“The Senate Energy, Infrastructure and Transportation, voted at 10:30 this morning 4 in favor 2 opposed to SB116,” writes Janine Hansen of Nevada Families.
“SB116 makes not wearing a seat belt a primary offense,” Ms. Hansen explains, “which means the police can stop you at any time for any reason to see if you are wearing your seat belt. The current law prohibits the issuance of a citation for failure to wear a safety belt unless the vehicle is stopped or the person is arrested for another offense. By removing this provision, this bill allows the issuance of a citation for not wearing a seat belt even if there is no other violation. We are moving towards a police state.”
Voting to move Nevada ever closer to a police state were moderate Republican Sens. Randolph Townsend and Dennis Nolan. Conservative Republican Sen. Barbara Cegavske cast the lone GOP vote for continued individual liberty and freedom. You can thank her via email at: bcegavske@sen.state.nv.us
Oh, what a surprise, Randolph Townsend betraying us, again!
If you look deeper into this fascism you will probably be told that our legislature “Has” to pass it, or Nevada will lose federal highway funds.
“The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.”
– John Locke
When did we delegate the authority to routinely commit black-mail to the Fed. Gov.?
Who do I get to black-mail with impunity?
What is the exact price the legislature is intent on selling us out for this time?
“Lost Highway Funding” is the same excuse used to justify the original mandatory seat belt law, it is an endlessly used club the Fed. uses to beat states into submission for any issue they want to force on the states.
The real beneficiaries of this &$#@! are the private insurance companies, it is being done at their behest.
The counties are no doubt salivating at the enhanced ticket revenue as well.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. (Belt ticket is $67.00!)
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. (Unless highway funding is an issue, then the Fed. Gov. reigns supreme!)
“I don’t believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.” – Ronald Reagan
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt
“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.”
– John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty” 1859
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words ‘no’ and ‘not’ employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.” –Edmund A. Opitz
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. –Thomas Jefferson