this story is quite hilarious.. I tell you, hippies are taking over....

Laura West claims the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper who stopped her “vessel” on the night of June 11 west of Lawrence had no right to arrest her.

She’s never had a driver’s license and doesn’t need one, West said as she represented herself Friday in Douglas County District Court.

“I was not operating a vehicle; I was exercising my right to travel,” West, 21, told Judge Robert Fairchild. “I was in a private vessel on a religious mission.”

West also said her vessel is her private dwelling.

West is charged with not having a driver’s license, improper vehicle registration, failure to dim headlights and obstructing the legal process, all misdemeanors. West was arrested and taken to the Douglas County Jail after it took 45 minutes to get her to step out of the van she was driving, Trooper Brady Flannigan said.

West was traveling with her partner, J.M. Sovereign: Godsent, and her 2-year-old daughter. West and Godsent, who testified as her only witness, said they were afraid of the trooper and his supervisor, who was called to the scene of the car stop at U.S. Highway 40 and the South Lawrence Trafficway. They made calls to 911 and claimed West was being kidnapped as she was arrested.

The couple, who were on their way to visit a friend in Lawrence when they were stopped, recorded the encounter with the troopers and submitted a CD of the recording to the judge.

According to Godsent and information he presented to reporters outside court, the couple belong to a group that claims the U.S. is not a country but a foreign corporation that has invaded America. They are concerned about implanted identification chips and say sovereign Americans are being forced to choose between God’s law and man’s law.

Godsent said the trooper was presented with a card after he stopped them. The card was labeled “Sovereign Civilian Police Observation Task Force.” By the trooper accepting the card he was accepting a contract to pay a $15,000 gold fee for each question he asked. Godsent said they will take the matter to court to get paid.

Meanwhile, West, who is free on $1,500 bond, will return to court Oct. 1, when Fairchild will announce his verdicts in the case. If found guilty, West could face fines and jail sentences. Fairchild wanted to make a decision on the case next week, but West wasn’t available then.









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this all happened after the wakarusa festival, or around that time..... this place seems to attract so many loonies and druggies..... it would have also been around the campgrounds too, on the west side of town...

 

That's the greatest story I've ever heard. Screw licenses, we're all entitled to exercise our right to travel! Hahaha. How funny!

 

well, they very well shouldn't be travelling on the corporations roads.

 

This was so awesome to hear because i want someone to come out of left field and totally upset the establishment. I hope that cop has to give the dude all the gold

 

I want to see this on the news. Oh.....I don't watch the news. Damn


But yeah I hope the copper pays up with the gold, that would be pricless

 

That story was hilariously funny...

Keep us updated on what happens with that story Ryan!

 

hahaha you should see the discussions in my local paper online.....

you cant make this shit up, thats why its so damned funny...... people are nuts. you should see this woman's photo! and her name is godsend.....how great........ I tell you, acid is not the greatest thing!

and yeah, kc...... she was travelling on government controlled and built roads....... they also dialed 911, which is controlled by the government...... and they want 15,000 dollars which is the government.....

 

oh yeah, it's all fine and good to rebel against the establishment and the taxes the pay for it, right up until you need it. pfft.

 

wow, i'd love to meet them

so i can steal there cards to give to peopel to claim my $15000 in gold

 

haha hey if they think they can do it then okay. it makes for great reading material.

card was labeled “Sovereign Civilian Police Observation Task Force.” <---- what is that?

 

basically: we're whack jobs who pretend we have power over the police, but really we look like a buncha fucking burnt out idiots who are dragging around a poor, innocent 2 year old.

 

That is freakin hilarious - I am going to follow this story...I want to know if they get their gold or not!

 

no, they will not get the gold. just work with me here.

 

lol.....ok, I'm on your side!

 

oh joy and kittens. the're half right in a way, except they totally miss the point that america itself, IS the 'invasion'. with or without rfid's which are in their infancy, as is america itself, compared to the ten thousand years people have been living here and making their own history before ever intering the collective immagination of hierarchist who only acknowledge their existence, like that of anyone other then themselves, as somehow standing between themselves and the blood wine.

the're also right in as far as the corporate mafia has usurped the political proccess of even that, but this, is as much home grown as otherwise. the only thing 'forign' about it is its total indifference to the soverignty of any nation, even this most powerful of all of them, which, to reiterate, has in recent years become thier puppet, as it may or may not have always been to some degree that of those of similar intrests from its very beggining as one.

the whole concept of soverignty of anything bigger then a very small village would be shere loonacy, were it not for the usefullness of physical infrastructure, and most of what people take for granted, just happening to be rather thoroughly dependent upon THAT.

so its loonie loonies vs vested loonies. when hasn't it been. this just makes it a combination of high styre with maybe midium high drama.

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though it may offer a partial explanation as to what someone was going on about to me about today - of which i hadn't the slightest clue at the time.

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(btw oakies, religeous right wing loonie oakies at that, while perhapse totally lovable BY hippies, do NOT equal hippies. if you want to make every word totally ambiguous, far be it from me to point out how totally useless doing so makes any sort of verbal communication)

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What's funny, they're right!