Click It or Ticket

If anyone is unfamiliar, there is a nationwide seatbelt program currently underway called "Click It or Ticket!". There are billboards and both radio and television advertisements promoting this nifty, cool, hey-it-must-be-ok-because-it-rhymes initiative.

I am sure you can figure out what it is: if you are caught unbuckled while driving your vehicle, you are subject to a fine. Additionally of course, this gives the police just-cause to search your car because you are "breaking the law".

(side note: when seat belt laws were first introduced, we were told that they would NEVER be used as a reason to be pulled over. Now we have seatbelt roadblocks. It's not unlike how your social security number would NEVER be used as a means of identification.)

Why the Federal, state or local government feel that it is any of their concern regarding my seatbelt usage is beyond me. Of course the government has been "invited" into our lives so many times before (in the form of higer taxes, welfare programs, federal education system, etc..) that they feel one more intrusion into our personal lives will not bother us. The sad thing is that most just stand to the side and accept it. It is hard to blame them. What can one do about it?

I am almost positive that if you tell a policeman that it is none of his business whether or not you are wearing your seatbelt, you will be dragged from your car and beaten with a stick (or worse... a $250 ticket).

On this Memorial Day, please remember the brave soldiers who have given their lives in the name of freedom and liberty. I am quite positive they did not give their lives so American citizens would be ticketed by their own government for not wearing a seatbelt.

"They say don't step off the sidewalk and don't cross over the line... we're all criminals waiting to be called."