Posted on 01/23/2016 7:14:18 PM PST by matt04
Thank you for checking. I really have never understood that.
Hillary is the exception. She can drive while drunk - hit people walking on the street and kill school children by mowing them over...
The laws don’t apply to Hillary because she’s a friggin’ witch and all the little munchkins are afraid of her.
While someone is having a heart attack.
Fallacy of the dramatic example.
It must be a road damage thing, that’s the only thing I can think of. Yes, chains are hard on roads but it gets us safely from point A to B out here without hours or days stuck on the highway.
Commie mayors are so nice to their subjects, aren’t they?
Common sense says not to drive if you have two feet of snow on the roads. I don’t need a nannystate Sandinsta-loving, Cuba-Honeymooning Commie telling me to stay off the roads.
How are they supposed to plow the roads if they are littered with abandoned or stuck vehicles?
We are getting these bans now because the system no longer works. Govt is getting more and more inept in providing basic services. We had 30” and two or three passes of a plow during the 18 hours of the storm would have provided for passable roads for 4x4’s.
Finally, they are gonna let people drive on the sidewalks! *bada*boom*kisk*
Darn that global warming!
Try to arrest me and I will kill you.
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Is that you Hillary?
We care. You obviously don’t.
This will be my last post on the subject but it seems you are missing the point, perhaps because it is incongruent with specious claims of moral superiority and empathy. Nobody, including me, is in favor of death, delays, inconveniences, cold feet or stale bagels.
What we are less in favor of is government constantly asserting its importance and primacy regardless of the circumstance. We are even less in favor of government issuing threats. This site exists specificially to oppose these ideas and tactics.
The dramatic ‘if it saves one life’ canard has been used to justify soft tyranny in this so-called free nation for decades. It has resulted in appalling government overreach that has been accepted by far too many people.
Individuals may show concern and justifiably so but they seem to believe that government’s version of concern is of the same flavor and purity as theirs, merely collected and concentrated when quite the opposite is true.
Officialdom is worried about officialdom. It is focused on its own importance. Its actions and reactions are rarely, if ever, proportional to the stated problem, even a widespread one.
In all candor, it puzzles and alarms me when any user of this site who is presumably conservative, libertarian, etc. suddenly condones government hegemony due to a newsworthy local event, however dangerous. It seems to say that such principles and being responsble for one’s own actions should be disposed of the moment public employees make draconian pronouncements.
There are many instances on FR where freepers from other parts of the country do not understand New York.
In this case, it is not a matter of “if one life can be saved,” because as I already explained we have an emergency every 15 minutes. The area that I live in has a population density of 110,000 people per square mile.
I do not think this particular edict was overreach. Last evening there were people all over the streets, walking their dogs, letting their children out after a day of being cooped up, even cross-country skiing I was told (although some out-of-towner on Facebook suggested that Trump shoot them with a tranquilizer dart). I’m guessing that the rule will be lifted as soon as the streets are sufficiently plowed.
We have to care about one another here, because with so many people living here situations can soon devolve into tragedy. The one thing de Blasio has done right is to take drastic measure when lives are in danger. I wish he had more concern for the Constitution as well, but in this case he was right.
I got back on the highway outside Sheridan, WY one year during the hour they opened it before closing it again, and was nearly to Glendive, MT (about 275 miles) before I actually saw pavement. Ice and snow the whole way. Not for people who aren't good at it or who don't have the right vehicle.
Privilege.
you obviously are speaking about that which you know nothing.
one tractor trailer sideways on the interstate blocks both lanes preventing rescue of all behind it for maybe 50 miles. then there is likely three or 4 cars that hit each other and others skidding into the median to avoid contact. it is a bad mess that requires tow trucks that can’t get there because of the snow and snarled traffic
One driver skids off the road and ends up backwards in the median and unable to move but has a cell phone and whines miserably for rescue.
all the cops are not enough to get to the numerous accidents to get the interstate up and running and then there is more snow .
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