🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 11:18:50 -0400, Mr Ed <Ed@w3source.net> wrote:

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>Richard Collins wrote:
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>> "Popeye" <popeye_37@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Y3ZK9.5947$cN6.231329@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
>> > Keep in mind, driving is a privilege, not a right. If you want to avoid
>> the
>> > roadblocks, walk.
>> >
>> Keep in mind the laws are there as much to restrain the State as to control
>> the populace.
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>Exactly Richard. That flawed logic of  'if you want to avoid roadblocks, walk'
>would never fly if it was applied (for example), 'if you want to avoid the
>police coming into your home and searching without a warrant, don't own or rent
>a house', or perhaps 'if you don't want the police randomly stopping and
>searching you on the street, don't walk down the street'. It is a bogus
>argument.
>
>The fiction of 'driving is a privilege not a right' has been rammed down the
>throat of the motoring public for decades, and that is an authoritarian and
>dictatorial view that should be rejected and renounced by any free people. The
>right to drive a vehicle should be limited only by the physical/mental ability
>of the operator to safely operate their vehicle, their ability to pay the
>applicable fees (driver permit, registration, insurance, etc), and once those
>fees are paid, their ONLY obligation is to proceed in a safe and responsible
>manner. They have PAID for their right to drive, and that right should not be
>infringed by faux 'sobriety checkpoints' that catch only a handful of DUI
>offenders while the rest of such offenders drive on through the night (or day)
>with impunity. The right to drive should not be limited by police-state
>roadblocks and throwing wide nets over public highways without probable cause.
>
>Mr. Ed
>
>"The FAMOUS Mr. Ed"


The big point is the same as photo radar, if you are doing nothing
wrong, you have nothing to worry about. Why don't you get up in arms
over the small percentage of drivers that are causing the response?