PERSONAL FOR:
Asbury W. Quillian
Commissioner, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
2300 West Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia

Ref:  a)  David Alan Carmichael ltr. to Asbury W. Quillian, February 6, 2002
        b)  Asbury W. Quillian response ltr. to David A. Carmichael, February 15, 2002

Encl: (1)  Code of Virginia §46.2-323 (Application for Driver's License) .
        (2)  Code of Virginia §57-1, §57-2 (Act for Religious Freedom).
        (3)  Code of Virginia §46.2-100 (Definitions).

Dear Mister Quillian,

Thank you for your rapid response [Ref:  a)] to my letter [Ref:  b)].  Unfortunately, Mr. Davidson missed the essence of my request when he drafted your response.

My request is one for religious accommodation.  I requested that you remove the erroneous Social Security numbers on the records for myself and my wife Leslie Young Carmichael who lives at this same address.  The authority which allows you to demand a Social Security to approve driver's license applications is Code of Virginia §46.2-323 [Encl: (1)].  Whether or not you presume the numbers are accurate is a moot point.  I am requesting a religious accommodation.

Mr. Davidson is wrong in advising you that you do not have authority to grant my request.  In keeping with the Virginia Constitution, Article I, §16, and Code of Virginia §57-1, §57-2 [Encl: (2)], the authority is inherently yours to grant an accommodation to a statutory requirement from which I am naturally immune.  Notwithstanding your natural responsibility to grant my request, you have been given specific authority in the same statute which demands the number.  Code of Virginia §46.2-323, B. [Encl: (1), highlighted] "The Commissioner may, on a case-by-case basis, waive any provision of such regulations for good cause shown."

If there is some particular mechanical or procedural problem that makes it impossible for you to erase or line out the number indicated in your records, then please grant my secondary request of canceling the original application within the meaning defined in Code of Virginia §46.2-100 [Encl: (3) "Cancel" or "cancellation" means that the document or privilege cancelled has been annulled or terminated because of some error, defect, or ineligibility, but the cancellation is without prejudice and reapplication may be made at any time after cancellation.]   If the applications are canceled, they will be as if they never were.  We can then start afresh with accurate information, based upon the truth in law, in keeping with God's commandments to not associate with the number of the beast.  As I understand it, an expired license is not the same as canceling the contract on record.  If my license is expired, the record remains indefinitely active as a presumed true record.  Cancellation on the other hand makes the record void.  We must then turn in our license documents, vehicle titles and registrations linked to the cancelled record since they are void.

Once the record is cancelled, we still face the issue of our request for religious accommodation that you have the authority and admonition to grant.  Currently, statutes allude that you cannot grant us a license, title, registration, identification card or other thing without requiring us to identify ourselves with a Social Security Number.  Without you granting us, our posterity and those of our religious class, an accommodation, it will be impossible for us to fulfill various statute requirements regarding owning and driving motor vehicles.

I assure you, we are not participants in the United States welfare benefit programs.  We are not deadbeat dads.  We are not criminals.  We are however being prohibited from doing anything that would otherwise be legal to do, only because we cannot participate with the number of the beast.

I send this letter to you rather than allow subrogation to Mr. Davidson.  Mr. Davidson does not appear by statute to be the designated principal who must grant my request.

Please prove my theology wrong by securing my liberty.

Sincerely,

David Alan Carmichael