Few weeks ago, I was stopped at a roadblock, four police, two cars. Everyone is stopped and told, it was for a seatbelt check. For some reason, my drivers licence was checked, along with a visual check of licence plate and inspection sticker. In the the process a visual was done of the backseat. All of this for my own good, to see that I had a seatbelt on, which was apparent from six feet away.
No problem, it does however make one wonder just what else may be added in the future, in the name of security and my own good.
As I have said before, we all have different points at which enough becomes enough. Bending the law does lead to problems.
Exactly, the set up of equivocal situations like these by the "authorities" makes me shiver. It is inherently unsafe.
There is a fine line between; a cop taking normal custody grab of a suspicious activity or asking a question or asking to wear seat belts, even if giving a ticket thereafter; and an outright power grab.
Most people were sent to Gulags because they were told first that only a few questions would be asked, and their families thought daddy would be back in 5 min. They never saw those people again. Disarmament of the population is also a very equivocal situation, in fact, our Founding Fathers specificialy said to refuse it. Christians are taught to spread the word, because spreading the word of being saved allows for you to confess so that people can check and balance your behavior, so that you agree that you are not infallible and that when you sin you make sure others are there to take temporary rotating custody of you. I do not any problem with armed governments taking temporary local rotating custody over people. I just have a problem when government thinks it is infallible and believes it never needs the help or custody of citizens.
This is the fine line between custody grab of a cop stop and complete power grab. When they go beyond the seat belt and make things equivocal, as if they were sinless snooping around like that, it is not healthy at all.