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I got run off the road by just such an asrehole. Goes ten mph under the limit then runs me off the road when I go around him.
As far as I'm concerned, the rules are not strict enough, and the ones we have are not enforced enough. When my 85-year-old mom kept "bumping" into other drivers, it was up to us kids to clip her wings.
Get a road camera and use it. It might just save you from a wrongful lawsuit.
This noisy dino had a hunch you are one of those quiet Gulchers who have been here longer than me.
Clicked on your moniker to see. Bingo again.
--Ayn Rand, Playboy interview 1964
they call it a "privilege"
this way they can tax you and call it "safety'
You are required to get permission to own and operate any vehicle, tool, or land ownership and use of it has to be licensed and taxed yearly as well as being taxed on any proceeds from use of these items. It is not for safety but for control.
On the other hand, there was a brief push in CA, back in the 1970s, to make people register their horses and get a 'rider license'. I recall pictures with a paper license plate tied to the top of a horse's tail. No one did it, and the attempt died quickly.
I think it is a rebuttable premise that there would be poorer driving and more accidents without licensing than there is with it. Does anyone have data on this?
Jan
You have the right to travel, they own the property and have the right to say how it will be used.
In this case if you want to operate a motor vehicle on the road they demand you be properly licensed, registered, and insured.
You don't want to do that and you have two feet, start walking.
Property taxes are the rent owed for yor use of their property.
Your taxes personally paid for less than the footprint of 1 tire off your car, if you would like to drive on the rest of the roadway you have to play by the rules.
Most of the bozos they pull over already either don't have licenses or they're suspended.
Maybe it's already a movement.
The things that scare me are the people that are not paying attention - texting while driving, etc. They don't even pretend! I've seen several with their phone up in front of their face as they cruise down the interstate at 80+.That or in the left lane doing 50.
"Do no harm" is the chief motivation for limiting "freedom" of action, lest non-caring or ineptitude precipitate an individual to visit harm on others. So, we have insurance to pay off damage inflicted. And what does that do? All those who pay insurance and never need to draw on it because they have no accidents end up paying for the harm done by others. I assume that insurance plans are voluntary--oh, no, the government demands people to have all kinds of insurance. And so the system is established that controls people in all their actions by rules drawn up by the rulers. Who empowers the rulers? The self-appointed caretakers of the rest of us sheep.
"Political power comes from the end of a gun"
Mao Zedong
- tyrants creed
It's time to show the tyrants the might of people who desire freedom.
Stop doing business with those who support DC power. Peacefully kill them off.
Make the end of AS non-fiction.
From your lips to tens of millions of ears!
just like other laws on the books, the law has become distorted with court rulings placing normal 'freedom of movement' activity in the same category as commercial activity.
Commercial vehicle code....the law has been misconstrued to mean everyone operating a 'vehicle' or 'mode of transportation' on a public highway to be engaged in commercial commerce, therefor they must have a license, registration, insurance etc. Judges likely need to get back to the original constitution as written by those old dumb white guys. ... but don't hold your breath.
Whereas YOU have a right as a PERSON to move your CONVEYANCE over a road. Especially a state/city road. (Not on a turnpike, likely).
And I've seen the recordings where the police let them go.
I know that many of the old tractors had no license plates. But drove on the roads all the time. (More politely than 99% of the city folks).
But I don't pretend to know the laws well enough to inform
Unless you aren't a citizen. (not at all disagreeing, just pointing out....) In the US, t's not because you are a person but because you are a citizen or otherwise legally inside the country.
Yesterday we drove through ElPaso to get from Tucson to our (soon to be sold) home in DFW. Surprised to see a notation from our GPS that there was "stopped traffic ahead." I asked hubs to find me a way around, but there wasn't one. She told me way too late. I figured we were in for a couple hours' wait while they scraped people off the pavement.
Turns out it wasn't a wreck - it was a check to see whether we were legally in the US. Remember that tomorrow, May 11, Title 42 goes away and people from Mexico are amassing at the border, hoping to get through.
They were checking, I suppose, to make sure that some already hadn't (though of course we already know they have.)
I'm 73 and don't recall having to prove anything like that on the roads before. Of course I do have to have proper ID to fly, so maybe it's not as unusual as I thought, but I don't think I've flown since 2017. And may never again if I can manage it.
Too much to ask to just simply NOT allow them to cross, but it wasn't this guy's decision. Also, to your point about why are they harassing US Citizens....of course, they don't know who is which. But another "to your point," looking at my driver license isn't going to tell him whether I am legal or not, either.
Rights and responsibilities do not depend on "what's happening" at the time (that's what has gotten us into a bunch of this mess), so again, I'm just reporting. BTW I did see in one of the cars ahead of me, the border agent actually reach out and look at/touch someone's document (no idea what it was). In the next 3 cars, he was literally leaning back, just casually perusing the occupants (I suppose they also had their documents ready) with- of course - impenetrable sunglasses on.
When we arrived at the point, he had a "stop stick" in his hand to raise if he so chose. He didn't so choose with us...just nodded and said to proceed.
Home now, until next trip, and I just hope I don't die of tiredness before we get moved! :-) I'm too old for this crap.
It's the same reason we control air traffic: it's a matter of coordination in order to provide safety. We can certainly argue about the way such coordination is organized and implemented, but I don't think anyone is going to make the case that such order is unnecessary.
Not to keep themselves safe (that's their problem), but to keep ME and my family safe from their incompetence. That's the idea anyway, even though it doesn't always work that way.
My MIL is 90 and literally not competent to drive, but she managed to talk the (rural area) DPS into giving her a license last September. No one in the family would call and report her. Fortunately, we moved her to a "independent living" center in a medium-sized town, and her grandson managed to talk her into giving her car to one of the teen great-grands. She has no business being on the road as anything but a passenger, ever again.
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