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To: Dixie Yooper
Anytime we are doing something that is a privilege, our rights are limited. Driving a car, operating a watercraft or aircraft, puts us in a position of scrutiny by the authorities. If you don't want your boat boarded for a life jacket check, make it obvious by wearing your life jacket at all times and making sure everyone on board is wearing theirs.

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. 

95 posted on 05/29/2007 11:42:25 AM PDT by zeugma (MS Vista has detected your mouse has moved, Cancel or Allow?)
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To: zeugma
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.

119 posted on 05/30/2007 4:10:16 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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