A Little Deeper Into The Nanny State
Posted by: Jubal | 07/01/2008 8:23 PM
Today, the apron strings of the Nanny State were drew a little more tightly around our ancient liberties. Thanks to the safety uber alles crowd in Sacramento, it is now against the law for an adult citizen of this state to talk on the phone and drive at the same time.
But it's OK because it's for our own good, and since the elimination of risk clarion cal of modern liberal policy makers, then our personal liberty will just have to move aside for a safer tomorrow. What's next: make it a moving violation to change the radio station?
Didn't we fight a War of Independence over this sort of thing? As I recall, the Declaration of Independence includes this on the list of grievances against the Crown:
The 232nd anniversary of our independence will be upon us in a few days, and idiotic laws like this one make me think that if one of the Founders time traveled to the present, he might wonder if we didn't lose the war, after all.
But it's OK because it's for our own good, and since the elimination of risk clarion cal of modern liberal policy makers, then our personal liberty will just have to move aside for a safer tomorrow. What's next: make it a moving violation to change the radio station?
Didn't we fight a War of Independence over this sort of thing? As I recall, the Declaration of Independence includes this on the list of grievances against the Crown:
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."I think forcing us to shell out for cel phone head sets in order to comply with a petty, gratuitous, paternalistic new manacle on our liberties qualifies.
The 232nd anniversary of our independence will be upon us in a few days, and idiotic laws like this one make me think that if one of the Founders time traveled to the present, he might wonder if we didn't lose the war, after all.
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Amen.
You also have the choice of not talking on the phone all together. Which from a safety standpoint is the most preferred.
I like to drive my car at 100 MPH's through residential streets. But the safety uber alles crowd won't let me. Are they also impinging upon my liberty?
Get real. Driving 100 mph down a residential street is an inherently unsafe act. Talking on your cel phone while driving isn't.
To who Spare Me? I can drive my car quite competently at 100 MPH. It's the inattention of others not watching out for me that makes it dangerous.
BTW. Talking on a cell phone has been proven to be as much if not more of a distraction as driving under the influence of alcohol. Which is inherently dangerous and is also illegal.