Comments for Seat Belt Laws: The rise of the “Nanny” State at http://www.ldsfreemen.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.ldsfreemen.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:25:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/marc-webster/seat-belt-laws-the-rise-of-the-nanny-state.html#comment-98 What is interesting about this article is how many "sheeple" have disagreed with it's conclusions. I feel the article is pretty watertight and after reading ET Bensons analysis of just laws how could anyone support such a stupid law? I wrote this articel for a english class in college. About 50 percent of the class agreed with it and 50 against. - Marc Thu, 08 May 2008 08:42:10 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/marc-webster/seat-belt-laws-the-rise-of-the-nanny-state.html#comment-12 When the first seat belt law went into effect, the representatives of each State stated that they would NEVER use this law to pull people over for not wearing their seat belts. As I sat in a safety meeting in 1985, a highway patrolman was briefing us on the seatbelt law for company policy. When question time came, I stood up and asked how a law could have been passed that was protecting us from ourselves. He stated that he did not agree with the law but had to enforce it. Twenty plus years later, the representatives decide that money is more important than rights. The additional $10.00 fee for not wearing your seat belt when you have violated some other law of the road was not enough. Our forefathers stated clearly that in many of their works that "no law should ever be enacted to protect us from ourselves". Special Interest Groups are wrong and unnecessary! - Ellen Stanley Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:07:59 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/marc-webster/seat-belt-laws-the-rise-of-the-nanny-state.html#comment-9 I love the way you've pointed out how silly many of our laws are. It's too bad that some people in high places think they can and should decide what is best for us - and want to protect us from ourselves. - Brian R. Mecham Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:34:20 +0100