Freely Traveling (without Getting in a Pickle)

 

Do you know who your sheriff is? How about the county (or city) chief of police? You may wish to make an appointment and visit them. Why?

If you are an American State National or Citizen, then it may behoove you to get to know them — and for them to get to know you. We Marylanders, who believe in our own people power, who participate in the “arduous task of self-government,” need to be forthright about our status and our actions.

One basic, constitutionally guaranteed right is the ability to freely travel upon our public roads. The Maryland Assembly, constituted according to the guidelines as provided through the research of Anna Maria Riezinger (aka Anna von Reitz), has developed what we call our Travel Notice. This is a multi-page document that we keep in our private conveyances as we travel about.

That document is designed to be presented to law enforcement officers (LEOs) at so-called “traffic stops.” That is, for being pulled over for some perceived infraction of the State of Maryland Vehicle Code. As nationals, and not U.S. citizens, we are foreign men and women who are not subject to their statutes. We have all executed and duly recorded our status. This action has been undertaken to establish ourselves and our foreign nationality. So the nuts and bolts of our travel should not come as a shock to law enforcement officials.

We have undertaken to provide written notice of who we are and what our intentions are as private nationals engaged in private, non-commercial travel. That notice has been mailed to all of the sheriffs within Maryland (and notice is also being sent to county and city police chiefs). Still, a personal, face-to-face visit is a way of being sure that we pose no threat or harm, and it doesn’t hurt to establish a certain familiarity with those tasked with ensuring that public safety and welfare is maintained on our roads.

When one is stopped by a LEO it is easy to become nervous and befuddled. After all, we have been raised in an environment of meek deference to authority, wherein LEOs are trained to be tough and intimidating to those they perceive are “lawbreakers.” Thus it is easy to lose one’s self-confidence and speak without thinking. One’s words must be carefully chosen so as not to accidentally “cede one’s jurisdiction.”

The first thing to know is that when an officer asks for your license and registration, he or she is making an offer to contract. American State Nationals and Citizens are trained to respond by saying, “I must respectfully decline your offer to contract. However, I am willing, on my own accord, to produce documents that establish my identity and right to travel freely.”

But hold that thought. Many of us freeze up in tense and intimidating situations. Thus the Travel Notice is designed to allow a traveler to simply present his- or herself without uttering a word. After all, this is a prime example wherein we must invoke our 5^th Amendment privilege against self-incrimination — and that can happen easily if and when we volunteer information that can be twisted (by “word magic”) against our penal interest.

And so, to play it safe, we are advised to simply and silently offer our Travel Notice. That Notice is made available to all Marylanders who are American State Nationals or Citizens by The Maryland Assembly. The fee is $15 plus a recording fee.

The complete Travel Notice consists of the following: 

1.  a short statement that essentially explains that we would rather remain silent, under advice of counsel;

2.  a one-page picture ID Notice that explains who we are, our foreign status, and the consequences of violating our right to freely travel;

3.  next is a Special Note to Law Enforcement meant to empathize with the officer, and to explain our motivations and intentions;

4.  then there is a two-page Notice to All LEOs, Supervisors and Commanders, which invokes our constitutional protections and informs them, in no uncertain terms, that we are not under their jurisdiction concerning any perceived infraction of a so-called “victimless crime”;

5.  this is followed by three-pages of cited United States Supreme Court cases establishing that Freely Traveling Upon Public Roads is a Constitutionally Guaranteed Right; that a Constitutionally Guaranteed Right Cannot be Converted into a Crime; and that Without Willful Intent to Violate the Law There is No Crime;

6.  Finally there is a one-page recitation of two Federal Code sections: 18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights. and 18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law, both of which are meant to dissuade the officer from any attempt to detain, arrest, or issue a citation in the event there is any remaining doubt as to that officer's proper course of conduct.

The Travel Notice is presented, along with our scannable credential card. The credential card enables the officer to verify who we are and examine the documents that establish our foreign national status.

By interfacing early with sheriffs and police chiefs and presenting our Travel Notice to them for their pre-inspection, we hope we are able to defuse “situations” that might otherwise easily develop at traffic stops. Our intention is to abide by the “rules of the road” and to be safe and considerate of others when traveling upon the public roads. If any of us abuse that protocol then those who do so should be ready to take responsibility.

But we do have good faith in how we are proceeding as we travel. We are adamant in believing that victimless “crimes,” that is, where no other person has incurred an injury to his or her person or personal property as the proximate cause of our travelling — such “crimes,” (any "violation" of the so-called motor vehicle code) are no crimes at all. That is what our common law informs us. And we live by the golden rule as embodied therein.

And so let it be known: that a constitutionally protected right cannot be converted into a privilege that then is licensed by the state. This mainly includes drivers licenses, tags, and registration. Come join us and rid yourself of the hassle, expense, and botheration of travel enslavement as conceived by the corporate State of Maryland. Join The Maryland Assembly as an American State National or Citizen and start living and traveling upon the land and soil jurisdiction as a responsible member of those committed to being free within a reconstructed constitutional republic. Rid yourself of the corporate service provider masquerading as a legitimate government and to kow-towing to their policy security enforcers.

It is our hope that, over time, law enforcement officials will come to realize their real and proper status. Sheriffs, especially, should be protecting the Constitution by shielding the people from any and all unlawful encroachments within the physical boundaries of their county or city jurisdictions; and police can start seeing their jobs more as officers of the peace. Rather than being primarily enforcers of “state policy” that protects the corporate service provider, they might seek to extend equal protection to the people, affording them the respect and dignity to which they are entitled as flesh and blood men, women and children. At the very least they should not interfere with our ability to travel freely. In this way, empathy with our cause might turn into solidarity, as in becoming one of us free Marylanders unbeholden to impositions by the corporate nanny state.