The insurance industry doesn’t want the feds in their house. What makes you think the private citizens will stand for insurance companies backing this kind of legislation. If people want to die for not wearing a seat belt, let them!!
How does someone wearing a seat belt keep the roads safer. I am an adult and can decide for myself whether or not to wear a selt belt. Another way for Big Brother to tell people what to do and make money off of ticket revenues! Police have enough to do without making sure I’m wearing a seat belt. I am supposed to have a freedom of choice. My not wearing a seat belt will kill no one but myself. The legislators really are going awry to get into this kind of stuff.
I believe that it is my choice to wear a seatbelt or not. They shouldn’t be able to tell me that I have to wear it. When this whole thing started, we were told that the seatbelt was going to be a secondary thing. They couldn’t pull us over for that. Now they can. Lies all of it. They brought the law in under false pretenses. Kids are of course good to be buckled in, so they aren’t running around in the car, but as an adult I should be able to make my own decision.
We citizens need to tell the kowtowing, spineless, liberal, nanny-state, do-gooder career politicians to go bugger off and leave their corrupt fingers off our precious gift of liberty. What they do to our nation’s liberty would make any of our Founding Fathers absolutely vomit in disgust today. Seat belt use MUST be a matter of individual choice. I have personally been put in an unsafe situation twice because of the enforcement of this idiotic law (true fact). Seat belt laws are the most visible form of governmental tyranny visible to the average citizen today. Seat belt laws are not about “safety” (as they are touted)- they are about REVENUE ENHANCEMENT. Read up- it’s true. As I say, “IT’S TRULY FRIGHTENING HOW QUICKLY LIBERTY CEDES TO TYRANNY WHEN DONE IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC SAFETY.”
One has to wonder if the insurance industry has a financial stake in primary laws. They tout the regurgitated mantras “seat belts save lives” and “I’ve never unbuckled a dead man”. But in light of the fact that many people have been maimed or killed by forced seat belt use, internal injuries that would not have occurred had the parties not buckled up, you can’t help but believe that certain people are benefitting from police-statelike primary belt laws.
The seat belt zealots love to tout that if it saves one life, it’s worth it. OK, so if it takes one life, is it still worth it?
They also say that those who are killed by fire, submersion or other means while buckled up are 1%. If so, then tell me if you think the Consumer Product Safety Commission would be sitting idly by if a crib they approved for marketing had a reputation for breaking and causing personal injury 1 in every 100 times.
If seat belt laws are so good, why fine people who don’t use them? And why do still large numbers of the population and many state legislators refuse to support them?
Perhaps we and these lawmakers believe we are smarter than the federal government or local nannies to make our own safety decisions. And maybe we think the police have more important matters (can you say “crime”?) to attend to than peeking in vehicles to see if a seat belt is used.
When the seat belt grant money comes to your state, think of it as a bribe from Washington. And then realize that Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution provides a remedy for bribery.
Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta, are you listening?
Why is the Insurance Industry for seatbelt laws? Seatbelts cost the industry millions of dollars a year. All the other people pushing seatbelts profit from them. The only thing I can figure is that you have been had. You need to read your own research reports. Check your files.
Unbelted motorist cost the nation $280 million. Your medical bills are 50% higher and WE bare the cost through increased insurance premiums, taxes and health care.Your employer will have to pay overtime or hire someone else to do your job while you are in the hospital or at home. So why should I have to pay for you not wearing a seat belt? I don\’t care if you kill youself, I just don\’t want to have to pay for it.
I was rather amused by the comment from \”angry citizen\”. There comes a point when the seatbelt scammers are merely pitiful. You notice first that he does not even have the guts to give his name. Then he repeats the same lies which the seatbelt scammers have been telling for years which have long since been proven to be totally false. Unbelted motorists cost the nation nothing and have no effect on taxes, insurance premiums or anything else. This miserable coward says he is \”angry\”. Tell him to come and see me. I will teach him what \”angry\” really means. Stefan Schreier, PhD., Aerospace Engineering, Boise, Idaho.
