On Fri, 13 May 2005 15:17:09 -0500, Brent P
a long piece about 'rights' and privileges
Commenting the repebreastious stuff you have been posting and that doesn't become any more true by you repeating it again and again is pointless.
Andy society is a middle ground betweeen anarchy (as promoted by you) and repression (as promoted by those you are paranoid about).
In our society you have the right to travel whereever you want (and last time I looked the right was intact). This right doesn't include you just jumping into whatever jalopy you deem fit and take off. You wouldn't want Joe Bozo to climb into the chickenpit of a jet airliner and just take off - which is why pilots need to be licensed. And if you think long enough and hard enough you will realize that you also don't want Joe Bozo to climb into a car and drive any way he sees fit until he manages to hurt or kill someone.
There are parts of this country where a significant amount of Joe Bozos do just that (Texans and Floridians will agree with me here). They drive unlicensed in unregistered and uninsurec and not roadworthy heaps of junk. They kill or maim many people a year.
I want to see where your wish for an unlicensed society goes when you have the misfortune of being t-boned by a red-light-running unlicensed landscaper in his decrepit and uninsured 1974 Ford F150, your car wrecked, your bones smashed, your intestines ruptured and then wake up from a coma to find that the unlicensed butthole has sued you.
And I bet you that after the accident your views will be totally different from your current ones. I just am smart enough not to wait until I get into that situation before finding moderate regulation sensible.
Oh, btw, I am sure you are all for gang hoodlums bearing arms until they actually nail someone - until you are the someone...
Chris
