kThe legislative session is over. We await unknown budgetary confusion or chaos at all levels of government for the foreseeable future.
But somehow, despite all this the legislature and Commissar Pawlenty [thanks to the anonymous commenter who suggested the title – it’s the best I’ve had] managed to agree on something, the totally unneeded bill to make seat belt violations primary offenses.
Although I generally use my seat belt, I am too pro-choice to believe in seat belt legislation and think that any legislator who voted for this bill has given his/her electorate one more reason to reject him/her in future elections.
But, truth be told, I never felt protected by the old law. If I was unbuckled I did not feel that there was really any reason to feel protected by the knowledge that the police had to find some other reason to stop me. There is always a reason.
But the bill [now act] is still meddlesome intervention into other people’s personal decisions.
But somehow, despite all this the legislature and Commissar Pawlenty [thanks to the anonymous commenter who suggested the title – it’s the best I’ve had] managed to agree on something, the totally unneeded bill to make seat belt violations primary offenses.
Although I generally use my seat belt, I am too pro-choice to believe in seat belt legislation and think that any legislator who voted for this bill has given his/her electorate one more reason to reject him/her in future elections.
But, truth be told, I never felt protected by the old law. If I was unbuckled I did not feel that there was really any reason to feel protected by the knowledge that the police had to find some other reason to stop me. There is always a reason.
But the bill [now act] is still meddlesome intervention into other people’s personal decisions.
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