I'm sorry, but...

09/18/2007 | Philistone

[Gabz]

Nanny state Ping.....

Not sure I agree with everything on the list..........but it makes the point of what is going on.

[elkfersupper]

thanks for the link.

You're welcome.

Don't forget to read the Beck piece and spread the word.

[WFTR]

You don’t have a ‘right’ to drive. Sorry, your just wrong about this one. The others I tend to agree with. But driving is not a ‘right’ under any interpretation of the Constitution.

Sorry, but you are the one who is wrong. The Founding Fathers wanted post roads built by the government. While the primary purpose was delivering the mail, they recognized that these roads would aid in commerce that would strengthen the economy and the nation. The government uses public money and sometimes eminent domain to build these roads. The use of these general powers over the people means that use of the roads is a public right. Like any other public right, there can be some limits set on how that right is exercised. Free speech is a right, but someone may not shout in a residential neighborhood at two in the morning. However, beyond limited and reasonable restrictions, driving is a right. Those who have persuaded you otherwise are ignorant of the intent of the Founding Fathers.

Bill

[Eric Blair 2084]

Well said Dr. Philistone. Kudos. You have earned the respect and admiration of Dr. Feel (that and $4.50 will buy you a latte at Starbucks), a fellow specialist in Nanny State Behavior Syndrome.

[Shadowstrike]

As the child of an alcoholic, have to disagree with the first.

The ‘right’ to drive is something you earn by passing your license test.

If they are doing checkpoints, and you aren’t drunk, and driving. You’ve got nothing to worry about.

If you are drunk and driving, then you belong below the jail.
Just my opinion.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[dcwusmc]

The Bill of (some) Rights is but a “For Example” list of specific areas where government is not allowed to tread. It is not all inclusive, NOR IS IT MEANT TO BE. The Ninth and Tenth amendments take care of that. The whole constitution is specifically and by design a LIMIT ON THE AUTHORITY OF GOVERNMENT. That’s it and all... That you would trash it when it suited your wants speaks volumes about you... and not one syllable of it any good. And driving would be covered under the Ninth Amendment...

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Well, it’s rather obvious to me you’ve had a family member or loved one killed by a DD. But that taints your idea of freedom. Yes, I do agree they should be taken off the road, but that’s not what he was talking about.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

If they are doing checkpoints, and you aren’t drunk, and driving. You’ve got nothing to worry about.

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If the government puts cameras in your workplace, your home, all public places, etc; and there’s nowhere you have privacy, hey,so what? As long as you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about,right? Tired of hearing that argument.

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Very well done, by the way. ;^)

[Philistone]

I’ve already apologized in this thread for exaggerating certain things.

Yes, there are good, honest school teachers. Unfortunately, they are in the minority.

[Philistone]

As the child of an alcoholic I must respectfully disagree with you.

DUIs are the ONLY laws in America where you can be tossed in jail NOT because you present a “clear and present danger” (much less an ACTUAL danger) but because you belong to a demographic which STATISTICALLY (and the statistics are flawed) causes problems.

If you are for strong DUI laws, then you should rationally be in favor of locking up every 12 to 22 year-old African-American male in the United States since STATISTICALLY, they are responsible for more property/violent crime than any other demographic. Just makes sense, right?

[Philistone]

Feel free to expound on those with which you don’t agree.

Everyone else has! ;-)

[Philistone]

Hey! For $4.50 I can buy an entire can of “Folger’s Cheap Coffee Blend” which will last me a month!

[Eric Blair 2084]

Reading some of the negative responses to your vanity, I am not the least bit surprised. All politics are EXTREMELY local.

Who doesn’t want the mighty power of the State behind them to satisfy or legislate against their personal pet peeve?

Since some folks here love Big Gubmint, I’ll give it to them...but it’s your job to clean up the mess...I’m going to bed after this and this your vanity. I just start trouble, you finish it.

[Eric Blair 2084]

This is a sorry thread.....

[Eric Blair 2084]

I’m sorry that life has left you so bitter and angry. That doesn’t mean you I have to wallow around in the anger with you. I choose to make my life the best I can, while ignoring those that disagree with me. Mostly, I choose to not be bitter.

There is a better way to get rid of the bitter fetid breath of tyranny.

[Eric Blair 2084]

A troll? Since 2000?

Ignatz called you a troll? Sue the bastard :-)

[Eric Blair 2084]

If Hillary wins, we will have the government telling us what we can eat, how many miles a day we have to jog, how often we have to have check-ups (The Silky Pony said last week that if gov’t was paying for health care then it had a right to tell people how they should remain healthy), etc, etc.

[Philistone]

Love your sig BTW...!