Remember when
I think it was the early 90s, maybe late 80s, when Tennessee passed its first seat-belt law? They said no one would ever be pulled over for it but if you were stopped for something else, you’d get a ticket for not wearing one. They assured us of that. They were full of shit.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:10 am
They did the same thing in Michigan.
Now we have cops who setup stings.
They will have a cop who stands between lanes in a 35mph zone near a light, looking into cars as they approach the intersection. He will radio ahead to the 4 or 5 cars waiting a few hundred feet ahead in a parking lot (off the road). Then the car will get pulled over and the occupants get tickets.
Mind you, it isn’t a “roadblock” or “checkpoint”. Just an officer on the road, peering into cars.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Just an officer on the road, peering into cars.
It starts with “peering into cars”. Then it becomes peering into trunks.
Isn’t it ironic that every year we have a bill for motorcycle riders to have the freedom to not wear a helmet but we have this safety belt canard for cars.
May 18th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Remember when income tax withholding was a temporary war effort?
Remember when a social security number was to be used solely for tracking wages and not to be an identification number?
Remember when a drivers license was simply a license to drive a car?
May 18th, 2007 at 10:43 am
They fed us the same sh*t here in Washington too. Couple of years ago they decided that “click it or ticket” was better than being honorable and continuing to keep the promise made when the “seat belt” law was passed in the late eighties.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Ditto Maryland.
Phelps’ comment is dead on.
We also have a law requiring headlight use when the wipers are used in a rain storm. They simply wish the right to pull over any car at any time for some random reason, and of course have the ability to search the vehicle. Random revenue enhancement is the icing in the cake.
This is the camel’s nose.
May 18th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
quote from article:
Border checkpoints? WTF?
May 18th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
A couple more ugly points:
– I know two people who have been pulled over even though they were wearing seat belts. One of them – a very good looking woman – was told she wasn’t wearing her seat belt. But she was driving a Ford Probe that had automatic seat belts. (Yes, they can be disabled, but these weren’t.) It becomes a very obvious “Your word vs the officer”. And you lose.
– My niece and her friends are taking driver’s ed. One of their instructors told them that if you are pulled over on a public road, you could not refuse a cop’s request to search the car. We know this isn’t true, but it is a form of control and brainwashing. Student-by-Student, year-by-year, generation-by-generation, these power-hungry scum are indoctrinating people into believing they don’t have rights that they really do.
If no one defends a right, do you still have it?
May 18th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Massa-fucking-chusetts just did the same thing a couple of years ago. Swore up and down that it could NEVER be a primary offense (meaning they can’t pull you over for that alone) to not wear your seatbelt.
Lying bastards, one and all.
May 18th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I think I mentioned that down the page. The first thing is to get a little, then the precedent is established that this valid procedure, so then you can expand it.
This is not new, people. It pervades our society and legal (I refuse to call it Justice) system.