic stop rules
Administrative notice to public officials about the law denies them, when they are sued, the good faith defense of “I didn’t know” and lack of intent. (Photo David Tulis) Gov. Bill Haslam at an Easter egg roll at the governor’s mansion in Nashville. (Photo governor’s office) Dear Gov. Haslam, I am writing you to follow up […]
City urged restrain cops, obey TN traffic law, avoid abusing minorities
The Chattanooga News Chronicle, a progressive voice for African-Americans, is open to hearing more about my efforts to give notice to officials about limits on the Tennessee traffic law. (Photo David Tulis) A chronic abuse by Tennessee’s white establishment against minorities is the enforcement of traffic laws against people who are not subject to those […]
Driver license racket operates in realm of administrative law
A backhoe strips old tarmac from the street in front of the Chattanooga News Chronicle on M.L. King Boulevard in Chattanooga in the same way transportation administrative notice strips from the roadway an encrustation of noxious police practices working against the pre-1938 liberties of traveling Tennesseans. G’s Detroit Sausages shares the building. I sense a […]
Dayton mayor Louallen debates journalist on limits of police authority
David Tulis gives a transportation administrative notice Feb. 23, 2018, to Gary Louallen, mayor of Dayton, Tenn., a town in which a few people use the public roadway without state permit but face arrest or citation is stopped. (Photo Facebook) Dayton is the seat of Rhea County, Tenn., where a courthouse stands as a tourist […]
Transportation administrative notice Tennessee
Chattanooga police officers in two cruisers enforce Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated against a man on state highway 153 who is, by rebuttable presumption, a driver and an operator of a motor vehicle — but who may just be a private traveler caught in a legal snare set up by local officials in […]
How Tennesseans could throw off shackles of police state imposed on highways
Deputy Mark Kimsey of the Hamilton County sheriff’s department might have less enforcing to do against innocent travelers if Tennessee took up a reform proposed in New Hampshire that explicitly separates private automotive travel from for-profit and commercial uses of the public right of way. (Photo Facebook) A bill in the general assembly of New […]
State obliterates landmark, rips poor via ‘driver licensing’ regime
Most users of the road are private, but Tennessee imposes a fiction upon them: That no one may use the roadway unless they are common carriers for hire, subject to licensure and taxation, like the trailer truck hauling Target goods. (Photo WikiCommons) The Bible on which governors swear to uphold the constitution forbids the moving […]
Where does state get standing to prosecute you in criminal case?
Tennessee highway patrol officers enforce the commercial transportation law on the state’s highways. (Photo THP) Tennessee and other state governments have a paternalistic view of citizens and no longer serve them representatively to protect their rights. Rather, they seek to lord it over the people for their own good by holding them in commercial subjection. […]
Go to hell, judges tell Hispanics, others seeking to use TN roads freely
Basil Marceaux of Soddy-Daisy, right, and Jay Hirsch of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., discuss the Hirsch gun and travel case after oral arguments in Nashville. Like Mr. Hirsch, Mr. Marceaux has been in court dozens of times, asserting constitutional rights to travel and to be free of state roadblocks. (Photo David Tulis) An impoverished independent businessman vows […]
Roddy’s 1st temptation: Re-militarization of police under Trump
The group Concerned Citizens for Justice expressed alarm over police militarization prior to the naming of David Roddy as Chattanooga police chief. (Photo Concerned Citizens for Justice) The seeming commitment of the Andy Berke administration toward police reform comes under a temptation days after city council voted to approve the nomination of David Roddy as […]