It is not safe or practical to drive in this weather. Regardless of the deep contempt with which I regard mini-me Coupe d’Val, the ban is probably a good idea. It irks my libertarian instincts, but these are public roads, paid for and maintained by “the public”, i.e., taxpayers. I recognize the right of fools to act recklessly, but the taxpayers will have to pay to rescue them and clean up the mess. Hunker down and enjoy the down time.
I agree. I dare anyone to try and drive in a storm dumping, at some points, up to four inches an hour.
What has happened to the Spirit of ‘76 Massachusetts? Is the individual sovereignty to make one’s own decisions lost forever? Good lord, how much snow has fallen on us since then without the paternalistic dictates of self-important, tin-horn usurpers crimping our Liberty? Freedom of movement is a fundamental right.
We have the same idiotic ruling by our own autocratic governor here in CT. It demonstrates the condescension and disdain that ruling elites have for citizens. The assumption is that they know better than we just is in our interest. Note in the article the edict exempts employees of grocery stores, hardware stores, and the media. So some bureaucrat in a cubicle at the capitol decides who will move and who won’t. Did it occur to them that, if no one may travel, then there is no need to man retail businesses? DUH!
We’re smart enough to vote and choose those in the governor’s mansion and the state house, but too infantile to decide about our own lives: No driving for you! No salt for you! No “Big Gulps” for you! No incandescent lightbulbs for you! No hip replacement for you! No guns for you! Keep off the grass! Fasten your seatbelt! No smoking! Watch what you say! Lower that thermostat!
In Arkansas we leave work to hunker down if snow flakes or ice starts falling. lol...you don’t want us driving in any of it!
A year in prison. Let that soak into you little imagination. One complete year of your life for defying the edict of your ruler.
This represents yet another crossing of a line and people, even people who consider themselves libertarian, have no problem with it.
The inversion of power is pretty much complete and it’s clear, and our rulers make clear all the time now, that we are on the bottom.