“This kid put it behind his head or under his arm (meaning it was completely ineffective as a seat restraint), AND was sticking his head out the window. Gimme a break. The only issue for the cop here was procedural: he should’ve ticketed 19-year-old aunt. And before anybody tells me this is a freedom issue, if you’re that jacked up about it, get your representative to change the law. Until then, it’s the law.”
Life Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. That is more important to me than my idiot neighbors who have never met a new law they won’t vote for.
I want LIBERTY! I am sick of being hassled by Union Thugs with guns, and the otherwise unemployable attorneys that make up city hall all over this stupid country. The more restrictive it gets the more irrelevant the laws and judges become. You are a municipal judge, and you and I have talked before.
I am sick and tired of cops and judges claiming that they are simply tools of the collective will.
The collective will is right now completely contrary to the deceleration of Independence. We could organize a new revolution, and we wouldn’t even have to craft a new document. It has already been written.
I WANT LIBERTY! I don’t want the streets crawling with cops, with wide discretionary powers and a code book so huge that no one person has ever read the damn thing.
I don’t see how in the hell anybody, who has ever read the Constitution, read Adams, Locke, Jefferson could be a cop, or a municipal judge. You have taken a vote to defend the Constitution of the United States, yet you can sit as a judge and give judgments supporting seat belt laws. I want FREEDOM not laws.
If they couldn’t find people willing to trade their humanity and self respect in exchange for a pay check these stupid laws would never be enforced. But people are always willing to take these jobs and crap all over the proverbial side walk.
I WANT FREEDOM. I DEMAND FREEDOM FROM LAWS AND TYRANNY! Give us back King George at least that tyrant was all the way on the other side of the Atlantic not my neighbors.
Lets take that stupid song “To Thee I Sing” you know the one “This land of liberty, to thee I sing”, lets throw it in the damn trash can and never ever sing it again.
DB:
I’ve seen enough of your posts to know that not only are you a lover of freedom, you are an opponent of activist judges. So am I.
The fellow Texas attorney who replied complained about laws that are void ab initio, but didn’t give an example of why the seat belt law is one such.
If we only obey those laws with which we agree, we are no different that the people about whom we complain so much on FR, unless we’re willing to accept the penalty for disobeying a validly passed statute, law or ordinance when we’re caught. I happen to think it’s ridiculous that a CDL holder can’t take the driver safety course to get rid of a speeding ticket, even if he was in his own car and isn’t currently employed as a commercial driver, but that’s the law. If enough CDL holders get together and lobby, it may change.
I think the process is as important as its result; otherwise, we would be a nation of men, not of laws.
And gaijin - I’m proud to carry a military rank, not because I earned it, but because it’s a privilege and an honor to be able to serve. I regret it offends you.