Posted on 01/29/2002 11:01:29 PM PST by summer
I hope this helps. : - )
I hope this helps. : - )
Do you have any idea WHY just anyone, who owns a car, had to get a driver's license; originally ? It was because people were buying cars and immediately driving them ( driving other people's ); crashing them, causing accidents, and in general, driving when they shouldn't be. Hence someone came up with testing and licensing drivers.
IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH KEEPING RECORDS ON ONE'S HEIGHT, WEIGHT EYE COLOR, AND ADDRESS !
Do you assume that driver's licenses are something new ? They are almost as old as the invention and sale of cars. I have my grandfather's from 1916 ; it has his height, weight, eye color, and address on it. BFD ... NOT !
It makes me laugh when some figure like a boxer or rapper comes out of stir wanting to be called his "Muslim" name. The next time he's seen, it will be with most certainly UN-veiled women, livin' large. Hypocrites.
Of course, no one ever asks them about this foolishness, nor asks if they know it was Muslims who sold (and still sell) human beings into slavery.
I guess if some can pervert religion into wanton murder and slaughter, some can pervert it to common crime as well. Did not most of the Nation Of Islam's founders do time? I seem to remember a story or two about Farrakhan and Malcolm X both having served stretches.
Wasting bandwidth? I think it is one of the most important issues of our time. Do we have rights, or merely privileges granted by Big Brother? That is the question.
Just because no salutation is required doesn't mean that rendering one is an offense. Saying 'Please' is never a requirement either, yet CIVIL folks do it all the time.
Finally, since it is I who is desirous of peace, it is up to me to decide how best to achieve it. I am of the opinion that the best way to achieve peace is by standing against ignorance.
Anyone who thinks that just because they have traded their right for a revokable privilege, I am therefore obligated to do the same, is ignorant.
Address the issues I have raised, sir. Does she require a license to 'travel in a privately owned conveyance'? If the answer is No, then the entire issue is based on a fallacy. If your answer is Yes, you are wrong.
PEACE, EH?
PS- I have no problem.
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okay , so will you bail me out of jail after I recite said code to the cop that arrests me after lets say 9 tickets of driving without a liscense?
No problem, I bookmarked it, Vanity Post on Vanity Posts, Duplicate Posts, Trash Posts, Commie Propaganda, etc., Vol V, No. 1
My "surface point" was that as far as rights and privileges are concerned, driving is neither fish nor fowl, and to ask the question of "which is it" borders on a form of "have you stopped beating your wife?"
The fact that driving is not an "absolute" right does not demonstrate that it is a privilege, nor does the fact that it's not a "pure" privilege serve as evidence that it's a right. There are things in this world that are neither rights nor privileges. Life is fraught with gray areas, and situations that require judgement, discretion, and/or thought. Driving is fairly simple as these matters go. Behave responsibly (i.e., demonstrate the ability to comprehend basic traffic rules and a modicum of control over a moving vehicle), and you'll be handed a license. If you comply with a reasonable set of rules, the licensing agent has absolutely zero discretion as to whether or not you get a license. He can't say "My cousin is his next door neighbor, and I know things about this guy, trust me, he shouldn't get a license, and he won't get one on my watch!" Any DMV drone who tried something like that would find his watch over with sooner than he'd anticipated.
Driving has "rights" aspects, and "privileges" aspects, but neither in totality.
Now that's funny!
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