On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:53:16 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:
I can see your point, but on the other hand (and there's always another
hand), the police *do* sometimes slow down traffic to peek in cars for seat
belt compliance. There are occasional complaints about this, but mostly it
goes by without much whining.

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I always wear my seat belt, as do my passengers. I think it's just
common sense, and don't really understand people who have a problem
with fastening their belts.

On the other hand (as you would say), I think the seat belt law is bad
legislation, and I think that police roadblocks to enforce it is
equally bad law enforcement. Surely their are more important things
for our dedicated and highly trained officers to be doing other than
creating traffic jams and trampling on our constitutional rights in
the process. All of these roadblocks and checkpoints for seat belts,
inspection stickers, DWI screening, etc,, smack of border line police
state tactics and should be seriously discouraged no matter how worthy
the goal. The constitutional prohibitions (actually the Bill of
Rights) against unreasonable search and seizure were put there for a
reason; good reasons. Let's not decide 200 years later that none of
this is important. We walk around as free men today (more or less),
because of the wisdom of our ancestors who learned the hard way.