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God save us from the "if it's not specifically mentioned by name in triplicate in the Constitution, it's not a right, it's a privilege" clowns.

Were you sleeping during the classroom or driving portion of drivers education or maybe both? Every state controls who can and can't drive. I took drivers ed. in Michigan during 1973, and the first sentence out of the instructor's mouth was about driving being a privilege not a right. Since then I have been licensed to drive in Indiana, Virgina and North Carolina, all of which stress the same point. Even Paris Hilton has learned the difference between rights and privileges recently. The original point I was making was that the authorities can stop any vehicle, board any boat or knock any plane from the air if they need to do it. We don't need any new laws giving them the authority to do the same.

BTW Willard, don't throw the term "clown" around until you take a good look at yourself.

I've decided that there is a fundamental disconnect in your thought processes and my thought processes. Of course the government declares driving to be a privilege. They’re the government and wouldn't’t give you the right to breath if they could help it. This is the same government that calls tax cuts “spending” and thinks restrictions on gun ownership are “reasonable” Government ALWAYS try to expand their powers at the expense of individual freedom, and willing dupes who buy into the bureaucrats’ rationale for whatever phony crisis is the panic flavor of the day simply help this process along.

The common law right to travel has been enshrined in english law since the 1500s or so. Just because the government has convinced most folks through persistent propaganda that they have the power to do anything they damn well please doesn't mean the right no longer exists. Automobiles don't change the equation in this right any more than semi-automatic weapons change the 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In that case though, even though we are fortunate enough to have it actually amongst those few enumerated rights listed in the Constitution, they still won't let you exercise that one for the most part either. They've even managed to convince most folks that you need a license to carry concealed! Just like when they first started the push for drivers licenses, they only required commercial truckers to have them. They push their agenda of control one small step at a time, because the sheeple will notice if they dump it on us all at once.

You're right about them stopping any vehicle they want though, because they have the guns and have nothing to keep them from using them.

” Every state controls who can and can’t drive. I took drivers ed. in Michigan during 1973, and the first sentence out of the instructor’s mouth was about driving being a privilege not a right.”

Well then, that settles it. Your drivers ed teach said it, so it must be true. (eyes roll)

Meantime, the states must not be doing all that swell of a job “controlling.” Consider the fact that since issuing the first driver’s license in NY in 1910, accidents and fatalities continue to occur today involving licensed drivers.

Issuing licenses for recreational boaters will not prevent terrorist attacks any more than does issuing driver’s licenses for motor vehicles prevent accidents and fatalities from occuring today.

While some may take comfort that there may be less accidents and fatalities since the states control who may and may not drive, it is little comfort to the maimed or killed victim of a licensed driver.