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Subject: IP: 18-year-old rebels against being numbered
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 19:43:27 -0500
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YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ...
18-year-old rebels
against being numbered
Wins right to vote
without Social Security registration
By David M. Bresnahan
Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily.com
LAS VEGAS, NV -- Even though government
agencies tried their best to stop him, an
18-year-old will vote for the first time in the
Nov.
3 election.
Last July, Joshua Hansen, 18, went to register to
vote. A few days later he received a letter in the
mail from Kathryn Ferguson, registrar of voters
of Clark County, Nevada, rejecting his
application.
Hansen had refused to supply a Social Security
number on his application and Ferguson rejected
him as a voter.
Hansen says he does not have a Social Security
number, driver's license, or government issued ID
card. He says that he never will. He also refuses
to pay income tax.
He defends his stands on these issues based on
his study of the U.S. Constitution and his
religious beliefs. He says he is willing to pay any
price and will not give in to government
pressure.
Hansen takes his right to vote seriously. So
seriously that he took Ferguson to court to prove
his point. With the help of his uncle, attorney
Joel
F. Hansen, he got the court to order Ferguson to
permit him to vote.
He belongs to the First Christian Fellowship of
Eternal Sovereignty, which he says is a political
religion based on Christianity and the
Constitution which people of all denominations
may join.
"It's a fellowship of anybody who's Christian
who really exercises their Christian beliefs within
politics," explained Hansen in a phone interview
with WorldNetDaily.
"The Social Security number was much like the
mark of the beast talked about in the "Book of
Revelations." One of the main reasons is that it, I
mean you can't buy or sell without it, it's hard to
do a lot of business without it. Have you ever
tried to get a job without one, or voting or
anything? A lot of the stuff talked about in the
prophecy had come to life and I said, 'I don't
want one of those.'
"Everything around Social Security is a lie. I
don't
want any of the benefits from it and I don't want
to pay for it. The system's going bankrupt.
Anything I pay for I'll never see anyway. It's
blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional,"
explained Hansen.
Living without a Social Security number is a
challenge, but not a major problem for Hansen.
He has no bank account, works only for family
members who will pay him "under the table,"
refuses to get a driver's license, and won't pay
taxes. Recently he started his own Internet
consulting business.
He just finished high school this year and says he
has very few friends who believe as he does. He
belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints.
"Because of my political beliefs," says Hansen, "I
have a lot of trouble getting along at church with
a lot of my fellow members." The members of his
church believe in "The Articles of Faith," a
portion of it reads "We believe in . . . obeying,
honoring, and sustaining the law."
"They told me that the law said I had to have a
number," explains Hansen. "I said, 'This is kind of
stupid because all these numbers are obtained
through the identification I already have.' When
you get a driver's license or an ID card here,
basically you show them your birth certificate,
and to prove residency you write down on a little
paper what your address is and sign something
that says you're not lying, which is all you do on
a voter registration thing."
Ferguson didn't like Hansen's logic. She rejected
his application to vote. Hansen contacted many
elected officials for help. Some responded and
some didn't, but none were of much help so he
decided to take it to court.
"The Constitution of Nevada establishes who can
vote," explained Hansen. "If you're an idiot,
you're insane, and if you don't have residency
you can't vote. That's it."
Hansen filed a Writ of Mandamus in the Clark
County District Court. The purpose was to have
the court order Ferguson to register Hansen so he
can vote.
Nevada law states that the "County Clerk shall
require a person to submit official identification
as proof of residence and identity, such as a
driver's license or other official document before
registering him."
Hansen presented a diploma from high school
and a birth certificate, but Ferguson demanded a
Social Security card, driver's license, or a state
ID
card.
Hansen does not have those items and in his
petition to the court his attorney stated,
"therefore, he presented alternative identification
to the Registrar of Voters, but his right to
register
to vote was refused and denied by the county
registrar of voters."
Hansen was more surprised than anyone when
his petition was granted by the court. "I didn't
think I'd win," he said. On Oct. 19, the court
ordered Ferguson to register Hansen to vote, and
he now plans to cast his first ballot on Nov. 3.
This may be just the first of many battles ahead
for Hansen. He does drive a car, and does not
plan to get a license.
"The government has no right to regulate who
can and cannot drive unless they have proven
themselves to be a danger to the community and
have been convicted by 12 informed jurors,"
wrote Hansen in an e-mail message to
WorldNetDaily.
"Assuming that everyone is already a danger and
by telling us we must have a license to drive is
known better as 'prior restraint' and according to
the U.S. Supreme Court is unconstitutional."
Hansen also objects to the current law which will
implement a national ID card on Oct. 1, 2000. He
says that Congress passed the law using illegal
immigration control as the excuse.
"The even more ironic twist is that most of the
illegal immigrants coming here are filtering from
Mexico trying to reap the socialist benefits
offered
by the federal government. Welfare, government
schools, health care, social security, etc. If you
want to stop illegal immigration bring back the
American way of work hard and succeed as
opposed to show up and leech off the tax
payers," wrote Hansen.
He concluded his e-mail by saying, "There is
nothing they can ever do to make me surrender
my personal freedom, nothing. I don't know a lot
of people who exercise freedom to the point of
fanaticism I do. I will not pay federal income tax,
I will not be marked my their unconstitutional
anti-Christ numbers. I will not take any of their
socialist benefits. I will not bow before any
bureaucracy. I will not surrender my God-given
freedom to those bastards for any reason."
David Bresnahan is a contributing editor of
WorldNetDaily.com, and is the author of "Cover
Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception."
You
may e-mail him at [email protected]
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