Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!andromeda!dave From: dave@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU (Dave Bloom) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.cycle Subject: Re: slow cars in left lane Message-ID: <457@andromeda.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 21-Jul-86 18:29:24 EDT Article-I.D.: andromed.457 Posted: Mon Jul 21 18:29:24 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jul-86 05:01:56 EDT References: <345@valid.UUCP> <246@njitcccc.UUCP> <14522@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <6117@sri-spam.ARPA> Organization: Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Lines: 48 Xref: watmath net.auto:11686 net.cycle:1842 In article <6117@sri-spam.ARPA>, robert@sri-spam.ARPA (Robert Allen) writes: > > Seatbelt laws for cars, mandatory helmet laws for motorcycles, and > drunk testing checkpoints are complete bullshit. They are elements > of fascism (or communism, both restrict personal freedom) which are > being injected into our society by do-gooders who won't realize what > a mistake it is until it is too late. Truthfully, I couldn't care less whether or not someone else has their belt or helmet on... But you're a fool if you think drunk-driving test points are a bad idea. I once saw the car in front of me weave into a guard rail a number of times. (It's a miracle he was able to 'drive' at all) I stayed behind him the whole way, since passing him would've been like playing Russian Roulette with all the barrels full. Amazingly, the cops had a testing point on that road, and needless to say, he was busted. I hope they took his license away for the rest of his life. Absolutes are idiotic. Sometimes you've *got* to give in to a few inconveniences for your own safety. The police were INSURING my RIGHT to live by getting that idiot off the road. You're as bad as the com- munists and facists if you think that ALL laws that restrict personal 'rights' are wrong. If I gave up some kind of 'right' by being delayed 2 minutes that night, then I did so gladly. > Write your congress-person > now to strike a blow for personal freedom. The problem isn't that the > government is getting restrictive, but that people haven't got the > guts to accept personal responsibility, and vote people and laws into > power to accept responsibility for them. Geeze people, grow up and > show some backbone. If you're truly worried about losing your freedoms, Reagan has given you a thousand other reasons to be alarmed... instead of worrying about seat- belts and drunk-driving checks, try worrying about the important issues. The sodomy issue you brought up, as are the issues of prayer in schools, the distribution of pornography, etc. are of far greater impact. > Geeze people, grow up and show some backbone. A fine idea. Try it. -- harvard\ pyramid\ Dave Bloom seismo \ pyrnj \ ut-sally >!topaz >!andromeda!dave Office: (201) 648-5083 allegra / caip / ihnp4!packard/ yogi/ "You're never alone with a schizophrenic...."