Mandatory buckle-up laws set the precedent: Even your own body in your own car is no longer your own personal space.
Here’s how it works: The government decides that whatever it is you’re doing is “unsafe” – not specifically in your case, just generally – maybe, might be, could be – then asserts the legal authority to criminalize whatever it is you’re doing. Which means, it asserts the right to arrest you at gunpoint and threaten you implicitly and perhaps explicitly with lethal violence in order to force you to submit and obey. That is, to comply with the order. Failure to do so being sufficient provocation for the unleashing of escalating levels of violent over-reaction. All the way to the end point of shooting you, if need be.
Now they’re coming for your cigarettes.
A study just released by the CDC (see here) characterizes second-hand smoke as the latest threat to “safety” – and of course, “the children.” It urges what you’d expect: That it be made illegal to smoke in your own car, at least, if “the children” are present and possibly even if they’re not. For as any smoker knows – as anyone who has shopped for used cars knows – any car that has been smoked in retains the essence of the Marlboro Man for years, even decades after the last butt was crumpled in the ashtray. There is no way to objectively tell whether a car was smoked in last week – or 10 minutes ago. Hence, it is likely that any evidence of smoking – ever – will presently become sufficient excuse for the police to issue tickets, stop people at gunpoint and perhaps even confiscate their vehicles (as is routinely done when another form of smoke is discovered).
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9 comments:
We live in a police state.
being female and driving should be looked into also.
It was the car insurance companies who lobbied to have seat belt laws made and then made primary stops.
They saw a dramatic drop in hospitalization cost from drivers involved in an accident that wore a seat belt.
The expense saved is worth it. Same as air bags and such.
Women and being stopped, maybe you are just a bad driver.
Thank God I had my seatbelt on.
thats why i still drive a truck thats old enough to not need seatbelts.cheap insurance also,but coct a bit in fuel.
sorry but the government has no right telling someone what they can do with their own property .... government really should have no say in what people drive or what vehicles can be bought or driven .... yes safety is an issue as far as all needed equipment and such .... but if i want to buy say a Trabant from eastern germany i should be able to and drive it anyplace i want.... The EPA and NHTSB need to go and quit with the unrealistic standards they put into place
The way people drive it really is a safety thing now. Not just obeying some stupid law.
There is nothing in our lives that is not touched by government.
All the people who think that the government has the right to make a plant illegal as in the case of marijuana are all going to be surprised now that they come for the cigarettes. It was ok when it wasn't your drug of choice. If only folks would see the drug war as a loss of personal freedom and not the persecution of a group different from themselves, they would realize we are all one people and we need to stick together.
The government needs to back out of our personal lives. I personally do not smoke and would never, however that is someones PERSONAL decision. I find this just as silly as trying to mandate vaccinations. It's all silly.
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