Bucker of systems
Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:20 pm
We recently moved, and now the better half is trying to get me to change the address on my drivers license. Now, of course I'm going to do this, however, I said I don't really have to, because there is no state statute that requires me to change the address on my license. She replies that they (the State Patrol) would like a person to do it within 10 days of moving. I then looked up the statute in question which verbatim is
which mentions nothing of changing your address on your drivers license itself. She says, "Why do you always have to buck the system?"
Which eludes to the point of this post. I'm not bucking the system. The State Patrol is bucking the system by voicing their wants and desires as if they were law. It is not my responsibility to appease the desire of any bureaucracy, and I find it ridiculous that uniformed and armed agents of said bureaucracy feel the need to pass off those wants and desires in a fashion that makes people feel like they will be penalized in some way if they do not comply.
Am I a bucker of systems? I follow the law. The speed limit says 65, and I drive it. If I'm going 70 and get pulled over, I don't complain or whine or curse, I know that I broke the rules and am paying the price. We as citizens have some form of control over our government, albeit small, in the voting booth. This precipitates our still smaller control over the laws that are written or repealed. However, just because we have some say in what our congress does, doesn't mean we have any say in what the bureaucracies of that government want or desire.
Why is it that for some reason people feel the need to comply with agencies like the DOT, or DOE, or DNR when their requests are not backed up by written law? Why is it that someone like me who doesn't feel so enamored with shiny badges and men with guns is a bucker of systems for pointing out that as a free man I do not have to comply with demands made above and beyond written law? (This doesn't apply to blanket laws, like obstructing an officer for instance, there's no state statute that says I can't sing at the top of my lungs during a traffic stop, but I could be obstructing an officer by doing so).
If a governmental bureaucracy is allowed to issue wants or desires, they are influencing the letter of the law outside the constitutional checks and balances. They are enforcing restrictions without the electorates approval, and as far as I'm concerned committing toletarian action by doing so, no matter how minor it seems.
Opinions?
Whenever any person, after applying for and receiving registration plates, moves from the address named in the application for the registration plates or when the name of the licensee is changed by marriage or otherwise, the person shall within 10 days notify the department in writing of the old and new address or of such former and new names and of all registration plate numbers held.
which mentions nothing of changing your address on your drivers license itself. She says, "Why do you always have to buck the system?"
Which eludes to the point of this post. I'm not bucking the system. The State Patrol is bucking the system by voicing their wants and desires as if they were law. It is not my responsibility to appease the desire of any bureaucracy, and I find it ridiculous that uniformed and armed agents of said bureaucracy feel the need to pass off those wants and desires in a fashion that makes people feel like they will be penalized in some way if they do not comply.
Am I a bucker of systems? I follow the law. The speed limit says 65, and I drive it. If I'm going 70 and get pulled over, I don't complain or whine or curse, I know that I broke the rules and am paying the price. We as citizens have some form of control over our government, albeit small, in the voting booth. This precipitates our still smaller control over the laws that are written or repealed. However, just because we have some say in what our congress does, doesn't mean we have any say in what the bureaucracies of that government want or desire.
Why is it that for some reason people feel the need to comply with agencies like the DOT, or DOE, or DNR when their requests are not backed up by written law? Why is it that someone like me who doesn't feel so enamored with shiny badges and men with guns is a bucker of systems for pointing out that as a free man I do not have to comply with demands made above and beyond written law? (This doesn't apply to blanket laws, like obstructing an officer for instance, there's no state statute that says I can't sing at the top of my lungs during a traffic stop, but I could be obstructing an officer by doing so).
If a governmental bureaucracy is allowed to issue wants or desires, they are influencing the letter of the law outside the constitutional checks and balances. They are enforcing restrictions without the electorates approval, and as far as I'm concerned committing toletarian action by doing so, no matter how minor it seems.
Opinions?
