[lelio]

Caller to KVI 570 (conservative AM station here in Seattle) said the exact same thing. Terrorists abound and our troopers are asked to be baby sitters. We are now under a "Click it or Ticket" fatwa by the state, $86 fine.
The rep who pushed this through the WA state legislature had a sister that died in a car crash and wasn't wearing a seat belt.
This brings up my questions:
1. your sister is (er was) a dumb butt
2. your sister only does what the loving government tells her to do?
3. I had a cat that ran away. I don't go telling everyone to put their cat on a leash.
4. The Nannystate is breading wimps that can't think for themselves. Just recently we had a crazied student with a knife in a classroom. The only one in the class to stand up against him was a girl. Where were the boys in the class?
5. We're entering a reverse Darwinistic society where only the stupid breed. I think all the motorcycle riders w/o helmet should crash and die, I don't want them to reproduce.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The Nannystate is breading wimps.

Baked or deep-fried?

[muawiyah]

Frankly, we don't mind it a bit if you have an accident and you are not wearing your seatbelt provided you die.

It's those lingering deaths that become a cost to the taxpayers that bother us.

[TomGuy]

"Click it or Ticket" fatwa by the state, $86 fine.

Same going on in Arkansas. Hey, gotta make the month's budget quota. Tickets are a major source of state income; catching terrorists isn't. There is no money in catching terrorists.

[Almondjoy]

Unfortunely the costs invovled to taking that person to the hospital comes out of all our pocketbooks.. so is the law really about safety? No.. is it about money.. yes.

[arthurus]

The Nannystate is breading wimps

Prior to deep frying them?

[Flyer]

Click it or Ticket is nationwide. What a [expletive deleted] waste of resources.

[maxwellp]

$86! My husband, some months ago, driving without his seat belt, was fined $50. And I thought New York State was bad.