In a message dated 19/08/02 12:43:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
owner-mgs-digest@autox.team.net writes:
> In my view, getting a ticket for
> > disobeying the law is not the result of an abuse of power.
> >
>
> It's hard to instill in people a respect for the rule of
> law when the laws are so capricious and their enforcement
> so arbitrary.
What's arbitrary about giving offenders tickets? You know the law is always
subject to enforcement, you take your chances by having no front plate, then
why kick when what you knew could happen, does happen? We require front
plates here, and all but my Lamborghini has them, and if I had been ticketed
on the Lambo because there were no holes to mount a plate and I didn't want
to drill any, I wouldn't whine about it - any law is subject to enforcement.
> The newest kick is rabid enforcement of seatbelt
> laws. You can be pulled over if the cop thinks you aren't
> wearing a seatbelt. Although I have always worn seatbelts in
> cars so equipped, I had to check into this because my MGA never
> had seatbelts. According to the State Patrol, you don't have
> to wear a seatbelt in a car that wasn't sold by the manufacturer
> with seatbelts.
We have the same law in BC, and I think it is a damned good one. Use of belts
reduces injury and drastically reduces the monetary cost of care for accident
victims. It should be automatic - get in the car, belt up. I don't know why
people still bitch about this.
Offends their so-called freedom or something I suppose - I see this argument
mostly from Americans. Keep thinking that watching them sail through the
windshield in an accident would be a good time to call after them "But hey -
you are free......."
Bill
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