by Jonathan Clayton

Created on: August 01, 2009

The short and direct answer to this question is. Yes!

Now that I've made this statement, let me explain my position if I may. I've long been an advocate that seat belt's save life's. Every study that has been completed, whether federally sponsored or otherwise supports this conclusion. But this is not the title of this topic. This article is strictly about whether seat belt law's in their current form, are a violation of individual rights. Again the answer is, yes they do!

Now obviously I don't know where most of you currently reside but in the state of Missouri, they actually set up roadblocks to check to see if you're wearing your seat belt. More than that, about a mile or so on either side of their roadblock, they actually have State troopers non-chalantly hidden on the nearest hillside with a digital camera attached to their binoculars taking your picture. Just in case you may decide to tell the officer a little white lie stating you were in fact wearing your seat belt. This way they can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that you were not in fact wearing your seat belt. I'll let you digest that one for a moment, and then you decide.

If someone is hidden on a hillside taking a picture of you and everyone else inside the car I bought, paid for, and now own. Plus they charge me a property tax on said vehicle each and every year. That my friends is an invasion of privacy, and that is according to the law! Interesting isn't it.

In every single vehicle I own or ride in as well as everyone else in the vehicle, alway's wear their seat belt's but I, as well as just about every single person I know personally feel thats it's a violation of our civil and personal rights to be forced to wear this device against our wishes! The reason for this very righteous feeling is because it's our decision whether or not to wear that seat belt in the first place.

Now most of the article's and news broadcast we see and hear on a daily basis absolutely advocate the wearing of said seat belt's, strictly because it has been proven to save live's. But then it inevitably gets into the politics of this issue, and as we all know, it's about the state or federal revenue that's created by enforcing this law, and that's the bottom line here. Revenue!. I'm absolutely sure that everyone has heard all that particular rhetoric that they care to listen to. I feel exactly the same way.

So the bottom line here? Any law that is passed without the vote of the taxpayer, is not constitutional, and if you're like me and every other taxpayer, I can't remember ever being asked to vote or if it was a violation of my rights to be forced to wear a seat belt. Can you?

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