Police Use New Tool Against Seat Belt Violators

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=23994 ^

[Stew Padasso]

Nanny State Funnies!

[FreedomNeocon]

The same state has it ILLEGAL to ask immigration status when you do get pulled over (or get caught doing any crime)

[Nyboe]

few things tick me off more on a daily basis than having to put on my damn seat belt or risk getting a ticket.

I would vote for ANYONE who would promise to repeal this asinine law.

[Free and Armed]

Big Brother is watching you with a cool new set of night vision goggles.

[SevenMinusOne]

Un-Fking believable! - This Country is turning into a police State more and more each day! - (we won't even patrol our da*m borders but we will hand out night-vision goggles to a bunch of SOF wannabe police officers so they can "play") -

Of course it is done under the guise of our "safety" -

Police Departments in this Country are out of control - They purchase new vehicles every other year, new toys about every month and are continually looking at ways to increase revenues from the general public.

[PLMerite]

"Maryland State Police Cpl. Kevin Sherwood said the night-vision goggles are an effective way to catch those drivers."


Heaven forbid these morons should use NVGs to stake out high-crime (robbery/rape/murder) areas and forgoe the revenue-enhancing traffic stops...

[OldEagle]

Chances are they don't give a rat's rootietoot about safety and are after the money from the ticket. After all they gotta pay for the goggles.

[Old Mountain man]

It would be asinine to repeal asinine laws.

The sane people would all faint.

[Stew Padasso]

"I would vote for ANYONE who would promise to repeal this asinine law."

There is probably federal monies tied into this whole program. Anyone???

[monday]

"Wednesday night at a seat-belt enforcement checkpoint, police from several Maryland agencies started using night-vision goggles to see if motorists were buckled up. "

This is why people hate the police and the safety Nazi's. Jerks!

[Deb8]

There is no logic behind seatbelt laws. If we are to have laws with no purpose other than to protect the individual from himself then we should ticket smokers, the overweight and the sedintary.

Far more money goes into the health care system for those who are unfit than goes into emergency care for those who don't wear seatbelts. I stopped buying tickets to police fundraisers when seatbelt laws were enacted.

[Haru Hara Haruko]

It's all fun and games until some annoyed citizen gets a class III laser and modifies a seat belt Nazi's weltanschauung.

[kenth]

Yeah. It's part of the Transportation bill, isn't it? States receive more funding if they have laws authorizing police to enforce seat belt laws, even if that's the only 'law' broken.

[Mortikhi]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1415109/posts

[Paladin2]

It's a law to reduce the number of potential Darwin Award winners (I say let natural selection occur - we do have too many laws, most of which aren't enforced - immigration).

All we need is appropriately priced insurance (since there are laws requiring me to buy insurance) for those who don't want to wear the belt and everyone should be free to choose.

[Osage Orange]

It's about revenue....

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Nov3]

Ridiculous! Here we are with a bunch of Special Forces wannabees peering into private citizens cars while our borders are being overrun.

[tahotdog]

Ever see a cop out doing anything like that while it's raining? I know I haven't. You suppose all the danger of people speeding or driving without seat belts just sort of goes away when it rains?

[gorush]

The word "Liberty" must be expunged from the federal and all state constitutions.