[JohnHuang2]

Friday, December 19, 2003

Quote of the Day by Political Junkie Too

[agitator]

Thomas Jefferson once said, "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."

I suppose that's why everybody is forced to pay the exortionists at the DMV for a license.

baaaaaaa baaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[thegreatbeast]

Here in the People's Commonwealth the pols are dying to make seatbelts a primary offense for which they can stop, and fine, you. Right now undone seatbelts are a secondary offense that they can only tack on after they have stopped you for some other reason. Having the feds mandate seatbelt usage would be just the impetus needed to elevate the "offense" to primary status. It would be like shooting fish in a barrrel and a terrific "revenue enhancement".

[Hank Rearden]

Anyone else out there just sick to death of the damn government?

[Richard-SIA]

I wonder if this post will get the same hostile reception mine did when I announced my intent to fight my seatbelt ticket?

I did fight it, to no avail of course.
But as I told the judge, having lost I now have legal standing to join in any future effort to repeal the "law".

Blackmail is a criminal activity, it does not matter if it's some thug or the Fed. Gov. doing it, it is still criminal.
"Our" Gov. resorts to this tactic frequently when they feel a need to abridge our constitutional rights without a legitimate venue to do so.

Seatbelt laws, national speed limits, drinking age, DUI thresholds, age of consent.....
All of these are being determined by federal blackmail!

I guess that once enough of the individual states laws have been homogenized, the liberals will feel free to disband our state legislatures, and implement their dream of a omnipotent socialist federal government.

The recent repeal of the first amendment facilitates this goal.
We had better start resisting this trend, or we will find ourselves disenfranchised all the sooner!

[Peace will be here soon]

Putting on a seat belt is really not that hard. I am a convert to buckling up. I never thought much about it until a co-worker of mine ended up just about going completely through a windshield in an accident, at least his face and shoulders did. He was told by his doctors that he came very close to bleeding to death. His face is now partially paralyzed and can hardly smile because of muscle and nerve damage. If he had been buckled up, more than likely he would have walked away from the accident unharmed. After watching him go through everything he did, I now buckle up on a regular basis. It is almost a reflex to reach for the belt when I get in the car. Should it be mandated by the federal government ? I don`t know. I buckle up now so it is not much of an issue with me. But I did not like this line : "and b) not achieving a 90 percent compliance rate within three years of passage." This was an eye catcher for sure !!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is the United States, not Sweden.

[countrydummy]

I don't like the "Law" and the reasons behind the "Law". However, I am a RN, I have worked ER most of all my life, I have seen patients come in that lived because of a seat belt, and I have seen decapitated bodies that did not......you decide! By the way, they drive me crazy!
The shoulder straps always end up around my neck! lol

[apillar]

If you want to get around this law my advice would be to get the largest SUV you can find, preferrably a Hummer if you can afford one. Then tint the windows up to the legal maximum for your state. It would be darn near impossible for anybody to tell if you were wearing a seatbelt or not unless they were standing still and looking right in the window. Oh by the way if you do get pulled over for speeding, click on your seatbelt before the officer gets to your window and remove it as soon you get back on the road.

[BSunday]

Do we even have a constitution anymore? I mean, other than the senate and house rules.

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[Knightsofswing]

I am not opposed to wearing my seatbelt, but what I do HATE is some nanny-state telling me to. The only reason they enacted these laws, is the insurance companines wanted it! It is the law of who has the most money, makes the laws!
Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves over what we are allowing to be done to our beloved country!

[jmc813]

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[jmc813]

Don't look now, but Congress is preparing more legislation aimed at blackmailing states into going along with another unfunded, unconstitutional mandate Washington has no original authority to issue.

Is WorldNetDaily another leftie publication along with National Review?

[logician2u]

Federalism aside, we need to understand that a segment of the population -- not large, but loud and somewhat influential in places such as Neu Yawk and Portland, O-re-gone -- becomes absolutely ecstatic when they learn of another imposition/restriction/mandate/cost proposed to be inflicted on automobile owners.

Mandatory seatbelt laws are, to these nutballs, just one more brick paving the road to their nirvana, a car-free society.

They are not as much concerned with traffic safety as with removing cars and drivers from the roads, which would leave them more open to such healthy activities as walking and riding bicycles.

(Not suggesting in any way that Hillary is in need of exercise or anti-car. But she's smart enough to play this issue for what it's worth.)

[Jeff Gordon]

I do not believe that people should be legally forced to wear seatbelts.

I do believe that people who are injured while not wearing seatbelts should have no legal claims about those injuries no matter who was at fault.

Feel free to not use your seat belt but also accept total responsibility for the risks you are taking.

[philman_36]

Just one more step in making this nation into merely another country.
If any don't understand this, ask.

[A CA Guy]

Fine, don't wear your seatbelts, but be prepared for your accident insurance to be rendered null and void by your own behavior when you are in an accident regarding any benefit the insurance would have given you.

[PISANO]

Feds mandate or stop funding......that is their gimmick. If a state opts out....they get hit in the pocketbook and we all know that the States are addicted to FED MONEY!