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To: RobRoy

The responses you got later down the post amaze me to no end.

People cannot grasp you have a right to drive, yet they find a right to abortion and euthanasia - murder. Of course you have a right to drive. This is clearly not a privilege. Driving is merely a manner of travel; foot, horse, car. All the same.

The reason there was no horse riding license is that the people would not put up with it. Not because it was a right, rather than a privilege, but because people would not brook government interference.

Now the people do.

The people get what the people deserve. Unfortunately we are lumped with the people!


39 posted on 08/23/2005 7:36:24 PM PDT by Rodentking (There is no God but Yahweh and Moses is his prophet - http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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To: Rodentking
Of course you have a right to drive.

Sources please?

Or is this a 'right' because you really, really want it to be? If it's a right (like walking, talking, traveling on horseback), why do we have speed limits, insurance requirements, safety checks and written/driving/eye sight tests that are mandated? A 'right' has no such requirement. I don't have to speak clearly to talk. I don't have to have good eye sight to ride a horse, nor do I have to carry insurance to walk around.

Next absurd straw-man, please.

41 posted on 08/23/2005 7:46:44 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, come Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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