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The insurance industry doesn’t want the feds in their house. What makes you think the private citizens will stand for insurance companies backing this kind of legislation. If people want to die for not wearing a seat belt, let them!!
How does someone wearing a seat belt keep the roads safer. I am an adult and can decide for myself whether or not to wear a selt belt. Another way for Big Brother to tell people what to do and make money off of ticket revenues! Police have enough to do without making sure I’m wearing a seat belt. I am supposed to have a freedom of choice. My not wearing a seat belt will kill no one but myself. The legislators really are going awry to get into this kind of stuff.
I believe that it is my choice to wear a seatbelt or not. They shouldn’t be able to tell me that I have to wear it. When this whole thing started, we were told that the seatbelt was going to be a secondary thing. They couldn’t pull us over for that. Now they can. Lies all of it. They brought the law in under false pretenses. Kids are of course good to be buckled in, so they aren’t running around in the car, but as an adult I should be able to make my own decision.
We citizens need to tell the kowtowing, spineless, liberal, nanny-state, do-gooder career politicians to go bugger off and leave their corrupt fingers off our precious gift of liberty. What they do to our nation’s liberty would make any of our Founding Fathers absolutely vomit in disgust today. Seat belt use MUST be a matter of individual choice. I have personally been put in an unsafe situation twice because of the enforcement of this idiotic law (true fact). Seat belt laws are the most visible form of governmental tyranny visible to the average citizen today. Seat belt laws are not about “safety” (as they are touted)- they are about REVENUE ENHANCEMENT. Read up- it’s true. As I say, “IT’S TRULY FRIGHTENING HOW QUICKLY LIBERTY CEDES TO TYRANNY WHEN DONE IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC SAFETY.”
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One has to wonder if the insurance industry has a financial stake in primary laws. They tout the regurgitated mantras “seat belts save lives” and “I’ve never unbuckled a dead man”. But in light of the fact that many people have been maimed or killed by forced seat belt use, internal injuries that would not have occurred had the parties not buckled up, you can’t help but believe that certain people are benefitting from police-statelike primary belt laws.
The seat belt zealots love to tout that if it saves one life, it’s worth it. OK, so if it takes one life, is it still worth it?
They also say that those who are killed by fire, submersion or other means while buckled up are 1%. If so, then tell me if you think the Consumer Product Safety Commission would be sitting idly by if a crib they approved for marketing had a reputation for breaking and causing personal injury 1 in every 100 times.
If seat belt laws are so good, why fine people who don’t use them? And why do still large numbers of the population and many state legislators refuse to support them?
Perhaps we and these lawmakers believe we are smarter than the federal government or local nannies to make our own safety decisions. And maybe we think the police have more important matters (can you say “crime”?) to attend to than peeking in vehicles to see if a seat belt is used.
When the seat belt grant money comes to your state, think of it as a bribe from Washington. And then realize that Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution provides a remedy for bribery.
Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta, are you listening?
Why is the Insurance Industry for seatbelt laws? Seatbelts cost the industry millions of dollars a year. All the other people pushing seatbelts profit from them. The only thing I can figure is that you have been had. You need to read your own research reports. Check your files.
Unbelted motorist cost the nation $280 million. Your medical bills are 50% higher and WE bare the cost through increased insurance premiums, taxes and health care.Your employer will have to pay overtime or hire someone else to do your job while you are in the hospital or at home. So why should I have to pay for you not wearing a seat belt? I don\’t care if you kill youself, I just don\’t want to have to pay for it.
I was rather amused by the comment from \”angry citizen\”. There comes a point when the seatbelt scammers are merely pitiful. You notice first that he does not even have the guts to give his name. Then he repeats the same lies which the seatbelt scammers have been telling for years which have long since been proven to be totally false. Unbelted motorists cost the nation nothing and have no effect on taxes, insurance premiums or anything else. This miserable coward says he is \”angry\”. Tell him to come and see me. I will teach him what \”angry\” really means. Stefan Schreier, PhD., Aerospace Engineering, Boise, Idaho.