[Fot] SVRA to require head and neck restraints

[RACER BUD]

Woooohoo!...Go Billy Go!
Racer Bud
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Babcock" <Billb at bnj.com>
To: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
Cc: "'fot'" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] SVRA to require head and neck restraints


> Societal cost is a justification created AFTER a freedom is taken  
> away. The real reason a freedom is taken away is that someone in power  
> doesn't like the choice. Remember Joan Claybrook? Her real reason for  
> all those regulations was that she was a joyless witch.
> 
> Right now there's some birkenstock and drawstring pants wearing,  
> flatulent smug vegan Prius-driving socially conscious green weenie  
> that wants to crush your Triumph because he doesn't like the way you  
> have fun. I say we line them up behind the lawyers and shoot em both  
> with the same bullet. Save some societal cost.
> 
> Just kidding of course. We should hang them instead of shooting them.
> 
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Randall wrote:
> 
>>> Nowadays, whenever I
>>> ride, I wear boots, full leathers, and helmet.
>>
>> Perfectly reasonable.  A friend of mine went so far as to show up at  
>> an
>> anti-helmet-law rally wearing his helmet.  When asked WTF, he  
>> replied "Being
>> opposed to the law doesn't mean I'm stupid!"
>>
>> As I see it, these arguments devolve to whether "freedom" includes  
>> the right
>> to do "stupid" things.  Like ride without a helmet.  Or ride at all  
>> for that
>> matter.
>>
>> Or drive an old car without air bags, anti-lock brakes, side impact
>> protection, crush zones, 5 mph bumpers etc etc.
>>
>> Randall - looking forward to driving a TR3 to work again without so  
>> much as
>> seat belts retrofitted
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