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"The safety of the public good takes precedence over a person's privacy. Right to privacy is not absolute," Ricci said.

Tell that to the AIDS lobby.

11 posted on 07/14/2004 6:00:08 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("This house is sho' gone crazy!")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
"The safety of the public good takes precedence over a person's privacy. Right to privacy is not absolute," Ricci said.

Tell that to the AIDS lobby."

Your oh so correct with that statement.

In addition, the same attorney, Mr. Ricci states, "Driving... is a privilege, not a right."

How did this happen?

Before the invention of the automobile, did people who rode a horse, operated a two-wheel buggy, or covered wagon, not have the "right" to travel by those means to any destination of their choice?

The Pennsylvania Constitution states,

Inherent Rights of Mankind Section 1. All men are born equally free and independent, and have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, of acquiring, possessing and protecting property and reputation, and of pursuing their own happiness.

Isn't an "inherent and indefeasible (that cannot be annulled or made void) right(s)" of "enjoying...liberty" include the right, not the privilege, to travel uninhibited by government in acquired private property (an auto) on the roads that your tax money has paid for?

Of course it does.

The "right" to travel as free people is so basic to freedom and liberty that any government intervention to the contrary is anti-liberty and surely violates the Pennsylvania Constitution.

14 posted on 07/14/2004 10:33:13 AM PDT by tahiti
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