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To: mewzilla
In any case, driving is a privilege, not a right. The state can regulate it any way it sees fit, and this is totally reasonable.

Oh, you're drinking that Kool Aid, too? Don't forget that if driving were a privelige, it would have to repose somewhere before the monarchy decided to give it to us. This supposes that those privelieges are naturally the property of government, to be dispensed at its pleasure.

It's thinking like that that has brought us revocation of drivers' licences over issues unrelated to the safety of other drivers on the road, like high school grades and child support enforcement.

If they can do that, if the "privelige" is their property to give or withhold as they see fit, why would it be morally objectionable for them to dispense licences on political criteria? It's already happened with concealed carry licences. I believe it's a right, subject to revocation only for behavior that endangers other drivers or pedestrians, and with the burden of proof firmly on the government (presumption for the driver).

12 posted on 02/17/2005 10:47:05 AM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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To: Still Thinking

bodies flying from cars do endanger other drivers or pedestrians.


14 posted on 02/17/2005 10:49:57 AM PST by notigar
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To: Still Thinking

Bump for your clear-headed reasoning!


55 posted on 02/17/2005 11:29:33 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: Still Thinking

Fine analysis BUMP!

"We have decreed that our subjects may drive auto-mobiles! Hear the word of the King!"


126 posted on 02/17/2005 9:15:31 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (The South will rise again? If we can get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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