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On Fri, 13 May 2005 03:00:31 -0400, "Magnulus" Everyone does have the right to drive. Just because there are some REASONABLE restrictions placed on rights does not mean they don't exist. The clbuttic...

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Everyone (of age) already does, the argument here is when will that be recognized by a significant percentage of the populace? In the past, only male property owners could vote and that seemed "normal". Today, it is looked upon as quaint and misguided. I hope for the same with respect to one's right of travel using the customary conveyances of the day.

Your argument regarding 9 year olds is ridiculous. Minors are not granted full rights of citizenship so they cannot do many things accorded to people who are of age. Debating the blind being able to drive is akin to debating the comatose being able to vote. They have the right, but have a physical disability that prevents them from doing so.

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I'm upset that the Federal Government is going beyond its limited powers to extort people who must drive to live and prosper into accepting a more than Orwellian system that will track and monitor activities and movements. I doubt it'll survive a Consbreastutional challenge but it angers me all the same.

Good ridin' to ya, VLJ -- Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-- C. S. Lewis




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