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To: mhking
Being allowed to drive in this country is a privilege and not a right... so what's the big deal? None compliance with the rules means privilege gets revoked. Another frivilous law suit like the Pledge being unconstitutional. What the Hell is happening to this country????
8 posted on 06/27/2002 10:54:47 AM PDT by TidalBore
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To: TidalBore
Who agreed to that statement? Driving is a privilege and not a right? Certainly a power to regulate driving is not granted to the federal government in the Constitution. So it is a state or people's issue. In the good old days, common transportation was by wagon or horse, I don't think those forms of transportation were regulated. Were horsemen forced to obtain licences before galloping hither and yon? Were wagoner's forced to sit for a full frontal photograph? I think not, they would have blown the frigging bureaucrat back where they belong! The "government" has become so intrusive and overbearing on all facets of pedestrian life that now (when did this happen) it demands photos (left profile, right profile, full frontal, and soon biometric) authenticated certificates to permit one to do things that are a natural right in any rational understanding of the world.

I have a right to freely move about in the contemporary mode of moving about -- I guess the founder's should have had a constitutional amendment to that effect, so that the feeble minded would get it. This nation was founded on the principle that each individual is a soverign, free from oppressive restriction by others, free to carry out his life as he sees fit. Unfortunately, ever since the founding of this country the bureaucrats have siezed the initiative in regulating every innovation that has come into this world -- from "arms" to "communication" to "transportation" to "speach". And encroach further on any new development that offers a mode of control over citizens. Why do we grant these anal retentive bureaucrats the authority to do that?

79 posted on 06/27/2002 4:42:12 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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