If you want to be effective in fighting against government bureaucrats who try to usurp your Rights via intimidation and trickery, you must carefully pick and choose your own battle and the battleground. If you try to fight every rule, you will eventually be worn to a frazzle and defeated. To avoid such a defeat, you must opt to be a winner and that means you cannot play a sucker's game.
Obviously there are numerous injustices and battles to be fought. What is your area of expertise? Are you on solid ground to carry out the battle? Can you afford the fight --- to win?
If you are never stopped by a traffic cop, you might do well to fight the idea that driver's licenses are compulsory. Since you are seldom stopped, you must be a cautious driver who stays within the scope of the traffic laws. If you are stopped, you are on solid ground to oppose the rule. However, if you get tickets every week or month, you would do better to challenge some other rule. With all those tickets to your discredit, any judge would order you to refrain from driving without a driver's license in your possession -- and it would be a valid court order.
You must be aware of exactly what you are doing if you decide to challenge the rules in any area. Do not react in a knee-jerk fashion because you were unaware of the situation. Plan your attack deliberately and carefully. You must know all the laws and rules relating to the arena of your battle. You cannot be expert on all the tactics and rules, so limit your fight to something you know. Learn all about the subject and your opponents. Then, declare war!
You must recognize that you are not alone in wanting to fight injustice. Others will also be fighting back. Give them your support whenever you can and resist whenever you can. Sometimes you can resist easily without creating a major battle for yourself. When someone asks you for personal information, especially your Social Security number, and it really is none of their business -- you can do two things: Either tell them it is none of their business or give them false information. The information seekers are almost immune to your insults, so you can really screw them up with incorrect information. Make sure that you DO NOT give the name of another person who you know exists. That could be construed as impersonation and have further complications. Also, if the purchase you are making involves a warranty of some type, keep in mind that you might need to prove your identity to get the item fixed or replaced. Usually a warranty is useless. If you read it, you will find that you must send the product back to some distant city, in the original packing box, at your expense and include a few bucks for a handling charge. If you figure out the costs of renting storage space for all those boxes, the cost of shipping it and the few bucks, it is cheaper to toss it in the waste basket and buy a new item. NEVER give false information to a police officer -- you can politely refuse to give him certain information, but it is illegal to give him false information.
Your Right to Privacy almost always exceeds the rights of anyone to have information about you.
Naturally, there are times when you will not be sure about giving out false information --- such as when a police officer asks you questions. You have a Right to know the purpose for his questions, so ask. If there is no official purpose, then tell him whatever you like. If his reasons are official, you could be cited for giving false information to an officer in the performance of his duty --- so, refuse to give him your Social Security number. It is not required and he has no authority to demand it. If the person asking is the clerk at a store where you just made a purchase, give them all the false information you like. It will screw up their computers and might discourage such information gathering in the future. A few states have laws that make it fraud to attempt to get a refund for products using false information.
The system of rules the bureaucrats have created are entangling. They have been at it a long time and many people have accepted it as a way of life. Suppose you decide that the rule requiring vehicle emissions tests is invalid because it is discriminatory and exempts some vehicles. You refuse to have your car tested until the exceptions are removed. Now you try to pay your license tax and get the little tab for the current year. The bureaucrats might not let you have the license plate or tab until you comply with their unrelated rules, as mandated by DOT money.
Frustrating, isn't it?
Go back another step. Why are you licensing your car? No, it is not a law! It is a rule. You must pay the tax on the vehicle --- that is a law! The fact that you post your license on the car is just outward proof that the tax has been paid. The use of the license number for identification purposes is incidental to the tax being paid. You cannot be forced to surrender your right to move about in a safe manner in your own vehicle in exchange for proof of payment of a license fee and then have additional discriminatory rules (emissions testing) made as a condition of using your vehicle. To force you to submit to such rules would violate your right to be treated equally.
If the public health and safety necessitates emissions testing, then no vehicles can be exempted. If any potential offenders are exempt, then it is a discriminatory rule --- not a law.
The bureaucrats can establish rules for the issuance of the privilege licenses. But your license plate is actually just a receipt to show you paid the tax on the vehicle. You can seal the receipt in plastic and paste it inside your rear window to make sure the entire world knows you paid the tax, but the local cop might still pull you over to find out why you do not have a current license tab or plate. In this case, the cop becomes the buffer.
Resisting such an established system is not going to be easy. You are better off fighting back now, while some of our Rights are still recognizable than to wait until our nation is completely converted to a totalitarian Police State. Then the only way to fight back will be to put your life on the line.
Getting information out to others is a very effective way of fighting back. When you hear someone say anything to the effect that "we should have the right to...," point out to them that they already have that Right and government only has the limited authority that WE, THE PEOPLE, have granted to it. You can write letters to the editor of the daily and weekly newspapers in your community. Contrary to what many people think, newspapers are seldom over-loaded with letters to publish. The editors love to get them and survey figures indicate that 25 percent of the subscribers read the letters to the editor almost every day. That is a great forum for expressing your views and making people aware of how they must protect freedom by breaking some of the control rules.
The Internet is a great tool for informing the world! If you are on the internet, get this information out. Let everyone know that this book is free for the download just by typing in www.breaktherulesandwin.com, or the author's name www.jayevenson.com.