<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of <i>Jalopnik</i> (<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a news and opinion website about cars, the automotive industry, racing, transportation, technology, motorcycles and much more)</span> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://jalopnik.com/kook-suing-idaho-dot-because-ten-commandments-dont-say-1773549426?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link">http://jalopnik.com/kook-suing-idaho-dot-because-ten-commandments-dont-say-1773549426?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><p class="first-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"></p><div class="meta--pe" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; display: flex; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"></div><p></p><header class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><h1 class="headline hover-highlight entry-title js_entry-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 40px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; word-break: break-word;"><a href="http://jalopnik.com/kook-suing-idaho-dot-because-ten-commandments-dont-say-1773549426" data-id="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; font-family: ProximaNovaCond, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px;">Kook Suing Idaho DOT Because Ten Commandments Don't Say He Needs A License</a></h1></header><p class="first-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Peter Jensen of Athol, Idaho has very cleverly noticed that the Ten Commandments hardly mention <em style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: inherit;">anything </em>about needing a driver’s license to operate a car. <a href="http://www.krem.com/news/local/kootenai-county/athol-man-sues-state-employee-citing-law-of-moses/149943451" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">According to TV station KREM</a>, Jensen only recognizes the Ten Commandments as law, so as a result, he has no real license plate on his unregistered Ford Expedition. That’s also why he’s suing the Idaho Transportation Department for $5.6 million dollars.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s actually more specific than that; he’s suing the particular employee that had to send him the letter reminding him that according to the state of Idaho, all his driving privileges were revoked, and he wants that $5.6 million in gold and silver coins, because he thinks normal U.S. currency is “a fiction.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jensen notes that the Bible has nothing to say about licensing a car or driving, and<a href="http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/idaho/man-sues-itd-employee-cites-mosaic-law/154640085" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;"> goes on to say</a> that</span></p><div class="js_ad-mobile-dynamic" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; padding: 1.12rem; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px; clear: both; overflow: visible; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I have a constitutional right to drive freely without restriction, so I shouldn’t have to get a driver’s license, vehicle registration, so forth.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Which is a bit strange, since I’m not sure how confident the Founding Fathers were that <a href="http://jalopnik.com/5923086/the-usa-could-have-had-a-tank-to-fight-the-revolutionary-war#_ga=1.105018571.939172841.1359888224" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Cugnot’s 1769 steam v</a>ehicle would catch on like it did, but you know, whatever.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jensen’s Expedition currently sports a license plate that reads</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; padding: 1.12rem; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px; clear: both; overflow: visible; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>SET-APART TO YAHUWEH (Zecharia 14:20)</i></span></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I looked up <a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/14-20.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">Zecharia 14:20</a>, and here’s what it says:</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; padding: 1.12rem; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px; clear: both; overflow: visible; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><em style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar.</em></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ohhhhhhhh, I see what he’s saying. That all makes <em style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: inherit;">total</em> sense now. Of course he doesn’t have to license his car or pay registration or get a driver’s license or anything like that, because it says that the bells of the horses will have that holiness unto the Lord, and the pots will, um, be like, um, altar bowls, and, he, uh, um. Shit. Wait, this all seemed so clear like a minute ago.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Did I mention the bells? And the pots?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jensen says he wants to “identify [himself] as being separate from the laws of this nation,” and instead only lives by the Mosaic Law as set in the Bible.</span></p><div class="js_ad-mobile-dynamic" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This guy, of course, is a loon, and even if he feels that government laws <a href="http://www.krem.com/news/local/kootenai-county/athol-man-sues-state-employee-citing-law-of-moses/149943451" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;">“are really fiction, so I didn’t feel accountable to them,”</a> he lives in the state of Idaho, whether he admits it or not. Also, he’s not even correct Biblically, since the Book of Galifracians 32:7 clearly states</span></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-style: none; padding: 1.12rem; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px; clear: both; overflow: visible; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the coming of the time of carriages compelled to motion by fire is at hand, take unto the tents of the Department of Transportation the gold coins they demand, and wait ye in lines until thy eyes cry tears, and thy rend thou garments from rage and haste.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also, blessed are the carriages that soothe their heat with aether, and that place their iron fire-barrels at the rear, causing the rearmost wheels to propel.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 29px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 27.26px; max-width: 636px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That seems pretty clear to me. Pay up, dummy.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; margin: 0px auto 1.25rem; word-break: break-word; padding: 0px; line-height: 27.26px; max-width: 636px;">---------------------------------</p></blockquote></div><div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></div></body></html>