🚀 go-pugleaf

"RickW" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> "Roy Shroyer" <badcam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > In a word:  "NO!".
> >
> > Everytime the government does something to protect us, it is just a
further
> > erosion of personal freedoms.
> >
> > That said, I believe that if there is conclusive proof that the person
at
> > fault in the accident was talking on the cellphone when the accident
> > occurred, that there should be severe penalites added, akin to the
penalites
> > assigned when the driver at fault is drunk.
> >
> > That way, people could be held accountable for their carelessness,
without
> > giving the police another excuse to pull people over and shake them
down.
> >
> > Just my 2�
>
> Are you kidding?  We're talking about Maryland.  The police
> already have a half dozen excuses to randomly pull people over and
> shake them down.
>
> Considering MD is one of only two states to pass the UCITA, these
> kinds of nonsense proposals are no surprise at all.  Their state
> government has its collective head squarely up its ass.  Even if this
> law passed it would eventually be thrown out on First Amendment
> grounds.
>
> What's next, laws against eating while driving?  How about against
> playing music so loud the driver is oblivious to approaching emergency
> vehicles?  Wait, I know, let's give the cops decibel meters so they can
> tell who's breaking the law.  And on and on.
>
> How much more of a totalitarian shithole does this country need to
> become before people start waking up?
>
> RickW


I think you misunderstood.  I don't want more laws governing my actions.  I
feel that the individual should be held accountable for his actions,
however.


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