is liberty dying where you live escape to keen at freakeen dot com hey guys i'm in port smith new hamster i'm sitting in the back of an uber car with christ david who's the owner who apparently got himself in a little trouble because he wants to start his own business and uh... try to make money the american dream try to get ahead this is what happened to him is a copy of the local newspaper he was arrested i thought we ask him a few questions before he takes me over my speech tonight christ glad to be here thank you well uh... why did you want to be an uber driver uh... supplement my part time web development income got a baby on the way do actually any day now so uh... every little bit helps so you got started and what did port smith city have to say about you driving uber here they um... two months ago uh... law went into effect making uber illegal they want uber to come through the city and kind of jump through a bunch of bureaucratic hoops in order to be legal here uh... uber is requested these changes to the ordinance and they have just not by just at all on our some of the changes to they want licensure fees to they want you to pay money to drive what do they want they want um... the background check process and uh... commercial insurance to be all signed off by the local police department which uber can't really do because that potentially jeopardizes the driver identity plus you know if you're tailoring your process to one municipality of twenty thousand people and the ten other municipalities right here past different variations of that uber just can't justify the legal cost they will pull out at that point one of the things i've noticed about riding uber and dc is it's made to cabs better their cleaner now they're more competitive because they know they're having to compete with somebody but the whole idea that one group of people would be like a guild and they would get together and exclude competition it's never been a very good idea so what happened you were at a restaurant recently and uh... you had a discussion with the balancer yeah just down here actually picking up a customer outside of the daniel street tavern and uh... waiting for outside and this balancer came up and said that hey this is illegal here um... so i record things on my car in case that i need to like unincriminate myself because you never know what people are doing in the back to the car whatever and um... i recorded um... him and then also this um... police driver came up police cop cop car came up because the balancer flagged him over he said hey there's an uber here so a cop car told me that i can't do what i'm doing gave me a verbal warning not to do it uh... anymore and he drove off eventually and then i attacked he came up and tried to block me in so the balancer have something to do with cap companies he wasn't related he is a part time taxi driver interesting lane so a little bit of self-interest yeah so well we wish you the best of luck we appreciate you coming to pick me up and you're actually going to take me to where i'm a town hall enforcement tonight and we wish you the best of luck and if there's any way we can help you to try to keep the state from oppressing you and keep the state out of your business so you can get ahead and provide for your family we'd like to help thank you very much thanks Chris we'd like to invite you to visit freakeen dot com freakeen dot com features audio video and blogs chronicling the transition to a voluntary society freakeen dot com also has comments and discussion for him so you can be heard freakeen dot com i should be in keen new hampshire with the free stators