You can say you have the right to travel until you’re blue in the face but unless you can show a cop that you are the Sovereign, that you are with the Sovereign Authority and you are giving the orders, you’re gonna deal with paperwork.
We use a little contract offer for the answering of questions for the $15,000 gold fee for the service in the shape of a business card.
Now, upon contact, if that’s all you give him then he’s gotta enter it into evidence and accept the terms of the contract or give it back. So either way we win. Most of the time they just hand it back after a few minutes and say “thank you very much Mr. Godsent,. Have a nice day.” With an occasional “Here’s all of the money in my pocket and let me give you a hotel voucher too.” Or “Here’s a gas voucher for $20. That should get you to the State line.”
Back in 2007 we had just revised the book and published and we knew that we had to get across the country to bring this information and network to the rest of the country. We were living and traveling in an Oldsmobile Silhouette van.
We had no money, just the book, and the myspace, so we left California at the beginning of the tour season in May with bad plates, no registration, no insurance, no driver’s license and a 2-1/2 gallon gas can. We got stopped 6 times before we left NorCal and in one case, made the cops feel so bad about the stop, that all three of them reached deep into their pockets and gave up all the money they had. Not only that, but they went back to the station and wrote us up a hotel voucher.
But California is another planet altogether, what about the rest of the continent…
We departed on I-80 through Reno, and discovered something very interesting in Salt Lake City. Now let me tell you something about them Mormons, they’re not so bad: I learned a lot by rolling into their little paradise. First of all you’ve got to be a mathematician to get around in their town. In other words they’ve got their people trained up real good to behave like bees in a hive. After all their state logo is a beehive.
Moving on from Utah, we dropped down to I-70 via I-25 and visited Ft. Collins Colorado where I had beaten the pants off the DA back in 2005. In that case literally offered “my client”, the copyrighted fiction name on the docket of the court a plea-bargain from no registration, no driver’s license, and an unsafe lane change to unsafe lane change with court costs of $12.50. He even wrote on the final contract that the fine was to be paid in FEDERAL RESERVE BANK notes!Of course this was all for show and he never issued a warrant for failure to pay the court costs.
Back to the road, to make a long story short, we traveled to a different music festival in a different state every weekend, getting stopped at least 20 times. In total we got searched twice, let go with warnings both times, another gas voucher, only two minor arrests which turned out to be some really cheap publicity for the book and web-site. Paying a total of a $250.00 fine for a spot for the book in the 6:00 and 10:00 news in Lawrence, Kansas and the front page of the “B” section, we felt we got our I.O.U.’s worth. You can google “Lawrence Journal World unusual hearing” and see the fireworks.
You can visit the www.myspace.com/title4flag and www.youtube.com/title4flag to see the great commercial for the book that came out of “driving with hi-beams”.