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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Driving as a right or privilege / "for your own good"
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 15:12:31 EDT
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> Driving as a right not a privilege?  That is one of the most absurd 
> statements I have heard in a long time.  You think just because you
> are of legal age and can somehow procure an automobile, you should
> be allowed to travel on PUBLIC highways.  Wrong...wrong...wrong.
> A car is a weapon just like a firearm and should be licensed and
> should be controlled in the same way anything that is dangerous to the public
> is.  If you get "a few speeding tickets and don't pay them" you should
> have your driving license revoked.  Not only are you endangering the
> public at large by high speed driving, but you are too immature to get
> in and either pay them or have your day in court.  If this happens to you
> then you deserve whatever the authorities do to you.   Maybe by taking
> a taxi to work and having a few hard earned dollars go to that you might
> learn the errors of your ways and behave like an adult behind the wheel
> rather than a cowboy.  [JIM BURNETT]

I'm glad SOMEone said it.  Too bad these cowboys talk big about their
personal freedom and not about the effect that exercising their "freedom"
might have on other people.
-- 
"Mrs. Peel, we're needed..."			Rich Rosen 	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr