LICENSING IS CHIPPING AWAY AT FREEDOM
The United States of America, home of the brave, land
of the free? This country was founded upon the ideal of free people taking
responsibility for their actions, participating actively in the political
process, being citizen statesmen, and women, and being self governing. The
following statement excerpted from the Washington State Constitution
expresses exactly what our framers envisioned for we the people;
"All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect
and maintain individual rights."
The U.S. Constitution guarantees that we would be able
to protect ourselves, and our property with the following words; "No person
shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of
law." Every household in the United States of America should openly
display, and study the Constitution before we have acquiesced all of our
rights and liberties away.
A license is a temporary, revocable permit issued by a governmental agency
to have something, or to do something that is otherwise illegal. If you
live in a city, town, municipality, county, or state that requires dog
licensing, then the act of dog ownership has been made illegal without
permission of government. A parallel to dog licensing is the licensing of
firearms in 1968 which effectively removed citizens of the United States
Second Amendment Right to keep and bear arms. Once we agree to license we
agree to give over our rights to the licensing agency that is empowered to
at any time remove the licensed object, or activity from us.
Some licenses are reasonable. To drive upon public streets, roads, and
highways your drivers license is proof of proficiency. Drivers licenses are
regularly revoked, or suspended for failure to show competency. It's
reasonable to license for the practice medicine, or law. Licensing has
been carried to the extreme in the USA. We supposedly live in a free
enterprise system, yet every business must be licensed. We must have a
license to marry, to fish, to hunt, to own firearms, which is how our
Constitutional right to keep and bear arms was undermined to the point of
illegality.
When we agree to license our dogs we agree to give over our ownership right
to the licensing agency, which can at any time revoke our use rights. We
grant them absolute control over our animals. They can come onto our real
property, and remove our transitory property (dogs) without due process of
law. Ostensibly cities, counties, or states which require licensing could
refuse to issue further licenses, and revoke the privilege of dog ownership.
Mandatory dog licensing was the initial step in removing dogs from our
ownership.
The secondary step was the introduction of breed specific dog laws that
limit, or prohibit the ownership of dogs based solely upon their breed. To
the inexperienced, or uneducated citizen BSL appears to be a way to control
dogs. Far from that simplistic view, it is government exerting control over
the rights of human beings to have the full use and enjoyment of his/her
property as is granted under the US Constitution. Breed specific dog
ordinances set up the owners of the named breeds for exceptional treatment
under law.
As citizens we are guaranteed equal treatment, and
equal protection. As owners of these breeds we are treated as though we
have committed a crime, again without due process of law. We are labeled as
being less responsible, less capable, not worthy of having equal rights of
those of our fellow dog owners whose breeds have temporarily escaped the
restrictions, or prohibitions. Are we not tax payers? Are we not property
owners? Do we not participate in our political processes? Are we secondary
citizens? If we do not stand up for ourselves we will all become slaves to
an out of control government.
In the limited , or restricted permission to own a "dangerous breed",
another license was brought to bear upon the dog owner, plus the added
burden of having to post an exorbitant surety bond, or liability insurance
that was unavailable.
All law is based upon supporting, and upholding the rights granted to us
under the Constitution. Laws must be able to stand up to the Constitutional
challenge. Local, state, and federal agencies have circumvented law by
initiating "regulations, ordinances, codes," etc., which we citizens blindly
agree to abide by, thus making these regulations, codes, and ordinances
enforceable. Once we comply, we must ever comply. Compliance is
agreement. If you have ever paid for and received a license to own a dog in
your local, and you refuse to re-license at the end of the period that the
license was issued you can be cited, and taken to Court. The Court can
sentence you for not continuing to abide by the agreement that you entered
into with the licensing agency.
Obviously the third and final step in removing our property rights in
animals is the complete ban on ownership. A retirement community in Florida
has already made the proposal. It was soundly trounced. The USA is not yet
ready for an all out ban. But the chipping away process is in full speed
ahead. Breed specific ownership ordinances have been with us for over
thirty years. It takes time for radical ideas to begin to sound
reasonable. They must be bolstered with heavy doses of propaganda. They
must be propped up with legal precedent. Most importantly they must be
acquiesced to by the people.
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