This graphic appears in the lawsuit in department of safety to halt the Eye of Sauron operation. It explains the two types of travel. There’s travel for pleasure and comfort on the left, and merchant transportation on the right, a subcategory. On the left, common law rights exercise. On the right, regulable and taxable activity not by right, but by privilege.

Commissioner Jeff Long wickedly oppresses the citizenry in Tennessee by fraudulently alleging all use of automobiles has to be in commerce under the trucking statute at T.C.A. §65-15-101 et seq. (Photo DOSHS)

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024 — I have begun drafting perhaps the most important case of all that forces the law to work in our favor and against mass fraud by officials in Nashville.

Right now I am in three cases with revenue commissioner David Gerregano to topple his fraud of “mandatory insurance.” In the third case filed in this scandal, I include Jeff Long, commissioner of safety.

David Gerregano is Tennessee revenue commissioner involved in a blatant fraud — enforcing the financial responsibility law as if it were a compulsory insurance law. (Photo department of revenue)

Mr. Long is already in my view for this biggest-of-all actions that will force the issue of the state’s longest-running fraud against its own people. I have sent him — twice now — checks for F$50 to obtain the motor carrier permit that I am required to have under the carrier statute at T.C.A. § 55-12-103, exemptions. He hasn’t cashed the check and sent me the permit. He has not returned my check with a letter of explanation telling me I’m not liable to get the permit.

Private use, commercial use

If Tennessee commissioners of revenue and safety are correct, and if there is no private use of the road, and if everyone on the road has to be there in commerce, and everyone is a trucker, then it stands to reason that everyone has to get the motor carrier permit and be part of the trucking industry because everyone with a motor vehicle is in fact a carrier. In other words, if Gran’ma has to get a driver’s license, she has to get the permit to be a carrier, because every motor vehicle in the definitions is a freight motor vehicle, and every motor vehicle is subject to Title 65, carriers.

I drafted the abstract of the case this week. I turned in my sur-reply brief to the hearing officer Brad Buchanan in David jonathan Tulis v. department of revenue, docket No. 23-004.

The new case will probably go into the anti-corruption court where on Nov. 1 I filed my first case. The case is styled State of Tennessee ex rel. David Jonathan Tulis v. David Gerregano, commissioner of revenue, and Jeff Long, commissioner of safety. It’s a mouthful, but I am effectively prosecuting these two for fraud in the name of the state, in the office of “relator.”

This court is created for anti-corruption purpose, conveniently letting people sue state officials for breach of law in their home counties. It’s name is wonderfully bland: The 3-judge panel. It was created by a law and began operation in 2021, each panel called into being by the supreme court on the filing of a case.

The swamp of illegal activity in Nashville is at least knee-deep. It stinks to high heavens. The people are abused here in Tennessee and also they are abused across the country. The UT system is involved in bioweapons research, according to David Martin. The state runs a sovereign wealth fund — tax free — in violation of numerous provisions of the state constitution preventing the state from investing in private business.

The case in view for me is the commercialization of all travel, the converting of the right of movement by automobile into commerce subject to state regulation under the trucking law.

The right of free movement is no less protected in our constitution as the right of free speech, the rights of religion, or free assembly, and many others. 

Vex, oppress the people

The parasitical system lets the state vex and oppress the people The carrier law is misused because it puts the population under commercial servitude and commercial government. The citizenry is not generally involved in the trucking trades. They use cars and autos for private purposes or private business. But they are by fraud and deceit converted into bread for profit and for serving the police-industrial complex, with its courts, jails, public buildings and oversized constabularies.

In my case within the department of revenue, Cmsr. Gerregano has committed himself to denying constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Specifically, the rights in free egress and ingress, the exercise of rights on the public road, with refusal of recognition that people might be on the road for private purposes apart from power to police or the power to tax.

Using their own weight to topple them

My future case will use what I’m learning in my current battles to free people in Tennessee from swampthings in great office towers in Nashville. 

Commissioners’ position is that no private travel exists, that all use must be commercial. If that is true, revenue and safety must be consistent down to the last letter of the law. If it’s true that Granma cannot use the road without a driver license and her car registered in commerce, then she has to get the motor carrier permit if she is not exempt.

The momentum within that argument is tremendous. Can the people use it against the shysters? I Gran’ma is not on the exempt list at § 65-15-103, with her car and her Class D driver license, and she is in one of  “any motor vehicles” at § 65-15-106, department of safety powers, there’s no way she can avoid getting a permit at § 65-15-107, interstate permits?

It is unlawful for any motor carrier, contract hauler, or exempt for-hire motor carrier to use any of the public highways of this state for the transportation of persons or property, or both, in interstate or intrastate commerce, without first having received a permit from the department or from any state designated as the base jurisdiction state for that carrier pursuant to 49 U.S.C. § 11506 as amended by § 4005 of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Violators are subject to penalty pursuant to § 65-15-113

Tenn. code ann. § 65-15-107(a)

Cockroach inside the armor

Already I have demanded of Mr. Long a permit, and submitted a check for $50 with my request. I’ve done it twice, in good faith, to avoid being arrested on the road for not having said permit. I inserted this cockroach into a chink in Mr. Long’s armor, where it works to increase the decomposition and rottenness oozing out from behind the door of that office.

If everybody has to be in commerce and everybody has to be a motor carrier in a motor Carrier in a freight motor vehicle, then why does the soccer mom not have to get the motor carrier permit to haul people in her car even though they are not passengers merely guests or occupants? 

Reply brief by David — Tulis v. DOR 

Department’s reply in support of its summary judgment plea

If the soccer mom has to get registered and a license, on what basis is she not required to get the permit? I assure you, she’s not on the exempt list, which excludes many “exclusive” uses of vehicles ranging from newspaper delivery, petroleum delivery, airport limos, hearses, sedans, cabs or “Vehicles hauling ore, sand, gravel and other unprocessed products of the soil.”

Do you see where I’m going with this line of thinking?

Today I lay down a challenge to the begrizzled and shaggy Gnome Librarian Edward Soloe, puffing on a cigarette with his bathroom shower curtain in the background as he ducks in that room to take a video call at his apartment in Alcoa. Show me that I’m not on the exempt list in my use of my 2000 Honda Odyssey minivan.

If I’m not, and if I can’t get the permit, I’m going to have to force Kommissar Long to give it to me, and take my F$50.