I respectfully beg to differ. The government does not confer rights to
anyone. Governments try to reduce rights to privileges, with the right
to control your use of those privileges going to them. Rights are
conferred only by the people demanding and defending them. We as a
people seem more and more willing to give up those rights for a bit of
imaginary security. The police's job is not to protect you, no matter
what it says on the door of the car, but to detain and arrest those who
violate the governments rules. Unfortunately, but inevitably, the
government is making more and more of those rules for the police to
enforce. It is a matter of power and control, anyone who thinks it is
not is deluding themselves.
Of course the licensing system does not reduce accidents, it is not
intended to, it is privilege license pure and simple. Just like the
privilege license you need in this small town where I live to engage in
any business. If you think it has anything to do with safety, why is it
just as much of a crime to go through a red light when there is clearly
no traffic whatsoever, as it is when you endanger many others?
graywolf
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Tom Reese wrote:
In Saskatchewan, they instituded a points system recently.
It's actually pretty cool. If you are a good driver, you get good driver
points for every year you don't get an infraction or cause an accident.
If you cause an accident or have an infraction, they take some of those
points away.
Lose enough points and they start charging more for you to renew your
licence.
Lose to many points, and they take away your privledge to get behind the
wheel.
Jeezus, I never said I was opposed to the licensing system. I said that I
object to the government saying it's a privilege for me to drive my car. I
earned the right to drive it by proving my proficiency. Government does not
confer privileges on its citizens. It confers rights.
The licensing system obviously works extremely well. Do you notice how there
are never any accidents and no one ever gets hurt?
Tom Reese
