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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: If you could save lives, would you?
Message-ID: <403@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 18:05:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdc.403
Posted: Sun Sep  8 18:05:16 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 03:12:47 EDT
References: <2778@harpo.UUCP> <150@emacs.uucp>
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Keywords: seatbelts airbags

In article <150@emacs.uucp>, pz@emacs.uucp (Paul Czarnecki) writes:
>	o  Teach people that 55mph on a major artery on a clear day is
>	   too slow.
>--
>
>   Paul Czarnecki
>   Uniworks			decvax!{wanginst!infinet, cca}!emacs!pz
>   20 William Street		emacs!pz@cca-unix.ARPA
>   Wellesley, MA 02181		(617) 235-2600

O.K., who's game enough to teach that to Congress first?  (Yeh, I bet most
Congresscritters speed, too :-).  I've seen so much fulmination about 55mph--
so why not bombard Congress with letters, letters, letters.... (they pay the
most attention to long handwritten ones, so I hear, none of this chintzy
printout stuff or sign your name to the coupon stuff).  As soon as we decide to
abide by only SOME of the laws, we become either hypocrites or "civil diso-
bedients."  If the latter, we should be prepared to accept the consequences
if we get caught, no complaining (a la the Black civil rights movement).
Many Congressional districts are represented in the sundry USENET sites--so
fire up those olde analogue pens and tell your Congresscritter that you want
the restrictions on federal highway funding based on the state's speed limit
enforcement REMOVED.  Congress passed the law, and it can remove it.  Of
course be sure to tune up your car so it gets better mileage at 70 mph than
55 mph so that we don't run out of fuel sooner!
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