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Walter E. Williams: Click it or ticket
jewishworldreview.com ^
| June 15, 2005
| Walter Williams
Posted on 06/15/2005 10:07:20 AM PDT by manny613
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an office within the U.S. Department of Transportation, just finished its annual campaign to get us to wear our seatbelts under a program called "Click It or Ticket." States receive federal subsidies to ticket drivers if they or their passengers are not buckled up.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billofrights; constitutionlist; donutwatch; govwatch; nannystate; peons; seatbelts; serfs; stateslaves; walterewilliams; walterwilliams
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:07:20 AM PDT
by
manny613
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To: manny613
Hey, it beats fighting actual crime.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:09:40 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: manny613
Very simple. There should be no law. Common sense should be all the impetus needed to wear a seat belt.
Let's stop making laws curtailing rights of Americans and start protecting and defending Americans.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:10:32 AM PDT
by
TheOtherOne
(I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed.)
To: manny613
Just great. A national fund raiser.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:11:36 AM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunion.)
To: manny613
I hate this intrusion from the feds to the state govts.
To: manny613
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:16:23 AM PDT
by
itsamelman
(“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
To: beltfed308
Darwin was right in his assertion of survival of the fittest. It is stupid not to wear seatbelts, therefore, dumb people die in auto accidents due to their ignorant mistake. Rather than ticketing people for not wearing seatbelts, allow nature to follow its natural course and 100% of Americans will wear seatbelts in due time with no law necessary.
To: manny613
States receive federal subsidies to ticket drivers if they or their passengers are not buckled up. I didn't know this. So they collect the fees from the tickets, collect federal monies from writing the tickets....Do they benefit from the insurance companies in any form from the lovely surcharges?
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:20:18 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: manny613
The Government allocates a lot of "grant" money to police departments to harass the citizens. These programs are "stat" driven. Accept the grant money, and show us your stats. The Government has too much tax money. It's disgusting.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:21:41 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
(Coming soon from Newsweek: "Fallujah - we had to destroy it in order to save it.")
To: biblewonk
Ping.
One of your favorite subjects.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:23:18 AM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: manny613
Well, if I caused an accident with Williams and he were not wearing a seat belt, and if he were injured so that he could not write his column for a time, I could be held libel for destroying a national treasure.
ML/NJ
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:23:34 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: manny613
What if they imposed fines on illegal aliens?
Wow...what a difference that would make.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:24:34 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: Wolfie
Hey, it beats fighting actual crime. Especially with millions of dope smokers out there that need to be arrested.
/S
To: manny613
Click it or Ticket fascism because socialism is costing us money.
Am I the only one that sees this as one problem compounding another and more of the same being offered as a solution? What country is this supposed to be again?
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:25:50 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
To: newgeezer
I sure agree with him on this one.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:26:34 AM PDT
by
biblewonk
(Yes I think I am a bible worshipper.)
To: atomic_dog
Probably do a touchdown dance if they happen to catch a dope smoker not wearing his seatbelt. ;)
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:26:57 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: Wolfie
If there is a Hi-power 9mm in his glove box, they give the cop a Carribean cruise for hitting the trifecta.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:29:09 AM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(Never underestimate the will of the downtrodden to lie flatter.)
To: B Knotts
What if they imposed fines on illegal aliens? How uncompassionate.
Now, those stupid SOB's forgetting to buckle up--they deserve it!
< /sarc >
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:29:16 AM PDT
by
k2blader
("A kingdom of conscience ... That is what lies at the end of Crusade.")
To: manny613
Another symptom of a government with too much time and money on its hands.
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posted on
06/15/2005 10:29:50 AM PDT
by
Spok
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